Online Safety

Welcome to your e-Safety for pupils and families at Linslade School. 

While exploring this page you will find advice and information about staying safe online. 

Students and staff sign an acceptable use policy before being granted access to the school's network.  All users of the network are expected to behave responsibly and use it for educational purposes.

We educate students, as part of their computing lessons about the dangers of social networking and ensure that they are fully aware of their responsibilities when communicating with others on-line.  We work closely with CEOP to ensure that students who get involved in cyber bullying are aware of the law relating to this.

Our approach to online safety is based on addressing the following categories of risk:

• Content – being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful content, such as pornography, fake news, racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicide, anti-Semitism, radicalisation and extremism

• Contact – being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users, such as peer-to-peer pressure, commercial advertising and adults posing as children or young adults with the intention to groom or exploit them for sexual, criminal, financial or other purposes

• Conduct – personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm, such as making, sending and receiving explicit images (e.g. consensual and non-consensual sharing of nudes and semi-nudes and/or pornography), sharing other explicit images and online bullying; and

• Commerce – risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and/or financial scams