Safety & Online Safety

Safety

Here at Dalestorth the main priority for us is to keep your children safe and happy. Doing that means we have to have a number of safety procedures in place day to day, you can see some of these procedures and policies below:

Day to Day Emergency & Safety Procedures

Online Safety

At Dalestorth we believe that use of the internet is an essential part of children’s learning and our teaching. Within school we take positive steps to deal with risks. Our internet provider operates a filtering system that restricts inappropriate material and if your child uses the internet it is under supervision.

At Dalestorth we take the safety of our pupils in all aspects of their life very seriously. Within that remit we are committed to educating our young people to be safe internet users and in supporting parents with this very important skill at home too.

In school we have an internet safety code of conduct that all pupils and staff are expected to adhere too. We have strong and constantly updated filters in place to protect and govern internet use.

The best way to protect your children online is to be informed yourself and make it part of your day to day life. We spend years training our children to cross the road and stay away from strangers in the outside world in all the daily little messages we give them before we ever let them out there on their own. Training them to be safe online should be an equal part of these safety messages, after all they can be out in the ‘world wide web’ from a very young age, unsupervised at times. Use the websites below to help you find the best ways to talk to your children about keeping safe online.