Well Being & CyberSafety
at COHR
COHR is working towards becoming an eSmart School. eSmart’s aim is to help our school maintain a supported and connected community to reduce online and offline bullying and increase wellbeing.
This year we have joined up and are currently working in the planning stages of reviewing our current policies and procedures in relation to curriculum and also the management of issues associated with technology and its protocols.
eSmart Schools, as an initiative of the Alannah & Madeline Foundation, helps teachers and the greater community to best manage cyber risks, bullying and cyberbullying issues so students feel safer and supported. It is a Framework that sits across the entire community – teachers, students, parents and the wider community.
eSmart Schools is a long-term change program designed to educate, track, monitor and prevent bullying and cyberbullying. eSmart also supports schools to embrace the benefits of technology while reducing children's exposure to cyber risks, such as cyber bullying, online sexual predation, sexting, identity theft and fraud.
Our goal is to keep children safe from bullying, cyber bullying and violence. eSmart is a way to achieve this.
Being part of the eSmart community enables us to offer parent webinars that are presented by eSmart personnel into different topics about the digital world for families. We have joined up for the following webinars and will share the links with you when we receive them the day before the designated time slot.
PARENT WEBINARS for Term 3:
Parenting in the Digital World (PRIMARY SCHOOL PARENTS)
Tuesday 17 August 2021 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Session Description
Your school community is invited to join a special online presentation of 'Parenting in the Digital World' hosted by an eSmart educational expert. Empower your school community with skills and strategies to navigate negativity and promote positivity both online and offline.
Understanding the Digital Home
Tuesday 10 August 2021 at 7:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Session Description
We take you inside other families' homes to see how much time children are spending on screens and how parents are managing the raising of children in our digitally saturated world. See practices both good and bad and how technology can both help and hinder our relationships, health and well-being, sense of community and our learning. A great session for parents looking for some validation, or some new ideas about how to best support their children's technology use.
Tuesday 24 August 2021 at 7:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Explore how to support young children, learn about the online world and use networked technology in safe and appropriate ways. Do this using the Play IT Safe resource which helps parents and children play together through digital interactions, and learn about things like sharing images, family technology planning and passwords and help-seeking. The session will look at what it means to be a family in a modern world.