Cyber Safety Tips

By Ms. Waters

We recognise the need for students to be safe and responsible users of digital technologies. We believe that explicitly teaching students about safe and responsible online behaviours is essential in the lives of students and is best taught in partnership between home and school. We request that families work with us and encourage this behaviour at home.

To be safe online and to gain the greatest benefit from the opportunities provided through an online environment, students need to do the right thing by themselves and others online, particularly when no one is watching. Safe and responsible behaviour will be explicitly taught at our school, and parents/carers are requested to reinforce this behaviour at home. Some online activities are illegal and as such could be reported.

You might like to play the following games / activities with your child:

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/bullystoppers/Documents/res6/story_html5.html

Cyber bullying module

Follow Ben, Will, Chen, Bella, Shannon and Waleed through six challenging moments in their life. In each situation they have a difficult decision to make. Will they make a stand and lend their mates a hand when they need it or will stand back and let things be? It’s up to you to show them the way!

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_au/interland/

Students can play their way to being Internet Awesome with Interland, an online adventure that puts the key lessons of digital safety into hands-on practice with four challenging games (some students have even played this at school!)

https://www.missingkids.org/NetSmartz/home

Cybersafety quizzes and activities

https://www.ceopeducation.co.uk/8_10/

A virtual world where students help the characters make the right choices when using email, texting, instant messaging, surfing the web, talking in a chat room, and creating an online personal space