Student Wellbeing
Digital Safety and Wellbeing- Tip #
Digital Citizenship Week October 20–24, 2025
As part of Digital Citizenship Week, during the month of October we're sharing some key online safety tips that students have explored during their Inform and Empower incursions and other Digital Wellbeing lessons within our Digital Technologies curriculum.
These reminders help children make safe and positive choices in our ever-changing digital world. If you’d like to stay informed and support your child’s online journey, we encourage you to visit Common Sense Media for practical parent tips and age-appropriate guides.
Last term students participated in About Real Life sessions, which provided a supportive and age-appropriate space to explore important topics such as body safety and staying safe both offline and online. These sessions encouraged open discussion and helped build awareness of some of the challenges children may encounter as they grow.
During these sessions, it was concerning to hear that many students reported communicating with people they don’t know through online games, Roblox being one of the most frequently mentioned. Roblox has recently featured in media reports that highlighted the difficulty of controlling children’s exposure on the platform to the "3 Cs": Contact with strangers, Content that may be explicit, and Conduct by other users that is often inappropriate.
As part of our commitment to online safety and wellbeing at OHR, teachers follow a structured scope and sequence that supports students in developing the skills and knowledge they need to navigate the digital world safely. This learning is further enriched through termly incursions delivered by Inform and Empower, along with the About Real Life program.
Despite best efforts at home, such as using parental controls, keeping screens in shared spaces, and having regular conversations, it can still be difficult to monitor your child’s online activity. Below are some helpful articles and resources to support you as parents in staying informed and engaged in your child’s digital life.
How to help your child with contact online
“There are many benefits to socialising and playing games online — it can be entertaining and educational, while helping to build digital intelligence skills. However, games or apps with a chat function mean your child is likely to be communicating with others online, including strangers.”
“You can help your child to stay in control of their personal information, online photos and videos, and social media identity.”
Contact- who could be on the internet with me?
Conduct
Content
Annual Safety Day coming up on Friday 31st October
The OHR Annual Safety Day will be held on Friday 31st October. During that week all classes will incorporate safety lessons into their program. Your child is invited to wear a touch of red, (eg a ribbon, a wrist band, red socks). It is a timely reminder for our parents to review some of the following:
- Safety people Network
- Ringing 000 (NOT 911). What questions will they need to be able to answer.
- Does my child know my phone number? Our address?
- Safety family codewords
- What to do if they become lost
- Never ever get into a car with someone you don't know.
Keeping Safe is about being prepared and knowledgeable. We encourage "safety" conversations to happen often, rather than a "once off and forget" chat.
Lisa Canty