Online Safety

At St James' Online Safety is an important part of keeping our children safe and happy within school. In school, we have extensive security measures in place to help safeguard pupils from any potentially unsuitable materials. These are monitored regularly by senior leaders

How we keep children safe online in school:

At St James', we employ a three-step approach to keeping children safe online:

1. Education
2. Monitoring
3. Filtering

Education

We believe it is important we teach our children how to live in their digital world safely. This involves discrete lessons about online safety as well as integration whenever technology is used and specific themed days. We make sure our children know what to do if they come across something that upsets or worries them. We teach our children to take care in what they post online and to think about the impact posts online might have on others and themselves, both now and in the future.

Monitoring

We employ a DfE certified solution for monitoring internet usage in school. StudentKeeper is a robust application that monitors usage in real-time, alerting senior leaders to searches that cause concern. This enables us to follow-up with children the reasons for their searches and take further action if necessary.

Filtering

Our filtering system ensures that most inappropriate websties are blocked by default. Blocked websites are recorded and screened. Further action is then taken if necessary.

Any Online Safety incidents that occur are recorded and managed by the Online Safety leaders within school and dealt with immediately. Our Online Safety Champions are an integral part of monitoring, identifying concerns and educating others about staying safe online.

Online Safety Leaders

Safeguarding Governor - Mrs. E. Holmes & Mrs. C. Coombes
Designated Safeguarding Leader - Ms. V. Moore
Online Safety Leader- Mr. C. Forshaw
Deputy Safeguarding Leader - Mrs. S. Rehman

Internet Safety for Parents

From here you can access a range of information, guidance and resources to be better informed about online safety.

For support on Online Safety, click here to view an advice leaflet.

Know IT All for Parents

This is a unique, interactive e-safety guide for parents and carers, produced by Childnet International.

It's designed to really help you as a parent or carer keep up to date with how children are using the internet, and support them in using these new exciting services safely and responsibly.

Think U Know

This is a very detailed website intended for parents and carers, produced by Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP).

It's designed to help you find the latest information on the sites your child might like to visit and new technology. 

This is where you can report online abuse to CEOP.

CBBC Stay Safe

This website, created by the BBC, provides children with useful tips, informative vlogs and games to explore about staying safe online.

Learn how to stay safe online the fun way with Hacker and Dodge, the Dixi crew, Bobby Lockwood, the Horrible Histories gang and more!

DfE Advice on Cyberbullying

This document, published by the Department of Education, is designed for parents and carers to understand more about cyberbullying. It provides advice and information about how you can protect your child from cyberbullying and how to tackle it if it happens.