Lingfield Prep School E-Safety Pupil Agreement - KS2

At Lingfield Prep School we follow the SMART acronym to help us to remember to stay safe online. In order to ensure that all children are aware of the SMART principles, we ask them along with their parents/guardians to sign an E-Safety Agreement each year. This creates the opportunity for students and parents/guardians alike to read, understand and discuss the principles. It is important to keep these firmly in everyone’s minds when accessing the internet at school or home. Pupils will be reminded regularly about the SMART principles during their Computing lessons, and, where appropriate through assemblies or PSHE.

The SMART principles are:

S I will stay SAFE by not putting any of my details on the internet, like my phone number or address.

M MEETing up with someone who I have only been on touch with online can be dangerous. People I speak to online are still strangers even if I have been talking to them for a long time.

A I will not ACCEPT and open emails and messages from people I don’t know.

R I understand that information I find on the internet may not be RELIABLE or true. I will check by asking an adult.

T I will TELL my teacher or parent if something online makes me feel uncomfortable or worried, or if someone I know is being bullied online. If I see something on screen that I am unhappy with I will turn off or minimise the screen and tell a teacher.

Other rules:

• The messages I send will always be polite and sensible.
• I will only use the computers/iPADs with permission and as instructed by the teacher.
• I will keep my computer user name and password secret
• I will not upload photographs of myself and/or my friends which have been taken in school or whilst we are in school uniform onto social media sites.

Whilst we feel that most situations we are likely to experience in the Prep School can be encompassed under the rules above, parents may like to be aware of the following more explicit statements which can be found in the School Behaviour Management Policy and School Rules. You may wish to discuss these further with your child if you feel it is appropriate to do so:

• Pupils must not interfere with the work of others or the system itself.
• No one must create, store, transmit or cause to be transmitted material which is offensive,  obscene, indecent or defamatory or which infringes the copyright of another person. 
• Pupils must not gain or attempt to gain unauthorised access to other people's files or facilities or services accessible via local or national networks or transmit any confidential information about the School: they must not attempt to get around service limitations placed on network use by the School (or its agents). 
• Pupils must not use school computers to access any social networking sites.
• Pupils must not under any circumstances use any social networking sites e.g Facebook or Twitter in order to bully or intimidate any pupil or member of staff or behave in any way online which could bring the school into disrepute. 

For more information and activities to try at home please visit:

-  https://www.childnet.com/resources/be-smart-online activities and information for adults

 Or have a look at the school website

-  https://www.lingfieldcollege.co.uk/parents/policies-procedures