Stay safe

E-Safety is a key area of concern and something that everyone has been working hard on over the last year, to ensure the safer use of the Internet in schools.

Panorama is highlighting the problems our society faces with using the Internet and how it is being misused to groom children through social networking sites.

Thus highlighting the need to ensure that children are taught how to use the Internet safely.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7107918.stm

Also some useful resources here

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


Pagebull is a search engine that teachers may find useful to quickly find a good website to show to the class. When you enter a search term, the results that come back are not text, instead visual images of the website are shown on the screen.
This makes identifying favourite sites already visited easy to spot.

http://www.pagebull.com/

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