Online Safety

Follow this link to the latest download of Vodafone’s digital parenting magazine.  It has a useful round up of a number of online safety issues, focusing particularly on what the children themselves are talking about. https://www.flipsnack.com/FA7569CC5A8/digital-parenting-by-vodafone-2021-edition/full-view.html​

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Online Safety

Cast your minds back and you may remember Safer Internet Day back in February this year.  We were really pleased with the engagement from our children and now Safer Internet UK have published an impact report assessing how it has helped children’s engagement nationally.  This is worth a read and has ideas for going forward. […]

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Online Safety: Among Us

Online Safety “Among us” Dear Parents, Many of you will be aware that the game ​Among Us is rapidly gaining in popularity ‘among’ our children.  It has some great positives namely that it can actually encourage communication skills and teamwork online as the players work together to identify an imposter in their “crew”.  However, you should make […]

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Online Safety: Help from 2Simple

Our PurpleMash provider 2Simple has released an incredibly helpful parent guide to online safety in conjunction with Safer Internet Day 2021. This will really help you develop your children’s digital literacy in light of diminishing levels of trust in the infoscape. Please download using the link below and use it with your children over the […]

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Online Safety: Gaming or Gambling

Digital safety is increasingly crossing into more and more areas of mental health and well being.  GambleAware, the UK’s leading gambling support network, have highlighted how popular online games have increasingly addictive gambling functions such as lock boxes. Follow the link below and use the resources to help explore the issue with your children in […]

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Mobile Phones – Head Teacher Update

Wednesday 13th March 2019 Dear Parents, It has been brought to my attention that pupils at St Catherine’s particularly in Year 5 and 6 have been bringing  their internet/camera enabled phones to school. Some have been handing them into the office in a zipped bag or pencil case some have been keeping them in their […]

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Safer Internet Day 2019: Parent Resources

Attached are some of the fantastic resources from Safer Internet UK that can be used at home with your children. https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/2019 SID2019 Parents and Carers – Conversation Starters SID2019 Parents and Carers – Fun Things To Do SID2019 Parents and Carers – Get Involved SID2019 Parents and Carers – Information and Online Resources SID2019 Parents […]

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