Brigantia Hill Fort Academy

Online Safety at Brigantia Hill Fort Academy

At Brigantia Hill Fort Academy, we endeavour to provide our children with the skills and knowledge required to navigate the ever-evolving aspect of life that they encounter. The online world poses a risk to children, and it is important that schools, parents and carers work together to take an active role in teaching children about online dangers. Learning how to act safely when using the internet is an incredibly important part of safeguarding our children.

At Brigantia Hill Fort Academy, we have an embedded programme of online safety within our curriculum including in subjects such as RSHE/PSHE and Computing.

Our offer focuses on the following key areas:

Online bullying
Online relationships
Health, wellbeing and lifestyle
Self-image and identity
Privacy and security
Online reputation

All the lessons are appropriate to age group and parents will be informed if there is a sex and relationships aspect to the lesson.

At Brigantia Hill Fort Academy, we are showing our commitment to protecting our pupils online by working with National Online Safety - providing training and resources for all staff, parents and carers. Copies of parent information guides can be found at the bottom of this page.

For further information visit: Online Safety Guides & Resources for Parents

Special assemblies also help us to reinforce our curriculum messages and cover wider initiatives responding to topical issues that arise alongside a special focus around Safer Internet Day in February each year.

We aim to equip our pupils with the knowledge to stay safe online by providing them with the knowledge and resources to be a discerning and resilient user when dealing with people in the virtual world.

Our academy Online Safeguarding Lead, Miss Taylor, who is also our academy Designated Safeguarding Lead, keeps abreast of prevalent issues and topics and addresses them as needed, through whole school assemblies or targeted group-based intervention and support.

The school monitors all internet usage at school to ensure it is appropriate and will provide guidance to any pupil that accidentally or otherwise breaks the internet usage policy.

Our Online Safeguarding Policy is reviewed each year and sets out how our pupils should use the internet at school and also the importance of providing online safety education in today's digital world.

Online Safety Policy

Age Restrictions

Did you know that all social media platforms and online games have age restrictions? This means that they are only suitable for people of a certain age. This is usually because these platforms contain content that is not suitable for children. Check out the age restrictions on some popular apps and games below: