Safeguarding Online Safety
We’re committed to helping families stay informed about the latest online safety challenges. Our Online Safety Hub provides practical advice, expert reviews, and guidance to protect children from new and emerging safeguarding risks and online harms. Via the hub, you’ll find detailed reviews of popular apps, games, and social media platforms, helping you understand potential risks and how to manage them. The hub also includes clear instructions for setting up and navigating parental controls, so you can confidently manage your child’s online activity.
Stay up to date with trends, tips, and resources designed to support your child’s digital wellbeing. Explore everything here: Online Safety Hub - Hamwic Education Trust.
E-safety
- Awareness of bullying and peer on peer abuse
- How to keep safe with adults children do not know - ‘Clever Never Goes’ programme
- How to keep our body and minds healthy
- How to keep safe in emergency situations such as when there is a fire
- NSPCC PANTS (The Underwear Rule)
We teach these through many different ways in our curriculum:
- Assemblies
- Direct teaching
- Our RSHE curriculum through SCARF and Happy Minds
- Healthy school days
- Topics such as ‘People Who Help Us’, ‘Cyber Safety’- introducing the new Reception to ‘safe’ people in school
- Local community representatives to support the curriculum such as Community Police, Fire Safety etc
- Links with NSPCC
As a school, we work closely with parents so they can be supported to follow up messages given in school about keeping safe with their children. Below are some links to resources and information for parents:
Please use the links below to access guidance related to keeping your child safe whilst online and other helpful safeguarding information for parents/carers.
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CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command) reporting button: Report to CEOP to make a report if you are worried about online sexual abuse or how someone has been communicating with you online.
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ChildLine/IWF REPORT REMOVE too: Report Remove | Childline to help young people under 18 in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet.
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REPORT HARMFUL CONTENT website: Report Harmful Content - We Help You Remove Content to report harmful content online by providing up to date information on community standards and direct links to the correct reporting facilities across multiple platforms.
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IWF (Internet Watch Foundation) reporting tool for parents: Report online child sexual abuse imagery or 'child pornography' to anonymously report suspected child sexual abuse images or videos.