Digital Safety @ FOS - Followup Notes From Parent Info Evening...

Digital Safety at Fendalton School is an important area of everyone's learning. We are using this term to replace what used to be referred to as 'online safety'. There are a wide range of technologies that children have access to, and that parents need to be aware of. Help Your Children Be Safe Online... Parent Information Evening Thank you to all parents who attended this evening. We had a fantastic turnout of 50 people! A big thanks also to Sean Lyons from NetSafe NZ and Liz Butterfield from Hector's World. Part of our followup from this evening is to create a wiki for parents to contribute ideas to, or get resources from. Please click here or the image to the right to go to this wiki. Handouts from this evening are also available below in the Things for Parents/Caregivers drop down menu. Click here to view our wiki created as a result of this information evening. This wiki is a web site that parents can contribute to as they try some of the ideas shared during our information evening. Resources and other downloads are available from this wiki site. The documents below are examples of things we use in classrooms. They are organised into things for parents and things for kids and are PDF documents:
Things for Parents/Caregivers	Things for Kids
Great web sites... NetSafe- main site for NZ NetGuide- tips for parents Cyber Kids Safety Site	Kids click here... Hector's World Cyber Kids- quiz and reading
School downloads... Parent Info Evening Booklet - 8 page PDF Parent Info Evening - Managing Risks Handout PDF Digital Guidelines- Class Chart Digital Safety Guidelines- booklet Digital Use Agreement- for all students Definitions of various terms

Following is a list of what is on offer. This bank of resources will be added to over Term 1 and you will be informed of updates in school newsletters.

• Digital Safety Guidelines - this is a copy of the booklet coming home for parents to go through with their children. It forms the basis for us working together to help your child be safe, aswell as help them develop into a discerning and ethical user of digital technologies.
• Digital Use Agreement - this is an form for parents to explain to their children, sign and return to school. It lasts for the duration your child(ren) is/are at Fendalton School.
• Discussion starters - Coming soon. This is a list of questions you could pose over dinner, or when you are using the internet at home with your children. These questions are intended to help you guide your family as they learn to be safe, ethical and responsible users of digital technologies.

Ever wondered what the term social networking means? Click here for some definitions of some of the new technologies our children use. Other items for parents and children to view include: