Online Safety
ICT in the 21st Century is an essential resource to support learning and teaching, as well as playing an important role in the everyday lives of children, young people and adults. Consequently, schools need to build in the use of these technologies in order to equip our young people with the skills to access life-long learning and employment.
Information and Communications Technology covers a wide range of resources including web-based and mobile learning. It is also important to recognise the constant and fast paced evolution of ICT within our society as a whole. Currently the internet technologies that children and young people could have access to either at school or home are:
- Websites
- Learning Platforms and Virtual Learning Environments
- Email and Instant Messaging
- Chat Rooms and Social Networking
- Blogs and Wikis
- Podcasting
- Video Broadcasting
- Music Downloading
- Web based gaming
- Smart phones with text, photo, video and/ or internet access
- Other mobile devices such as tablets with internet access
Corpus Christi students need to be aware of the risks associated with web based activities.
At Corpus Christi School, we acknowledge the responsibility to educate our students on online safety issues, teaching them the appropriate behaviours and skills to enable them to remain both safe and legal when using the internet and related technologies, in and beyond the context of the classroom.
This policy and the Acceptable Use Agreement for all staff, governors, visitors and pupils, address the use of internet technologies provided by the school via PCs, laptops, tablets, webcams, whiteboards, voting systems, digital video equipment and technologies owned privately by pupils and staff but brought onto school premises.
