ONLINE SAFETY FOR PARENTS
At Evendons Primary School we take the online safety of our children seriously. Our On this page you will find several helpful documents with advice on keeping your children safe online, we’d recommend taking a look. If you have any further questions or concerns please contact your child’s class teacher, our Online Safety Lead Fran Hurdle or our Headteacher and Designated Safeguarding Lead Stacey Read.
Montoring and Filtration Systems
At Evendons we use the following systems to ensure our children are safe when they are using computers and are online:
- The schools firewall and web filtering solution is all provided by LGFL
- All client machines and servers have Sophos Central Anti Virus installed.
- The schools email platform is provided by Google which covered by it own internal spam protection platform.
- The schools backup solution is Arcserve which is provided by Dataspire.
National Online Safety Training for Parents
We are delighted to offer ‘National Online Safety’ courses for all our families, free of charge, as part of our work with this organisation.
The courses are up-to-date and relevant for all our young people, and indeed for their families, as we work to keep them safe online. As our children grow in understanding and experience of online material, it’s important that our understanding grows alongside theirs so that we each have the knowledge necessary to ensure their experience is positive, safe, and empowering. To create your account, please follow – National Online Safety for more helpful parent guides and videos.
Once registered, some of the videos we recommend are:
An Introduction to Online Safety for Parents of Children Aged 4-7 (4 minutes)
An Introduction to Online Safety for Parents of Children Aged 7-11 (5 minutes)
For your convenience, we have added some popular guides below:
7 conversation starters about online safety
12 Social Media online safety tips for new devices
12 Top Tips to get smart about the devices in your home
advice for parents online safety 1
Conversation Starters Parents and Carers Guide
Engaging Parents Online Safety
Facebook Messenger Parents Guide
Fortnite Chapter 2 Parents Guide
Keeping Under Fives Safe Online v2
Online safety tips for children
Screen Addiction Parents Guide
Supporting childrens mental health
Top Tips for remote learning Childrens Guide
Top Tips for remote learning Parents Guide
What children need to know about online bullying
What Parents & Carers need to know about Amazon Alexa
What Parents & Carers need to know about Age-Inappropriate content
What Parents & Carers need to know about Squid Game
What you need to know about Voice Activated Searching