Online Safety
At KCA our staff are committed to ensuring that our children develop digital resilience to help them stay safe online. Online safety is a core part of safeguarding; as such it is everyone’s job at King’s Cross Academy.
We have regular e-safety lessons for children detailing in an age-appropriate way how they can keep safe online. Training is organised for both staff, parents and carers. As a school, we regularly communicate with our parent and carer community to provide advice and updates on online safety.
In school, we carefully filter and monitor content to ensure that your child is kept safe online. At home, e-safety is a parental responsibility and we are happy to provide general advice on how this can be achieved.
If you have any concern please contact Mrs Baxter, our designated safeguarding lead or Mr Reedie our digital learning lead.
KCA Recommended Online Safety Resources
- Keep the computer in a family area.
- Use ‘child lock’ or filter settings on your Web browser to help prevent unsuitable site access by your child.
- Talk to your child about using a strong password for every one of their online accounts.
- Regularly supervise the sites your child is visiting.
- Encourage your child to use their ‘Favourites’ list to access the sites you have approved to prevent accidental entry to unsuitable sites.
- Educate yourself on appropriate age rating of social media sites before allowing your child to access them. This website link, will be able to support with this: https://www.openvieweducation.co.uk/social-media-age-ratings/
- Talk to your child about the tools and strategies they should use to deal with issues they may face online, such as cyber bullying or seeing inappropriate content.
- Ensure your child is secure on where and how to report an online issue that they may face.
- Agree with older children in the home what sites they are allowed to access.
- Keep all personal details private.
- Above all, talk to your child about things online you can enjoy together and ways to stay involved in their digital world.
- Here are some collated resources by our Online Safety partner in Camden: https://padlet.com/m_rebelo/qmnunklwbyz41c5e
- Finally, Do visit parentsafe.lgfl.net to find out more and please share via your communication channels to get the word out to as many parents / carers as possible: https://twitter.com/LGfLDigiSafe/status/1381911893363847169 and stay up to date with current Safeguarding with LGfL spotlight on safeguarding
Digital 5 a Day:
A reminder of the Children’s Commissioner’s work on the ‘Digital 5 a Day’. Much like having a healthy diet by eating 5 pieces of fruit and vegetables a day it is important to have a healthy digital diet. In order to do this you can follow these 5 simple steps:
- Connect
- Be active
- Get creative
- Give to others
- Be Mindful