Hermitage Primary School
Online Safety
Online Safety for Parents
Online Safety Newsletters
To support parents, we now have a monthly Online Safety Newsletter to keep you up to date on the latest safety news. This contains lots of helpful tips and advice for keeping your children safe at home. We will email the newsletter to parents each month.
Please find our previous online safety newsletters at the bottom of this page.
Wake Up Wednesday
Each week, we will share 'Wake Up Wednesday' posts to our social media to support our families.
Wake up Wednesday is a campaign from National Online Safety that supports parents, carers and educators in helping children stay safe, healthy and informed in the digital world.
The posters offer valuable guidance, practical tips and important reminders across a wide range of online safety topics. Each one highlights key information in a clear and accessible way, helping parents and carers stay up to date with the latest online trends, risks and issues that children may come across. They are a useful resource for supporting conversations at home and helping children navigate the digital world safely.
Cyberbullying
www.wizcase.com/blog/a-comprehensive-cyberbullying-guide-for-parents/
Safer Internet Day
In addition to our Computing and PSHE, which teach children how to stay safe online, each year we celebrate Safer Internet Day in school.
This year for Safer Internet Day, our local PSCO visited us. She delivered special Online Safety assemblies for all classes. We learnt about keeping our information and settings private and making the grown-ups who look after us, know what we are doing online.
We agreed that it isn't safe to talk to strangers either in person or online and that we definitely should not agree to meet up with people we only know online.
Managing Screen Time
Click the links below for tips on managing screen time for different age groups:
·Balancing screen time – top tips (0-5 years old)
·Balancing screen time - top tips (5-7 year olds)
·Balancing screen time - top tips (7-11 year olds)
Helpful Links
·Skips Safety Net offer lots of useful and informative advice to help keep your child safe online. Please take a look at their website here: Skips Safety Net
·Staying Safe Online: CEOP Education
·Guidance for parents regarding keeping children safe online and how to report: Staying Safe Online - E Safety
·Childnet.com (Parent and Carer Toolkit) offers resources and practical advice on keeping your child safe online.
·Advice about key social media platforms and apps: Social media guides
Click here for some short cartoon stories about internet safety to share with your child.
Report Harmful Content (RHC) Button
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RHC button explainer
The RHC button is an asset of SWGfL, a charity working internationally to ensure all benefit from technology, are free from harm.
The button has been developed to offer anyone living in the UK a simple and convenient mechanism for gaining access to reporting routes for commonly used social networking sites, gaming platforms, apps and streaming services alongside trusted online safety advice, help and support. It also provides access to an online mechanism for reporting online harm to the RHC service for those over the age of 13 where an initial report has been made to industry but no action has been taken.
Children under 13 years of age are encouraged to tell an adult that they trust about what has happened and to ask for their help in reporting this through our how we can help resource together.
RHC also have advice and links to reporting routes for other online harms people may come across or face, such as impersonation, privacy violations and intimate image abuse.
- links to reporting routes on commonly used sites for 8 types of online harm
- help, advice and support on what to do if experiencing or witnessing harm online
- signposting to industry partners reporting forms and the ability to report legal but harmful content directly to RHC for further investigation
Reporting to RHC
Reports can be made 24/7 through the online reporting forms and helpline practitioners will review and respond to reports within 72 hours between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday.
Reports can be made to RHC by anyone over the age of 13. SWGfL operates 3 helplines and to be sure you're getting the right support take a look at the Helpline flowchart to find out who can best support you.
