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Online Safety

Children at Eastover use the Internet on a regular basis as part of their learning. In school, we have regular 'e-safety' activities to remind children of the importance of keeping themselves safe online. We are also working towards our 360 Degree Safe accreditation.

At home, many children are often given unsupervised access to the Internet. This, potentially, allows them to access all kinds of society (both good and bad) and bring them into their homes.

More and more parents are expressing concern about their children’s safety online. The links and resources below have lots of practical advice, but if you would like further help, please contact any member of the safeguarding team. We would be glad to offer a parent workshop if there was enough interest.

Useful tips, links & resources: 
Innocent Searching campaign

Innocent searches online can lead to not-so-innocent results, but parental controls can help keep your child safe. For help and guidance on parental controls see: Link to NSPCC website article "Parental controls - get advice on setting up parental controls to help keep your child safe online"

Share Aware

Help your child stay safe on social networks, apps and games. This includes a parent’s guide to talking to your child about what to share online, videos to support this, advice on what children use social networks for, age guidance and what to look out for: Link to NSPCC Keeping Children Safe Online

Online Games

Online games can be a great way for children and young people to keep busy and stay in touch with friends and family, but it’s important that they play safely. Link to NSPCC website article "Online games - understand the risks and get advice to help children play online games safely"

Minecraft:

Link to NSPCC blog "Is Minecraft safe for children?"

Link to Internet Matters "What is Minecraft? What parents need to know"

Roblox: 

Link to NSPCC "Is Roblox safe for my child?"

Link to Internet Matters "What is Roblox? Parents' guide to playing safely"

Fortnite:

Link to Internet Matters "What is Fortnite? Safety guide for parents"

Safer Internet Day 2025

Safer Internet Day is the UK’s biggest celebration of online safety. Each year it covers an online issue or theme that speaks about the things young people are seeing and experiencing online. Created in consultation with young people across the UK, this year Safer Internet Day will be focusing on the issue of scams online and for young people, how to protect themselves and others, as well as what support is available to them. 

Safer Internet Day 2025 took place on the 11th February 2025, with celebrations and learning based around the theme 'Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online‘. Link to UK Safer Internet Centre: Safer Internet Day 2025