Safeguarding
Children at Saint Francis Catholic Primary School regularly use the Internet as part of their learning. Technology enhances learning, and we want to ensure that our children get the most from it, by encouraging safe and responsible online behaviour.
Get Advice for your Child online
Thinkuknow is an education programme from the National Crime Agency’s CEOP Command. It is underpinned by the latest intelligence about offending.
Thinkuknow aims to ensure that everyone has access to this practical information – children, young people, their parents and carers and the professionals who work with them.
Get advice for you child on the Thinkuknow website - the programme provides educational resources, including films, cartoons and lesson plans, to help professionals raise young people’s awareness.
St Francis Safeguarding Policy
St Francis Catholic Primary School fully recognises the contribution it can make to protect children and support pupils in school.
The aim of the policy is to safeguard and promote our pupils’ welfare, safety and health by fostering an honest, open, caring and supportive climate. The pupils’ welfare is of paramount importance.
You can download the St-Francis Child Protection / Safeguarding policy document.
eSafety
Children at Saint Francis Catholic Primary School regularly use the Internet as part of their learning. Technology enhances learning, and we want to ensure that our children get the most from it, by encouraging safe and responsible online behaviour.
In school, we use a filtering system to prevent our children from accessing inappropriate sites. As part of the New Computing Curriculum we also have regular 'e-safety' lessons and activities to remind children of the importance of keeping themselves safe online.
At home, sometimes children can be given unsupervised access to the Internet. This, potentially, allows them to access all kinds of society (both good and bad) and bring them virtually into their homes. How to keep your children safe online Talk to your child about what they are doing online and, if possible, set up your computer in a shared area at home so that you know what sites your child is visiting online.
Social media
Facebook/ bebo /Myspace Many of social networking sites have a minimum age limit of 13, so our pupils should NOT be using them.
Keeping children safe in education
This is a guidance document from the Department for Education issued under Section 175
of the Education Act 2002, the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations
2014 and the Non-Maintained Special Schools (England) Regulations 2015.
"Schools and colleges must have regard to it when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This means that they should comply with it unless exceptional circumstances arise."
Download the Keeping Children Safe in Education document from the Department for Education.
