Online Safety

Children love using technology and learning to navigate websites, online games, consoles, and touch screen technology like such as iPads and smart phones and are doing so from an increasingly younger age.

We know that children need support in using technology safely, and to get the best out of using the internet, which poses many advantages but also has some risks attached. At Rockwood we closely monitor children's use of technology and support them at all times to access it safely.

We take steps in school to help protect your child in the following ways:

Information to support parents

Making sure your child is safe while accessing the internet can be daunting for parents and carers.  Listed below are websites that provide lots of useful information and tips that you can put into place at home, to help keep our youngest children safe online. For further guidance please click here to read parent online safety support guide.

Click on the icons to access the webpages.

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Advice and information for parents and carers to help support children in safe and responsible use of the internet and all about the potential dangers on interactive services online like chat, IM, online games, email and on mobiles.  This includes the information previously held on The Kid Smart website.

 

uk safer internet centre 

The Parents' Guide to Technology from the UK Safer Internet Centre has been created to answer these questions and introduce some of the most popular devices, highlighting the safety tools available and empowering parents with the knowledge they need to support their children to use these technologies safely and responsibly.

Digital citizenship, online safety & civility

 

Hacker on a computer.

Test your internet safety knowledge with Hacker, listen to some Stay Safe songs with Helen Skelton, News Kids On the Block and Bobby Lockwood and get some tips from the Horrible Histories gang.