Online Safety

Keeping your children safe online

We know that connected technologies and apps can bring about personal and social change for the better: they can help us become healthier, sportier, better at setting goals, keeping in touch with loved ones far away and even assist us in learning another language.  We also understand however, that there are aspects of online and connected technologies that can have the potential of harm towards our children.

This page will be updated regularly to keep abreast of digital changes and to provide families with further information to support our children in staying safe in a digital, connected online world.

Have you read and discussed our BJA Family Computing and Online Safety Acceptable Use policy with your child?

We have a two-year rolling programme of coverage to ensure that we discuss all aspects of age-appropriate online safety with your children.  This coverage is shown in the image below:

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Please see below links to support material below on parental controls for apps and devices.

Please also keep an eye out for Mr. Pyburn’s weekly Tech Top Tip in the Branston Bulletin.

This following webpage from internetmatters.org explains how to set up parental controls on a range of broadband and mobile service providers:

Broadband Parental Controls & Mobile Network Settings | Internet Matters

Whilst this page (also from www.internetmatters.org) provides instructions on how to enable parental controls on a range of digital devices, such as iPhones and Android devices:

Guides for Apple and Android devices parental controls | Internet Matters

The Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership has collated a range of KS2 online safety resources that you can use with your child(ren).  Clicking on this link will download a .pdf file showing you how and where to access these materials.

Further Advice, Support and Useful Links for parents and carers

At Branston Junior Academy we engage with support from agencies such as the LSCP (Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership):

https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/safeguarding/lscp,

the LSSP (Lincolnshire Stay Safe Partnership) – an organisation who visit us each school year to help keep your children safe online: https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/school-pupil-support/stay-safe-partnership

and the education program from NCA-CEOP, Thinkuknow: https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk

At Branston Junior Academy, we take your child’s online safety very seriously. We believe that children should be able to access and enjoy the online resources safely and each term, the importance of an aspect of online safety is highlighted and related to our values.

If you need any more assistance, please do get in touch.

M. Pyburn, January 2026