e-Safety
St. Margaret’s P.S e-Smart News Edition # 11 - Tuesday 29 July 2025
Welcome back for our latest edition of St. Margaret’s e-Smart News for 2025. We will continue to explore and share a variety of e-Safety topics and websites during 2025 so please keep a look out and watch this space.
Term 3 Code Camp:
Unfortunately due to unforeseen scheduling circumstances, our Winter Code Camp was cancelled due to construction works taking place at our school. Dates for St. Margaret's next Code Camp for Spring 2025 will be organised very soon once our building works have commenced to avoid any issues for future camps taking place.
Inform and Empower Parent Resources: -
Inform & Empower is another e-Safety Trusted Provider which contains some great resources and video links for parents. A link to these resources can be found below. Various levels will be watching online webinars throughout Term 3 on various important topics.
Some classrooms have viewed some fantastic online incursions from Inform and Empower so far during 2025.
https://www.informandempower.com.au/free-parents
e-Safety Parent Resources and Webinars: -
Some fantastic e-Safety resources containing advice and tips can be found using this link. https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents It is highly recommended that parents have a look and explore the useful resources available from the eSafety Commissioner website.
A webinar will be held on 3 August on the topic of "Recognising online coercive control in young people's lives".
This 45-minute webinar will explore:
- how technology-based coercive control impacts young people
- the red flags to watch for
- practical ways to respond and support young people experiencing it.
It’s suitable for parents and carers of young people in upper primary and secondary school.
There are a variety of eSafety Webinars being held during Term 3 (2025). A list of the schedule is attached below.
To register for a webinar, go to https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/webinars. It is highly recommended to book in advance in order to not miss out on a time. Please refer to the URL below for further eSafety information and useful tips on being eSafe!
https://www.smmaribyrnong.catholic.edu.au/learning-teaching/technologies
Until next time…. stay eSafe!
Gary Romeo (ICT Leader)