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Safer Internet Day 2024

The Safer Internet Day is held in over 170 countries in the month of February, every year. The main aim to call on people across the world to work together in making the internet a safe and better place for all, but especially young people.

This year's theme is 'All about change online'.

The latest development that has taken the internet world by storm is the evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

We as educators should be aware of the implications of using AI in education. Whilst there are many advantages of using AI in education, there also many disadvantages especially when it comes to safeguarding our pupils.

ChatGPT and Beyond: How to Handle AI in Schools | Common Sense Education

AI in schools: will it change education? | Tes

AI and Online Safeguarding


The 4 Cs of online safety: online safety risk for children

The 4 Cs of online safety: online safety risk for children


Filtering & Monitoring

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

E-Safety Topics Covered in Computer Science


Supporting Young People Online

Info & Advice for Parents & Carers


E-Safety

Social Networking, Cyberbullying & Online Gaming, Grooming & Radicalisation, Internet Dangers & Cybercrime

E-Safety-KO


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 - Parental Controls

NSPCC - Inappropriate/explicit content (pornography) - guide for parents/carers

NSPCC - Online gaming - guide for parents/carers

Internet Matters - Apps guide

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

Get Safe Online

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)

CEOP (make a report)


Safer Internet Day 2024

6th February 2024

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.


Be Internet Legends

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


Educate Against Hate

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


SMART

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 Media/Networking

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.

Set up parental controls on devices and through your internet provider.

Internet providers

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.

Devices

For help setting up parental controls on various devices,click on the relevant links:

iPad -  iPod Touch - iPhone - Blackberry - Xbox - PlayStation - Wii

Age Ratings

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

Discussions with your Children

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

Safe Locations in the House

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.

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