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Information about online safety.

Online Safety

Information about online safety.

Online Safety

Information about online safety.

Computers, the internet and social media have become a large part of daily life. This technology is to be embraced but it brings potential risks and harm to young people. Parents need to be fully aware of the risks in order to manage them. 

  • Talk to your children about online safety. Students should never share their passwords, talk to someone online who they do not know, or arrange to meet someone who they have met online. 
  • Young people can be asked to post pictures of themselves to others. This is extremely dangerous and can lead to other issues such as online bullying. Once an image is shared it cannot be retracted. Parents should talk to their children about this. 
  • Check through your child’s phone/devices. What is their internet history and what sites have they visited? 
  • Limit online usage to certain times of the day. Monitor this on a daily basis. 
  • Look to acquire Apps that enable you as a parent to filter sites that are above an appropriate age – see further advice on this.

Further information

As a parent or carer, there are tools available to help keep your child safe whilst accessing the internet. These include:

  • Parental controls – Both Apple and Google provide free to use tools that allow adults to monitor their child’s access to their personal devices.  This also includes the ability to turn on approval for app purchases or free downloads, screen time usage quotas, age-related restrictions for content in apps, books, TV shows, and movies. You can also restrict who your child can communicate with along with many other useful features. For further information please see the following links: 

  • Online gaming – Gaming is a popular pastime for children, and whilst it is enjoyable their safety online should still be priority. Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony all provide free to use tools for parents to manage their children’s usage on their respective games consoles. This includes, communication controls, time restrictions, age restrictions to games and the management of digital store purchases. For further information please see the following links:

For students, click here for specific information about staying safe online.

How Yondr Works

Frequently Asked Questions

We want our students to be engaged in their learning. A child at high school should not really have a reason to contact a parent during the day; however, if there is a genuine reason e.g. they have forgotten their packed lunch, a phone call can be made home from the school office. If a parent needs to contact their child in an emergency, they should contact the school office. If you need to contact your child during the school day, contact the main office on 01942 883796.

In case of a school emergency, we direct our students to safety first, following our school emergency procedures.

 

Students are in possession of their phone - in their Yondr pouch - for the entire school day. We will advise students to store the pouch safely in their school bag or blazer pockets.

If a student damages their Pouch or is caught on their phone, we will confiscate the phone and issue a sanction which is likely to be a suspension.

Note: Damage consists of any signs that the physical integrity of the pouch has been compromised, whether intentional or unintentional, as determined by the school or Yondr staff.

Damaged pouches will be charged to parents at a cost of £20.

They will be searched and wanded with a handheld scanner by a member of SLT. If they are found to have their phone on their person they will be expected to place it in their pouch. Refusal will be met with suspension.

If a student forgets their Pouch, their phone will be confiscated.

As per our previous mobile phone policy;

  • Confiscated phones will be taken to reception where the phone will be secured in the school safe.
  • Parents will be alerted to the phone confiscation via the school office.

Parents will have the option to collect the phone at the end of the day. If parents do not collect the phone, the phone will remain in school until the end of the week or until the student has their pouch.

In Yondr’s experience, this almost never happens. All students funnel past the unlocking stations at the exits, they want their phones back and don’t forget to unlock their pouches. If they do arrive home with a phone in a pouch, they can either come back to school to unlock it, or have a phone free evening!

The unlocking process is quick and takes under a second per student. 

As a privilege, Year 11 will be able to unlock their phones as they go off site at lunchtime; however, they will be expected to put their phones back into their pouches when they return to school for period 5.

Yes. There is an adapted version of the pouch which uses a Velcro fastener instead of a magnetic lock. This means the student still follows the policy, but the adapted pouch gives them easy access to their phone when required. If the student abuses this, they will face a sanction. We are already aware of these students.

Your Office 365 account username is your school network account username followed by @flhs.wigan.sch.uk 
The password is the same password that you use in school to access computers.