Online Safety is an integral part of teaching and learning at Weddington Primary School.
From Foundation Stage to Year 6, children regularly receive lessons in Online Safety.
It is important to be able to enjoy using the internet, it is a fantastic source of information, fun and friendship.
Below you will find lots of fantastic links to help you with keeping yourself and your children safe online.
If you have been a victim of sexual online abuse or you're worried this is happening to someone you know, let CEOP know safely and securely by clicking below.
It's never too early to teach your children to be kind, thoughtful and respectful.
Remind them, when they post online, make sure the post is kind, that they have thought about how people will feel or react to the post and most importantly to respect themselves and others.
This is a great basis to make the internet and truly enriching, enjoyable experience.
- Does your child love to play with Lego?
- Would you like to have more conversations about their online use but you don't know where to start?
- Would you like to spend some time playing with your children while they learn how to use the internet responsibly and safely?
If so, check out the 3 files below for some great activities for you to complete with your children.
Lego have created these activities so you can buy the special blocks but also encourage putting their imaginations to work by creating their own versions of the characters.
Throughout the fun activities, the children (and possibly you too) will learn loads about staying safe and happy online.
Many of our children love to play online games. It can be a great way for them to have some down time and socialise with their friends; promoting problem solving, team work and encouraging healthy competition, gaming is certainly not something to be banned.
However, as with most online activities, there are associated risks and areas for concern, the newest issue being that children are taking part in online gambling from a young age.
Parent Zone have put together the following resources to make sure you know how to keep your children safe from this newest risk, whilst still enabling them to play the games they love.
Parent Zone and GambleAware have partnered up to help families learn about the gambling-like risks children may face when playing online games - and simple p...
Parent Zone and GambleAware have partnered up to help families learn about the gambling-like risks children may face when playing online games - and simple p...
The thought of your children being online can be pretty daunting.
Do you understand the kind of things they might be doing? Do you know how to keep them safe and when to act?
Watch this informative video which has been created by European Schoolnet, together with Liberty Global, to help educate parents on children's safety online.
Did you know that during lockdown 62% of children watched happy and positive films to cheer themselves up?
The staggering volume of content that children have access to in their pocket means that they have to make choices every day about what they view.
Without being empowered with the knowledge and tools to make the right decisions for themselves, navigating this new world of content can be a tricky thing to do.
The British Board of Film Classification have been rating content for more than 100 years, so are well-placed to help families choose what's right for them and avoid what's not.
They've just launched two new websites packed with up-to-date resources designed to support pupils and families when viewing content online and offline.
Parents' Guide: https://indd.adobe.com/view/edb6c04a-b984-4cd4-ab93-79ea28ac8298
'Rate a Trailer' game: https://www.cbbfc.co.uk/film-ratings/rate-a-trailer
Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.uk.bbfc.android#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY28udWsuYmJmYy5hbmRyb2lkIl0.
Apple app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bbfc/id417274466?ls=1
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
Our cookies ensure you get the best experience on our website.
Please make your choice!
Some cookies are necessary in order to make this website function correctly. These are set by default and whilst you can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, some functionality such as being able to log in to the website will not work if you do this. The necessary cookies set on this website are as follows:
A 'sessionid' token is required for logging in to the website and a 'crfstoken' token is used to prevent cross site request forgery. An 'alertDismissed' token is used to prevent certain alerts from re-appearing if they have been dismissed.
We use Matomo cookies to improve the website performance by capturing information such as browser and device types. The data from this cookie is anonymised.
Cookies are used to help distinguish between humans and bots on contact forms on this website.
A cookie is used to store your cookie preferences for this website.
Cookies that are not necessary to make the website work, but which enable additional functionality, can also be set. By default these cookies are disabled, but you can choose to enable them below: