--- title: "Online Safety" url: "https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/curriculum/online-safety" school: "Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School" --- Admissions Consultation BHCET schools in Hartlepool [Click Here](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/governance/admissions-consultation) **Tel:** 01429 272684 **Email:** admin@sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk # Online Safety At Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School we believe rather than trying to limit young people's exposure to harmful content via filters and restrictions, we should be focusing on helping them build their skills, confidence and creativity and know implicitly what is appropriate and what is not appropriate material. This will make it easier for them to manage their use (to switch off!) and to deal with risks. You can't shield your child from all risks online, any more than you can offline. But not all those risks have to turn into harm. To help prevent the harm, young people need to be 'streetwise' online. This is sometimes called digital literacy, and it has three elements: - technical literacy - knowing your way around technologies and having technical skills; - media literacy - understanding different platforms and being able to judge the quality and reliability of online sources; - social literacy - understanding online etiquette and the way things are done online; As a parent, you may not be a coding whiz and you probably won't be up to speed with all the latest apps, but you may well be able to help your child understand the social side of things, the implications of their online behaviour (that what goes online stays online, for example, or that it's generally bad practice to say something to someone online that you wouldn't say to their face). Click on the links to see useful information for parents and carers: **[Useful Online Safety Web Sites](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Useful_e-Safety_Web_Sites.pdf)** **[UK Safer Internet - social media guides](https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-centre/social-media-guides)** **[CBBC Stay Safe](http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/stay-safe)** **[NSPCC Share Aware](http://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/share-aware)** **[Thinkuknow](http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/)** ### PARENTS & PUPILS - [Our School](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/) - [Key Documents](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/about-us/safeguarding) - [News & Events](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/news-events/newsletters) - [Curriculum](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/curriculum/curriculum-and-subject-areas) - [Curriculum and Subject Areas](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/curriculum/curriculum-and-subject-areas) - [Year Groups and Classes](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/curriculum/year-groups-and-classes) - [British Values](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/curriculum/british-values) - [Extra Curricular Activities and Clubs](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/curriculum/extra-curricular-activities-and-clubs) - [Pupil Council](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/curriculum/pupil-council) - [Online Safety](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/curriculum/online-safety) ![Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School](https://files.schudio.com/sacred-heart-catholic-primary-school-2/images/logo/Bishop_Hogarth_and_Hexham_Logo_new_(1).png) ### Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Hart Lane Hartlepool TS26 8NL 01429 272684 ### Social Media - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sacredheartcatholicprimaryschool/) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/sacredheart_hartlepool/) ### Translation ### Office 365 [Sign in to Office 365](https://outlook.office.com/) © Copyright 2025–2026 Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://sacredheart.bhcet.org.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)