Online Safety
At King Edward VI School, Lichfield our goal is to educate and support students in understanding how to lead a positive and safe life online. We do this by providing information through various means, such as our assembly program, PSHE and ICT lessons, and our anti-bullying initiatives. Our students are encouraged to share any concerns with the staff, and we take appropriate action to ensure their safety.
To ensure that all content accessed by our students is appropriate, we have a robust filtering system in place, and we monitor all members of our community when they access our ICT network. If our safeguarding team identifies any concerns through online searches or anything typed onto a networked computer, they are alerted. Our Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead, Laura Hurn, oversees the filtering and monitoring arrangements in school.
We expect all our staff and students to use our network sensibly and follow our Acceptable User agreements. We also strongly advise parents/carers to monitor their child's use of social media, ensure that privacy settings are appropriate, check the nature of posts made online, and ensure that interactions online are not negative.
If you have any concerns related to online safety, please contact us.
Helpful resources
To help parents and carers ensure their children's safety online, we have provided the following resources:
- CEOP (ThinkuKnow) - Online Safety Guidance for Parents and Carers
- My Family's Digital Toolkit - Everything you need, in one place, to support your child as they grow up in their digital world
- Gaming Advice Hub - For advice on what children are actually doing while they are gaming and much more
- A parent's guide to apps for kids - A comprehensive guide to the most commonly used applications
- Social media advice hub - Providing a hub of advice to help your family navigate the risks and rewards that social media can bring
- Parental Controls & Privacy Settings Guides - Step by step parental controls guides will help you to set up the right controls and privacy settings on the networks, gadgets, apps, and sites they use to give them a safer online experience
