Over the last few weeks, students from the Middle and Senior Mag classes have undertaken an internet safety program. It was interesting and rather disturbing to see the number of children that are chatting to people via the internet whom they have never met. Students are at risk unless these online friends are known to family. Anyone can pretend to be someone their not when using social networking sites. A person who says their fifteen could actually be fifty. It is important you know what your children are doing and who they talk to when using the internet. And remember, it is a condition of social networking sites that members are at least thirteen years of age.
On the top right corner of the school blog there is a list of useful links, one of which is to the Federal Governments internet safety site called Cyberquolls. This site uses entertaining activities whilst
providing helpful hints to a variety of situations including, how to use chat rooms safely, what to look for in emails, and what type of photographs to put on the web. I would highly recommend that you spend some time with your child to view these activities.
