On Tuesday 8th February we joined schools and youth organisations across the UK in celebrating Safer Internet Day 2022. Safer Internet Day is a global campaign to promote the safe and responsible use of technology. The theme this year is ‘All Fun & Games?’

Using the internet safely and positively is a key message that we promote at Letchmore and it forms a core part of our computing curriculum. Celebrating Safer Internet Day is a great opportunity for us to re-emphasise the online safety messages we deliver throughout the year. The children will be participating in stories and activities on the day and we would be delighted if you could join us by continuing the conversation at home.

Please find attached an activity that your child might like to complete with you. It asks them to think up the ingredients needed for a spell or recipe to create ‘a kinder internet’. Please feel free to email photos of the completed recipes to the class email addresses so that we can share the children’s knowledge and ideas.

For further information you may be interested in downloading the free Safer Internet Day Resources for Parents and Carers, available at: saferinternet.org.uk/sid-parents.

Some other resources which you may find helpful in supporting your child online are:

• Advice for parents and carers from Childnet (childnet.com/parents-and-carers)
• Reviews and information about games, apps, TV shows and websites from

Common Sense Media (commonsense.org)

• Help on using parental controls and privacy settings from Internet Matters

(internetmatters.org./controls)

• Information and reporting of online grooming or sexual abuse from CEOP (ceop.police.uk)