At St Martin’s School, we place high importance on e-safety for all our pupils. Children receive a half term unit of work in the Autumn term, helping them to understand how to stay safe online at an age appropriate level. E-safety topics are woven throughout the Computing curriculum and teachers remind pupils of the rules whenever they go online. We participate in Safer Internet Day each year, where the children consider the annual theme run by safer internet day. We encourage parents to be aware of age-appropriate issues and protection measures and share advice at key points in the year including a parent workshop delivered by professionals in the field.
Safety measures in school include ‘Stop, Close, Tell’, whereby children know and understand that they need to tell an adult if they are not happy with anything they see. We use the SMART rules below and teach children how to report any concerns to CEOP. We discuss age restrictions with the children and they are aware of how to check an age restriction for all media using common sense media.
