Overview
Our annual ‘Be Safe, Be Happy Week’ takes place straight after the holiday, in the first week of Term 2. There will be focus on personal wellbeing and metal health as well as the usual promotion of respect, tolerance and understanding of others as a way of preventing bullying from taking root in our school. There will also be the ongoing push on internet safety as part of our goal to ensure that each and every SJF pupil feels happy, safe and loved at school, at home and online every day.
The format of this year’s Be Safe Be Happy Week will be simpler because of all the restrictions and because we will be balancing curriculum time with our continuing and ongoing focus on helping pupils to catch up.
Internet Safety Workshop
We are exploring different ways to share the latest updates with you because our usual workshops will not be takin g place this year. Please look out for information. Thank you.
Keeping Children Safe Online
Social media sites and apps are created so that different people can connect across the UK and the world.
This can be both a good and bad thing as it bring peoples together. This can be positive but can also, potentially, expose the young and vulnerable to the risk of connecting with someone who is dangerous and seeking to groom children. It is for this reason that most sites claiming to be responsible, have age restrictions.
Parents and carers who allow (or even help) their children to get around these rules and could be placing their children at risk. Today there is also an incredible amount of peer pressure on all our children to have a social media presence, with many of the safer more child-friendly sites bypassed because they are ‘uncool’.
Please do not help your children to get around the rules restricting access to sites, even if they tell you that EVERYONE else they know is allowed by their parents/carers to be on the sites. Age limits are not there to ruin children’s fun, they exist to protect children - and it is worth remembering they are minimum age limits anyway – children can and should wait if you have any doubts around their levels of maturity and safety.
None of the sites on the attached image are for primary-aged pupils. With so many ways to access the internet, e.g. using next door’s Wi-Fi, free Wi-Fi in shops/restaurants and via games, it is not possible to monitor everything a child does (or is exposed to) via social media, even for the most determined and well-intentioned of parents/carers. Please use the links we will be sharing in the coming weeks in order to stay informed.
