At St Joseph’s, we are committed to helping our children to develop the skills, knowledge and attributes to secure, manage and protect their own wellbeing.
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Recently Jonathan Hull, East Renfrewshire’s Principal teacher for Digital Inclusion, led a workshop on Digital Tech and Online Safety. Please find the slides on our school website here.
At the workshop he mentioned the Safer School App. The attached flyer has details on how parents and carers can download and use the ERC-wide version.
The app allows parents to be kept up to date with the very latest and emerging trends and advice around online safety. Recent alerts have concerned the WhatsApp ‘Add me’ chat that we have seen in some schools, and the alert has signposted parents and carers to advice and help.
App benefits for parents/carers:
- Find credible advice on contemporary issues facing families today, such as harmful content, image sharing, mental health, consent and gaming.
- Everything is kept in one handy place right in your pocket, 24/7 – your child’s homework, safeguarding information, school updates and more.
- Receive updates straight to your phone that will keep you informed on the latest online safeguarding news, threats, and advice.
- Keep up to speed with the latest games, social media trends, apps, and websites that children and young people are visiting.
- Gain practical, useable advice that you can implement easily into your family life, including how to talk about the digital world and its risks, bringing your child’s online life off the devices and into the dinner table conversation.
