Today in year four we have been learning about how to stay safe online. The children watched a video and then made some excellent suggestions about how we could keep ourselves, and our personal information, safe. Here are their ideas:

• Always ask Mum or Dad for permission to go online and to help you set up any accounts online.
• Keep private information private. Don’t post private information about yourself online (email address, home address, school, where you are at certain times, phone number, date of birth, age).
• Use security settings to permit only your real friends to look at your online profile.
• Think carefully about the photographs you put online (e.g. your school uniform tells people which school you go to).
• Make sure you have permission to put other people’s photographs online.
• Reject any requests from people you don’t know.
• Remember that people might not be telling the truth when they are talking to you online (e.g. saying they are younger than they are).
• Show parents any messages which you think are strange or make you feel uncomfortable in any way.
• Report anything that you think is inappropriate, with help from Mum or Dad.