Online Safety

Online Safety at Glenbervie School

We understand that technology plays a huge part in all of our lives in the 21st Century. As such, we know that technology poses risks as much as it does opportunities for great learning, communication and entertainment both in and outside of school. We recognise the range of existing e-safety issues and work hard to update our knowledge of issues as they arise.

As part of the Technologies curriculum, we teach children to understand computer networks such as the internet and the opportunities they offer for communication and collaboration. These can provide highly positive experiences for children but it is also a platform on which cyber-bullying, abuse and trolling can take place and that some content poses risks to their mental health and wellbeing. We strive to teach children to identify a range of ways to report concerns about and get support with issues that they may face online. We also teach children to be discerning consumers of information that they find online, evaluating its authenticity and reliability.

Alongside the Technologies curriculum, the school teaches online safety through the ProjectEvolve scheme of online safety lessons and SCARF platform for PSHE. We use both the bCyberwise framework and the Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood curriculum to support the teaching and learning of online safety. Our aim is that by the time our children leave us at the end of Primary 7, they are respectful, knowledgeable and safe users of information technology.

We have compiled some useful links for parents that can be found on this page.

Online Safety Workshop for Parents/Carers

Each year, we provide family learning opportunities for planned aspects of online safety, either through presentations at assembly or in partnerships with external agencies. The online world is an exciting place for our children but it is more important than ever to support them to know how to be safe. These sessions help parents to know what they could do to, hopefully, stay one step ahead. We received wonderful feedback from parents that attended a past live session, it was considered to be “really thought provoking and worth attending”.   The link below takes you to our most recent Online Safety Event which was held in March, in partnership with UK Safer Internet Centre and SWG