Woodpark Primary School

As we head into the long weekend, we would urge all parents and carers to remain aware of online activity among your children. Online learning has massively increased the use of cameras – in particular your child’s ability to use them. With this inevitably comes risks and dangers from people taking advantage of the situation.

There is a TikTok viral going around today encouraging children to visit the website omegle.com

This is a website where anyone is randomly matched to someone else and they are instantly connected via webcam. This of course is dangerous and could easily expose your children to the worst of the internet, so please remain vigilant.

We would strongly encourage everyone to use the long weekend to –

1. Speak to the children about remaining safe online
2. Review your parental settings on your wifi/devices
3. Check in with your child’s device in terms of apps and people they have ‘added’ on these apps.

In school we always state if they do not physically know the person, they should not be their contact in an app and should not be able to contact them.

For excellent, up-to-date and easily to digest information on every subject to do with online safety, please click this link.

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