Years 7 and 8 Cyber Safety Presentation

Dear Year 7 and 8 Parents,

By the time this Newsletter is published it will be Spring Break. To help our students stay safe online over the Break, we invited Senior Constable Ally Watts, who is our Police Liaison Officer to talk to both Cohorts on Cyber Safety.

The talk consisted of a PowerPoint presentation that contained the following points about being safe online:

• Being A.W.A.R.E before you SHARE - Senior Constable, Ally Watts provided our students with a message about sharing content online. Considering the appropriateness of the content, who it is going to, if it is accurate, if it is respectful and the environment of the content and what it reveals are things that students should consider when exploring the cyber world.
  
  
• Privacy settings - to help enhance the safety of our students online, Senior Constable, Ally Watts also mentioned the importance of privacy settings on our social media accounts. This meant that creating and not distributing strong usernames and passwords as well as limiting who can see your social media profiles and locations could really help with the safety of our students online.
  
  
• Other dangers online such as image based abuse - Students were also informed on the other dangers of online use such as the distribution of explicit content and engaging with online predators and how this could be prevented.
  
  
• Senior Constable, Ally Watts also made a valid point that if students ever felt like they were in some sort of trouble with online use OR they knew of someone in trouble, they should not be afraid to speak up
  
  

Our students also enhanced what they’ve learnt about online safety by creating some posters: