Information for Parents

Technology and the Internet can be fantastic: they can help our children to learn, to aid them when creating digital media, to communicate and to entertain themselves and each other. Our children are surrounded by this technology and at St Mary’s we believe that it is important that we equip them with the knowledge and skills to do all of these things safely.

Technology changes rapidly and so do the dangers of exploring the online world. When children have access to this technology, often they want to be playing games or using apps that are most popular with their peers, meaning many adults may not regularly use these in the way their children do. In school, we have planned E-safety into many areas of our curriculum, to ensure children have a broad yet deep understanding of the measures they should take when exploring the online world. We also ensure they fully understand the potential consequences of not following these steps to help them realise the importance of the protective measures they have been taught. Take a look below to see how we implement this across the curriculum.

Digital Ambassadors

Pupils in Year 5 and 6 have the opportunity to become a Digital Ambassador for our school. In an after school club, they have had the opportunity to work with our Computing and E-safety leader in school to explore the technology that we use, learn how to support teachers and pupils in using it and how to use equipment safely.

They also discuss ways in which we can ensure pupils are participating in the online world safely. They have mature discussions about dangers they may have faced or heard about in the online world and share ideas of how this advice could be shown to others to ensure their peers do not face these same experiences. This is designed to help them to create quizzes, informational powerpoints or posters, videos or other creative media to use with the pupils in our school to engage and teach them about how to be a safe, respectful member of the online world. Some of these resources will be used on Safer Internet Day.

Safer Internet Day 2025

Each year, as a school community, we celebrate Safer Internet Day and take part in discussions and activities based around internet safety. This year the theme is ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online.’

In Key stage 2, pupils are taught about ways of communicating online and how they might interact with other people. During this area of learning, pupils also gain key knowledge about the importance of knowing these people in the real world too and how accounts and profiles online may not be created by the person they say they are. We also revise the key ways to protect ourselves online, such as not giving out personal information or making sure they never agree to video call or meet people from the online world who they have not met in real-life.

eSafety Useful Links

The links on this page are designed to support you in helping your children stay as safe as they can be when using technology, including the Internet.

Click on the icons to access useful links: