Online Safety

As a school, we encourage the use of technology as an important part of your development, using the internet safely to explore and learn. Below are some websites that offer games, quizzes and advice about Internet safety. At the bottom of the page you'll find some child friendly search engines which you can use to help with research for school projects.

Remember, if you ever have any concerns about something you hear or see on the Internet, please speak to an adult straight away.

Advice

Kidsmart Kidsmart gives you lots of advice on how to stay safe online.

ThinkUKnow The “Thinkuknow” website is brought to you by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre. You may have seen some of their video clips on National TV recently. There’s a lot of information here for both children and adults – parents even have their own area of the site!

Games

The Grid Club The cybercafé within Gridclub is a safe online community where you can make choices without getting hurt. You can join in the fun at the cybercafé by playing the game.

Net Smartz Kids Be totally cool and show your friends how much you know about Internet safety by watching the video clips on here. There are also loads of activities and games that will test your knowledge!

Safety Land Safety land is normally a very nice place to live, but a nasty character is sending yucky emails and messages. Captain Broadband needs your help to find the nasty character. You need to navigate around Safety land answering questions. When you have answered them all correctly, the nasty character will be taken to jail and you’ll become a certified hero, just like Captain Broadband.

Quizzes

Newsround Internet Safety Quiz Test your knowledge of internet safety with this quiz from CBBC Newsround. There’s also further information if you’re not sure on anything.

SafeKids Quiz The Online Safety Quiz is your chance to show that you know how to be a safe Internet surfer. Answer each question and, when you get it right, you'll go to the next question.

Child Friendly Search Engines

Here are links to some 'child safe' search engines. They are especially designed for you to use so they won't show up any 'unsafe' images. You can use these to help you with Internet research for school projects.

Safe Search Kids

Fact Monster

Kidz Search

Kid Rex