Read the School’s Cyber Safety policy
BREAKING NEWS
For Parents
From ReachOut.com
Encouraging Positive Online Behaviour
Peer Pressure and Social Media
From the eSafety Commissioner
6 Online safety Tips for the “New normal”
RESOURCES
Providing parents and caregivers with up-to-date and useful information is also part of our role.
Below is a list of valuable resources that are useful for teachers, parents and students:
- Teachers Essential Guide to Cyberbullying prevention
- Anglican School’s Commission Online Safety and Digital Wellbeing and their Online Safety Updates
- Raising Children – Australian parenting website with a lot of excellent advice and information for parents
- Student Wellbeing Hub
- ThinkUKnow
- This is an excellent source of so much helpful information eSafety Commissioner And within that site: eSafety parent portal: https://esafety.gov.au/parent and eSafety guide for parents and carers: https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/online-safety-guide
- Bullying No Way!
- Look Up This is a “must see” for every parent and student
- eHeadspace offers a free, confidential and secure space where young people aged 12 -25 or their family can chat, email or speak with a qualified youth mental health professional
- Digital Technologies Hub: Families Digital Technologies
- Parentline provides a counselling, information and referral service for parents
- NAPCAN website: https://www.napcan.org.au/
EVENTS
Fake News is a term with which we have become very familiar over the past few years!
In the past two weeks, students in Years 4, 5, 6 and 8 have attended a presentation on fake news that covered topics such as:
The different types of fake news
What would motivate people to invent fake news
Impacts and effects of fake news
They also enjoyed an online activity where they learned that fake news can be hard to spot!
Finally, we watched three videos which gave tips on how to check the veracity of any news story or item
1. Check the claim!
2. Check the Source!
3. Check the Image!
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