E-Safety

E-safety is extremely important and pupils at Q3 Academy Tipton will follow a planned programme of age relevant e-safety work from Year 7 to Year 13. They will look at how to be safe online through life lessons and assemblies. Topics include: cyber-bullying, online predators, digital footprint and sexting. We encourage teachers and pupils to use ICT as part of everyday teaching and learning, but as the internet and new technologies are being developed and changed every day it is important that staff, parents and pupils remain vigilant to possible threats and risks.

The picture below tells you the age restrictions for various popular apps that your children may or may not use.

For those parents and carers who are concerned about their children’s safety or the internet, the following sites provide useful advice:

Think U Know is a site run by CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre) with up to date information for children of different ages and parents.

Safer Internet is a guide to answer questions and introduce some of the most popular communication devices, highlighting the safety tools available and empowering parents with the knowledge they need to support their children to use these technologies safely and responsibly.

National Online Safety is lots of online safety information for the whole community.

Anti-Bullying Alliance shares information about how to report online hatred and bullying.

Young Minds  advice on how to avoid getting sucked into unhealthy online behaviour.