E-SAFETY
ONLINE GAMING SAFETY TIPS FOR CHILDREN
Bad behaviour, bad language, or cheating is NOT okay! You can block other players from contacting you, report them to the game provider or platform, and/or tell your parents.
Tell your parents right away if you come across any information that makes you feel uncomfortable.
Do not give out personal information such as your home address, e-mail address, telephone
number, passwords or pictures.
Never agree to get together with someone you meet online without checking with your
parents first.
ONLINE GAMING SAFETY TIPS FOR PARENTS
CHECK out this link https://pegi.info/page/online-safety-tips to find out age limits on games. There is lots of handy info including these tips:
Bad behaviour, bad language, or cheating is NOT okay! You can block other players from contacting you, report them to the game provider or platform, and/or tell your parents.
Tell your parents right away if you come across any information that makes you feel uncomfortable.
Do not give out personal information such as your home address, e-mail address, telephone
number, passwords or pictures.
Never agree to get together with someone you meet online without checking with your
parents first.
ONLINE GAMING SAFETY TIPS FOR PARENTS
CHECK out this link https://pegi.info/page/online-safety-tips to find out age limits on games. There is lots of handy info including these tips:
- Encourage and remind your children to report issues such as bullying, threatening or bad language, the display of unwanted content, or invitations to meet outside the game.
- Report inappropriate behaviour, using the feedback page on this site, or specific complaint mechanisms on consoles or the games’ websites.
- Explain to your children that they should not give out personal details to other players.
- Tell your children that they should not meet other players unless accompanied by you.
- Monitor your children’s activities on gameplay websites. Better even, play with them.
- Cease communication or change your child’s online ID if anything within the game or the way it evolves makes you feel uncomfortable.
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How do we keep our children safe on in this ever growing and changing technological world? Dr. Tanya Bryon who produced a govt report on this subject states:
"Children and young people need to be empowered to keep themselves safe - this isn't just about a top-down approach. Children will be children - pushing boundaries and taking risks. At a public swimming pool we have gates, put up signs, have lifeguards and shallow ends, but we also teach children how to swim". E-Safety can be quite a tricky area for parents to support their children with. Here are some links to start with and provide some guidance so we can help our children stay safe yet make the most of all the technological advances on offer for us: http://parentinfo.org http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/5_7/hectorsworld/ (Cartoons for younger children) http://www.whoishostingthis.com/resources/e-safety/ The CEOP website has several videos which are really thought provoking and pitched right for different ages. Take a look at the one below to help children get to know just what is happening when they information share online..... 
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The CEOP button above has been developed for children and young people and is offered as a convenient and potentially less intimidating method of reporting these sensitive types of crime, alternative to face-to-face and telephone reporting to local police forces. It provides children and young people with access to an online mechanism for reporting known or suspected child sexual exploitation or child sexual abuse directly to CEOP.
If you are experiencing bullying online OR on your phone via texts and messages come and talk to us in school OR contact childlike: https://www.childline.org.uk/get-support/contacting-childline/ 
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