Al-Ashraf Secondary School for Girls will be actively taking part in Safer Internet Day on 11th February 2025 with a whole school assembly, forming the basis for class discussions and activities throughout the day.
Safer Internet Day is celebrated globally in February each year to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people.
Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre, the celebration sees hundreds of organisations unite to raise awareness of online safety issues and run events and activities right across the UK, of which Al-Ashraf Secondary School for Girls is proud to be a part of.
This year’s theme, “Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online,” highlights the importance of raising awareness of online scams and ensuring that young people have the skills to navigate the digital world safely.
AI-powered scams are becoming increasingly common, posing new risks to both students and parents. Fraudsters can use AI to create realistic deepfake videos, voice-cloned messages, and highly convincing phishing emails, making scams harder to detect. In a school setting, this could mean fake emails appearing to be from the headteacher or voice-cloned phone calls impersonating parents or staff.
To help your child stay safe online, we encourage you to explore the resources below to better understand these emerging threats and have open discussions with your child about recognising and avoiding scams.
The UK Safer Internet Centre as well as our school website offer a variety of resources that can help guide you and your child in navigating the online world safely.
Below are some helpful links:
Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online- tips (11–14-year-olds):
https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2025/tips-for-11-14s
Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online- tips for parents and carers:
https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2025/tips-for-parents-and-carers
The 4 Cs of online safety: online safety risk for children
Safeguarding and the well-being of pupils is a hugely important aspect of our school and keeping children safe is a key priority. Our school filtering systems only allow access to age-appropriate content that is suitable for learning. We use Securly, a filtering and monitoring system designed by cyberdistribution.co.uk. Securly Filter is one of a suite of school focused safety products designed to make it seamless for schools to meet their student safety obligations. Specifically, Securly Filter meets the filtering technical requirements, and Securly Aware and Securly Classroom help schools meet their KCSIE 2023 monitoring obligations, in line with the statutory guidance from the DfE.
How Securly Helps Schools, Meet KCSIE Filtering Guidance.
This monitoring is primarily designed to enable us to provide timely pastoral support to anyone who may use the internet to search for inappropriate or malicious content or for self-harm when using a school computer.
E-Safety Topics Covered in Computer Science
Info & Advice for Parents & Carers
South Gloucestershire Children's Partnership - For children:
South Gloucestershire Children's Partnership - For parents/carers:
Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning
GHLL - Digital Resilience Toolkit for parents
NSPCC - Inappropriate/explicit content (pornography) - guide for parents/carers
NSPCC - Online gaming - guide for parents/carers
Internet Matters - Parental controls guide
Internet Matters - Blocking and filtering content guide
Internet Matters - Privacy and identity theft - guidance for parents/carers
Internet Matters - Cyberbullying - guidance for parents/carers
Internet Matters - Radicalisation - guidance for parents/carers
Internet Matters - Sexting - guidance for parents/carers
Internet Matters - Online grooming - guidance for parents/carers
Internet Matters - Fake news - guidance for parents/carers
South Gloucestershire Council - online safety for young people
UK Safer Internet Centre - YouTube Restricted mode (parents' guide)
National Online Safety - guides for parents/carers (various apps)
ThinkUKnow - guidance for young people
Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust
Shout - supporting young people with their mental health
Childline - guidance for young people
UK Safer Internet Centre (helpline)
https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2024
Al-Ashraf Secondary School for Girls will be actively taking part in Safer Internet Day 2024 with a whole school assembly, forming the basis for class discussions and activities throughout the day.
Safer Internet Day is celebrated globally in February each year to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people.
Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre the celebration sees hundreds of organisations unite to raise awareness of online safety issues and run events and activities right across the UK, of which Al-Ashraf Secondary School for Girls is proud to be a part of.
To make the most of the internet, children need to make smart decisions. Be Internet Legends empowers younger children to use the web safely and wisely, so they can be confident explorers of the online world.
https://beinternetlegends.withgoogle.com/en_uk
The Department for Education has written to schools regarding a government resource available to schools and parents to support pupils against extremism.
The Educate Against Hate (educateagainsthate.com) provides teachers, school leaders and parents with practical advice on protecting children from extremism and radicalisation. It includes information on the signs of radicalisation, what to do if you have a concern and how to develop resilience against radicalisation.
Posted: October 2018
At Al-Ashraf we empower children with the understanding and knowledge of how to keep themselves safe online using the SMART rules:
There are also things you could try at home to help to ensure your child stays safe online.
Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter continue to grow in terms of its popularity especially with teenagers.
Please click on the links below which aim to provide support regarding a range of key topics in relation to social networking.
This link contains a short helpful video for each of the four main internet providers (BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media) explaining how to activate the free parental controls:
http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and-resources/parents-and-carers/parental-controls
It is also advisable to check that children are using your wireless connection and not that of a neighbour as these parental controls only apply to your own wireless connection.
For help setting up parental controls on various devices,click on the relevant links:
iPad - iPod Touch - iPhone - Blackberry - Xbox - PlayStation - Wii
Know the age ratings for games and apps and use https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ to review the content of these games/apps.
Use the search option to type in the name of the game or app.
Also be aware that many games can also be played online.
For more information on online gaming please follow this link
Discuss with your child about how they use the internet and what they would do if they have any issues.
We encourage children to tell a trusted adult if they are experiencing cyber bullying; if they find inappropriate content or if they are unsure of something online.
If you do need to report inappropriate behaviour, it can be done through this website - http://www.ceop.police.uk/
Discuss social media with your child.
We teach children in school that once something is posted online it can stay there forever.
A useful video about social media to watch with children as a starting point can be found here
For more information about young people and social networking please follow this link
Try to ensure when children are using devices, laptops and computers that they are in an area of the house where you can walk by and see what your child is using.
This will help to keep you aware of how your child is using the internet and may help to keep open the lines of communication about using the internet safely.
