E-safety in the 21st Century is seen as an essential area of learning. It plays an important role in the everyday lives of children, young people and adults. Consequently, schools need to equip young people with the skills they will need to make wise choices and stay safe online.

At Wellstead Primary School, we not only focus on e-safety during anti-bullying week and internet safety day, but we weave e-safety throughout our computing curriculum to revisit this regularly because at Wellstead Primary School, we understand the responsibility and importance of ensuring that the children are aware of and understand a range of e-safety issues.

For parents and carers the internet has opened a whole new world dangers and opportunities. Parents can sometimes struggle to keep up with what their children are doing online while others – who may be quite used to using the technology themselves – perhaps don’t realise that children need to be supervised while accessing the internet, therefore we also send out current and relevant information to parents or respond to parental concerns, if appropriate. At the school, we teach e-safety at an age-appropriate level to each year group and run workshops on specific issues using our links with the Police Commissioners Office and our trained cyber ambassadors to support any peer-to-peer learning.

For further information on e-safety, please follow the links below or contact esafety@wellsteadapps.co.uk

At National Online Safety, it is our mission to make the internet a safer place for children. We will achieve this through equipping school staff, parents and children with the knowledge they need to understand online dangers and how best to react should an incident arise.

Our #WakeUpWednesday campaign is viewed as one of the most trusted and reputable learning resources in the UK, providing expert advice on the latest platforms and online risks that parents and carers need to know about through a beautifully engaging and content rich design. We release a brand new guide every Wednesday.

Below are a number of websites and links to support parents / carers in being aware of the dangers online and ways that you can support your child in keeping safe when using the internet.