It is the responsibility of ALL ADULTS to protect children and young people online.

Instant help and advice is available at:

•  Report Online Sexual Abuse - To make a report about online sexual abuse or the way someone is communicating online via the National Crime Agency
• Sextortion - For support & help reporting Sextortion via the Police
• Online Safety - NSPCC - for support for parents and careers to keep their children safe online
• Supporting Technology Use - NSPCC - for supporting children at different ages with their use of technology 
• Internet matters - for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
• London Grid for Learning - for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
• Thinkuknow - for advice from the National Crime Agency to stay safe online
• UK Safer Internet Centre - general online safety advice for parents and carers
• Smartphone Safety - advice from Barnardo's on keeping children safe on smart phones

At school, we keep all our school family (both children and adults) safe in a  number of ways.  We follow a comprehensive Computing Curriculum that includes a fundamental topic on online safety for each year group called Project Evolve.   We use a  range of digital internet-enabled devices from laptops to iPads, and we teach our children to be safe at all times. 

We also teach our children what to do if things go wrong online.  

We teach our children who to tell and where to report anything we aren't happy with.

School uses a consistently monitored filtering system, that prevents misuse of our devices, protects all our school members and reports in real time to our SLT and Safeguarding teams anything of interest or concern.

Our school newsletter has a regular feature about how to stay safe online.

Acceptable Use Policies

What is an AUP?

We ask all children, young people and adults involved in the life of St Mary's Catholic Primary School to sign an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), which is a document that outlines how we expect them to behave when they are online, and/or using school networks, connections, internet connectivity and devices, cloud platforms and social media (both when on school site and outside of school).

Why do we need an AUP?

These rules have been written to help keep everyone safe and happy when they are online or using technology. Sometimes things go wrong and people can get upset, but these rules should help us avoid it when possible, and be fair to everybody. School systems and users are protected and monitored by security and filtering services to provide safe access to digital technologies. This means anything on a school device or using school networks/platforms/internet may be viewed by one of the staff members who are here to keep your children safe. We tell your children that they should not behave any differently when they are out of school or using their own device or home network. What we tell pupils about behaviour and respect applies to all members of the school community:

“Treat yourself and others with respect at all times; treat people in the same way when you are online or on a device as you would face to face.”

Acceptable Use Policies

Parent Information

Online Safety Guides