Leadership and Management

Health and Safety

Acceptable Use of ICT

Internet Safety

Pupil Safe Search Engines

Safe Use of Equipment

Safe Disposal of Equipment

Additional Links

Acceptable Use of ICT

This South Gloucestershire policy is in the process of being updated.

Guidance on Schools' Internet and Email Acceptable Use Policy

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Internet Safety

E-Safety Conferences - Do you know what technologies children and young people are using? are they safe online? - for further information and booking details, visit

http://www.swgfl.org.uk/esafetyconferences

Internet in South Gloucestershire is provided by RM through the South West Grid for Learning and uses a filtering system called SafetyNet Plus. Information about safety net plus can be accessed below.
SafetyNet Plus

A South Gloucestershire acceptable use policy document has been produced by Jo Briscombe and Harry Langston. It provides guidance for schools to inform their own acceptable use policy. It is currently being revised.

Guidance on Schools' Internet and Email Acceptable Use Policy

(135kB)

The South West Grid for Learning have also produced a document about Internet Safety which can be accessed below.
Safety and security guide
http://www.swgfl.org.uk/services/default.asp?page=safety

Becta have also published safety advice
http://www.becta.org.uk/leaders/leaders.cfm?section=3_1&id=3173

Kent Council provide guidance on all the issues to do with Internet Safety. This includes policy guidance:

http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/ict/safety.htm

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre contains guidance for pupils and parents and also provides a means to report any potential abuses.
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre http://www.ceop.gov.uk/

We recommend that pupils are taught to use the Internet safely. The Primary ICT Team have produced draft progression statements for acceptable use of ICT for each year group and these have been linked to activities.

Draft progression statements

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The DfES have a Superhighway Safety Site containing guidance for schools and parents. It includes access to the internet proficiency scheme, guidance on safe school web sites and policies and sample permission slips to parents. It can be accessed on http://safety.ngfl.gov.uk/

Useful Websites on Internet Safety

E-Safety Parents/Carers Awareness Evenings

Please find Maps and Confirmation of Dates.

SWGfL E-Safety Website
http://www.swgfl.org.uk/safety/

Helpful information from SWGfL in developing the South Gloucestershire e-Safety Policy.

Kidscape
http://www.kidscape.org.uk/
childrenteens/cyberbullying.shtml

Useful information from Kidscape has been incorporated into our LEA Antibullying Guidance for schools.

www.broadbandsecurity.bt.com/
img/teacherparentguide.pdf

Also, published last month, the Teacher and Parent Guide to Online Child Safety highlights some of the risks and provides advice and pupil activities based around online safety, which could be utilised in developing school policy for PSHE/ Citizenship.

BBC Web Wise
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/

The BBC Web Wise guide to using the internet contains an online course and ‘ask Bruce’ instant answers to internet questions.

Kids Smart
http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/

Kids Smart is an internet safety web site with resources for young people, teachers and parents/carers.

Get Net Wise
http://kids.getnetwise.org/
safetyguide/

Safety guidance can also be accessed on the Get Net Wise web site.

Pupil Safe Search Engines

The following websites are safe for children to search:

Yahooligans	http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
Ask Jeeves for Kids	http://www.askforkids.com/
Kids Click	http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick%21/

We would not recommend using adult search engines such as Google during class teaching. Please be aware that Google Image search may find inappropriate images as filtering systems based on text can not filter these out. Teachers may want to download images prior to class to create resources. A safe source of images to use in class is SCRAN learning which all South Gloucestershire schools currently have access to.
http://www.scran.org.uk

Safe Use of Equipment

Schools are recommended to ensure that they are using ICT equipment safely and that all staff are aware of the issues. The following guidance has been put together from a number of sources and included in a suggested safety poster for schools to put near interactive whiteboards and data projectors in order to encourage their safe use. These elements should be included in the school ICT policy and it is particularly important that the information is disseminated to all staff including support staff and supply teachers.

Data Projectors and Interactive Whiteboards

Avoid looking into the projector beam. Stand to one side of the light when in front of the projector. Do not look towards the class for more than a few seconds when in the beam.
Ensure the projector is properly focused.
Ensure children are supervised in rooms whenever projectors are on.
Ensure the font size is large enough to read or zoom in to make it larger (125).
Use colours and backgrounds that are easy to read and reduce glare by not using pure white backgrounds.
Ensure that the display is large when presenting web pages on the whiteboard. To do this in Internet Explorer click on view, text size, largest.
Ensure you have checked web sites before you show them on the whiteboard.

Classroom ICT Rules Safety Poster

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Becta have produced clear guidelines on health and safety relating to ICT which can be assessed below.

http://schools.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=lv&catcode=ss_lv_saf_hs_03&rid=2348