You play a crucial role in empowering and supporting children and young people to use digital technologies responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively. Indeed, parental influence, guidance and education have a significant and long-lasting impact on children’s safety and wellbeing in the online world. Therefore, there are plenty of ways for you to participate in Safer Internet Day, whether it is by ensuring an open dialogue with your children, educating them to use digital technologies safely and positively, or acting as digital role models.

Below are links for simple Internet Safety Lessons at home.

You are the main target of Safer Internet Day why not make your voices heard on matters relating to your safety and wellbeing in the online world. You can do this by contacting your national Safer Internet Centre or Safer Internet Day Committee and getting involved in their youth participation schemes, to becoming an advocate of Safer Internet Day in school and within your friendship groups. You can also be the change you want to see in the (online) world by being kind and respectful to others online, by protecting your online reputation and that of others, and by seeking out positive opportunities to create, engage and share online. Explore the websites below with an adult.

You can get involved in Safer Internet Day. Firstly, the most important way is to raise awareness – is to make sure Shaftesbury Park school community is a place where children are able to learn about internet safety, a safe space to talk about their online experiences and think of ways in which online safety can be initiated in school and at home.  At Shaftesbury Park we make sure all staff are aware of and can confidently teach about internet safety, she assess the children on their understanding and then use this to frame our internet safety computing lesson.

Please find teaching resources on the Computing Shared Drive