Cyber-Safety
Please read this information sheet and discuss it with your children
Allowing kids to go online without supervision or ground rules is like allowing them to explore a major metropolitan area by themselves. The Internet, like a city, offers an enormous array of entertainment and educational resources but also presents some risks.
Although there are benefits to children having the internet, such as: kids can read stories, tour museums, visit other countries, play games, look at photographs, shop, and do research to help with homework, they may also come across sites containing adult images or demeaning, racist, sexist, violent, or false information.
Therefore we need to educate kids how to be safe while they are on the internet.
So here are the 10 golden rules of internet safety:
- Stop right away if you see anything that is offensive to you.
- Never give out personal information such as your address, telephone numbr, parent's work address/telephone number, or the name and location of your school.
- Never give out your last name.
- Do not agree to "meet" anyone online without checking with your parents.
- Do not respond to any mean message that makes you feel uncomfortable. Please tell a parent/teacher straight away.
- Do not give out your internet password to anyone [even your best mate] other than your parents.
- Do not believe anything you read online. Always check with a parent/teacher.
- Do not send pictures, videos, links or anything that shows your family and you.
- Do not open e-mail, links, files, pictures, or sounds from people that you don't know or trust.
- Be a good online citizen and don't do anything that hurts other people or is against the law.
Compiled by one of our Year 8 Students
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