Last month, many of our children entered the Bolton Schools ICT Online Safety Competition.
Schools from all over Bolton entered, but there could only be three winners – and Oxford Grove was one of them!
Well done to Saarah in Year 6 for her amazing online safety story! Her class will be enjoying a STEM engineering workshop with Mrs Temel next half term.
Today and all this week we are celebrating Safer Internet Day!
Each of our classes, from Nursery to Year 6, are taking part in lessons to do with keeping safe online and connecting respectfully.
Next week, our eCadets are going to lead additional online safety activities with us.
Check out our class blogs over these next weeks to see what we have been learning to do with keeping ourselves safe on the internet!
SnapMaps
Last week SnapChat, used regularly by many children and young people, launched a new feature. SnapMaps allows users to see the location of their contacts. This feature allows others to accurately pinpoint where you are and shares your location.
There are three possible privacy settings:
ChildNet have posted a thorough explanation of SnapMaps and how to ensure users stay safe. Please click the picture below to find more information:
Our Parent Only Area on the school blog is updated with articles from CEOP on a regular basis, as well as containing links to websites and resources you can use to support yourself and your child in a variety of areas.
Two of the latest new links in our Parent Area are:
A free online course for parents in supporting their children in their online world.
The latest copy of the online safety newsletter produced by the eSafety Adviser, Alan McKenzie.
Please click the picture below to taken to log in to the Parent Area.
