Online Safety
At Nields we are fully committed to keeping our pupils and staff safe when online and acknowledge this in our school safeguarding procedures.
As a community, we value the opportunities offered by the internet and other technologies used in everyday life but at the same time, we educate our children about the risks and highlight the steps we need to take to avoid them both in and out of school.
Our Online Safety Lead is Mr J Toon, who works in close partnership with the Leadership team and all school staff. As staff, we ensure that online safety awareness is an integral part of our computing curriculum in classes as well as in cross-curricular lessons and assemblies.
Our expectations for responsible and appropriate conduct are set out in our Acceptable Use Policies (AUP), which we expect all staff and pupils to follow. Every child takes the AUP home to read with parents and without parental signatures, children are not permitted to use the internet unsupervised.
If you have any questions or concerns relating to online safety, please contact the school office.
(Please note that the information and links on this page are currently being checked and updated).
The internet is constantly changing, and it can be hard to keep up with the latest apps and trends. It can be particularly tricky when dealing with children aged 8-12, when they start doing more online, becoming more independent and using different devices. Most people use the internet daily for different reasons, such as finding out information, communication, online shopping or entertainment - the list is endless. However, children particularly enjoy using it. So, we need to ensure that we keep our children safe and must teach them how to be safe on the Internet. |
For AGE RESTRICTIONS in place for apps and games please click on the image below:
The NSPCC have highlighted the TWITCH app which you can find out more about by clicking the image below.
Other very useful sites are: