e-safety

Children are relatively safe in school when online. All schools use URL filtering which ensures users are protected from exposure to pornographic, extremely violent & racist online material. Schools tend not to allow access to social gaming sites like Club Penguin, Habbo Hotel, imvu, Second Life, etc or social networking sites such as Bebo, MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. Chat rooms and instant messaging tools tend to be blocked.

At home children are far more exposed to the risks of using online communications, while parents often have little experience of these tools. It is therefore vital that we educate children and parents about the benefits and risks of using these communication tools, and how best to stay safe online.

e-safety course

There is now an e-safety courses to safeguard children’s use of the internet at home and at school. The target group is the school leadership team and persons with the responsibility for safeguarding children.
By Tom Galvin and Mark Robinson

The course covers:

Raising awareness of:
risks young people are exposed to in their use of internet - particularly out of school.
the nature of cyberbullying, covered in depth by a separate course.
The need for school policies and procedures designed to educate and empower children and parents.
Recommended progression of activities for pupils / students from KS1 - KS4+.
Guidance and on running a session to inform and empower parents.

Please see the central training programme for details and dates.

Ealing's e-safety courses are delivered by a trainer with child exploitation and online protection (CEOP) accreditation.
PLease visit the CEOP thinkuknow website where you can register your school and download useful teaching resources for KS1 / KS2 / KS3 / KS4.

Further information and resources

More information and resources are now in Ealing's ICT room on the London MLE (Managed Learning Environment).

To access the MLE, please go to www.fronter.com/ealing and log in with your username and password.

All staff in schools using the London MLE should know their username and password. If this is not the case, speak to your ICT coordinator.

Schools NOT yet using the London MLE, have been given a generic one username and password for each school that everyone in the school can use.

Please ask your school ICT coordinator, in your office, or email Mark Robinson, mrobinson@ealing.gov.uk.