Online Safety Support
Web filtering and parental controls
Here at Callands Primary Academy, we have appropriate filters in place through Smoothwall filtering and monitoring to ensure that our children are kept safe online whilst they learn. We feel that it is also important for us to guide parents to ensure that they have filters and have parental controls in place to protect their children when they are online at home.
Although broadband, mobile and WiFi providers offer filters to limit inappropriate content, these usually have to be set manually. The following link will take you to an informative resource which gives individual step by step videos and instructions to set up parental controls for many providers. We would encourage you to take a look at these to ensure that you have everything correctly in place in order to keep your child safe.
https://www.internetmatters.org/parental-controls/broadband-mobile/
Online Safety Videos
Setting up Snapchat Privacy settings (on your child’s account)
Setting up Parental Controls on your child’s iOS device (when you don’t have an iOS device)
YouTube Kids App
Nintendo Switch Parental Controls App
Monthly Online Safety Newsletters
At Callands, we like to support our parents/carers in Online Safety matters. Each month we will post a new newsletter with the most up to date information to help you keep your children safe online.
Online Safety Newsletter July 2025
Online Safety Newsletter June 2025
Online Safety Newsletter May 2025
Online Safety Newsletter April 2025
Online Safety Newsletter March 2025
Online Safety Newsletter February 2025
Online Safety Newsletter January 2025
Online Safety Newsletter December 2024
Online Safety Newsletter November 2024
Online Safety Newsletter October 2024
Online Safety Newsletter September 2024
As parents, you are able to join us as a member of National Online Safety for free:
https://nationalonlinesafety.com/
National Online Safety provides members with free online content guides including games such as Roblox and Minecraft. It has has free webinars and online safety courses for parents.
Take a look at some of their guides below:
CEOP helps any child or young person under the age of 18 who is being pressured, forced or tricked into taking part in sexual activity of any kind. You can visit the CEOP Safety Centre for information and advice and make a report directly to CEOP.
CEOP – Nude Selfies
This is film 4 of 4 from the NCA-CEOP Command's Thinkuknow education programme's new resource called 'Nude Selfies- What parents and carers need to know'. Film 4 helps parents and carers learn about how to get help and support if their child shares nude or nearly nude images.