eSafety at our school

eSafety, or electronic safety, is an issue which affects us all . Keeping our children safe, whether it be in the real world or the online, digital world will always remain a priority. Children at our school   use the Internet on a regular basis as part of their learning. Technology enhances learning, and we aim to ensure pupils use it constructively, by encouraging responsible online  behaviour.  In school, we use a  filtering  system  to prevent children  accessing  inappropriate sites. eSafety is also part of our curriculum teaching and we have Digital Leaders who are consistently reinforcing and championing eSafety amongst their peers in classrooms.  We now also have an eSafety Committee,  ensuring that Governors, parents and all stakeholders in the school community have an overview of how eSafety is being delivered and managed within school.

As a school we have undertaken a self review of our eSafety using the SWGfL (South West Grid for Learning) 360 Degree Safe tool at 
www.360safe.org.uk. This will continue to impact on our areas for development to ensure that all of our children are well informed and educated to  work online in a digital world.  We have also bought into a comprehensive suite of resources from the SWGfL to support our school community  called Boost+. We feel the importance of working with parents  to keep our children safe both in and out of school is extremely important and  at home  children sometimes can be given unsupervised access to the Internet.  This, potentially, allows them to access all kinds of society (both good and bad) and bring them virtually into their homes.