For Safer Internet Day 2019, we held a workshop for parents focusing on ‘helping to keep your child safe online’.

The workshop invitied parents in to listen to a talk that focused on popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Skype, Whats App and Snap Chat and Online Games such as Roblox, Assasins Creed, Call of Duty, Fortnite and Battlefield. Parents were taught some of the potential dangers to pupils using these platforms as well as some key facts and figures. The workshops ended with parents being provided with some useful website resources.

Principal Jane MacDonald said: ‘Gretton Primary School is committed to promoting the safe and responsible use of the internet. Therefore, we feel it is our responsibility to raise this particular issue as a growing concern, due to the increase in use of Skype, Instagram, Facebook, Snap Chat as well as other social and gaming sites.

We understand that it is increasingly difficult to keep up with the ways that our children are using new and ever changing technologies. Our children are immersed in a society that has become dependent on powerful computers, including smart phones, iPads, interactive online games and virtual communities.

Through lessons provided at school, assemblies, and PSHE lessons, we aim to provide our children with the awareness and knowledge they need in order to recognise and avoid dangerous, destructive, or unlawful behaviour and to respond appropriately.

We are here to promote the safe and responsible use of the internet.  However, it is only through a collaborative effort between parents and teachers that we will succeed in creating responsible and safe cyber citizens.’

Please click on the link below to view our Safer Internet Day presentation.