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Shropshire LA, in conjunction with school staff, go to great lengths to keep your child safe whilst using the Internet in school. Unfortunately, using the Internet can never be 100% safe. Clunbury Primary School has an Internet Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) in place that will outline to you and your children safe working practices and procedures for reporting any breaches in security etc. The Internet is a huge invaluable resource that children use for:

Finding Information - Approximately 4 billion Web Pages.
Contacting others - E-mail, Chat, instant messaging.
Online Games
Buying Online - Books, Games, CD's, DVD's etc

Increasingly, children access learning from home, allowing them to study away from school. However, not everybody using the Internet does so with honest intentions and although they are a minority you should be aware of some of the potential hazards to children left alone to use the Internet at home.

Offensive Material - about 4.2 million pornographic web sites, growing at an estimated rate of 18,000 daily.
Chat - 30% of children meet somebody new in chat rooms and alarmingly 8% of those go on to meet face to face.
Email - 1 in 4 children are being bullied via mobile phone or online via chat or blog sites.

What can you do to help?

You can help protect your children by following the simple steps below:

Keep a watchful eye on Internet use including E-mail & Chat
Check the history folder of your Internet browser to check what sites have been accessed
Use a child friendly search engine - Yahooligans or Ask Jeeves for Kids etc
Could use IE Content Supervisor - only blocks participating sites
Consider purchasing filter software - netnanny, cyberbloc etc
Protect your PC with a firewall / Antivirus software - include spyware
Enable strict safe searching on search engines

Fortunately, there is plenty of advice available on the Internet!

5 Golden Rules to remember when surfing the net:

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