We are working with National Online Safety to ensure that parents are fully aware of the platforms and apps their children are using. Please ensure that you always check the age restrictions. You will find the most up to date guides for social media apps and platforms that your children may want to use on the National Online Safety website.
Click on the National Online Safety Website button below to find out more information about each app and to download the Parents useful tips to help keep children safe.
The school app is also used to sent out useful guidance about Online Safety, view all previous app updates below.
As part of their #WakeUpWednesday campaign, NOS created a free 'conversation starter' poster for parents & carers about online safety. The guide includes 7 questions to get 'the conversation' going in relation to your child's internet usage. Engaging in regular, two-way communication with children about online activities is a really important way of building trust and highlighting the dangers they are exposed to every day. The link to this poster on Facebook is: https://www.facebook.com/NationalOnlineSafety/photos/a.1681508315488685/1914184988887682/?type=3&theater
National Online Safety have teamed up with their teacher friends, Dan and Sam from ‘Musicalternative’, to bring you this jolly online safety jingle for parents! Please watch via the link below: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8CtHpszi8&feature=youtu.be
We have received a very helpful Parent Guide for YouTube from National Online Safety. Please follow the link to view the guide. Please note that the legal age for YouTube is actually 13 years old.
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Follow the link below to view the Parent's Guide on Screen Addiction.. an interesting read!
https://nationalonlinesafety.com/resources/platform-guides/screen-addiction-guide-for-parents/
At St James' Lanehead we take online safety very seriously. We are working with National Online Safety to ensure that parents are fully aware of the platforms and apps their children are using. Please follow the link below for guidance on YouTube for all parents. https://nationalonlinesafety.com/resources/platform-guides/youtube-guide-for-parents/
Be Kind Online - Please follow the link to view a useful guide to Online Bullying. https://nationalonlinesafety.com/resources/platform-guides/what-children-need-to-know-about-online-bullying/
It can be very difficult to protect our children from the many threats online, this handy guide will help to set your child’s device up safely.
