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Our Anti-Bullying Pledge 2024-25!
We are proud to share our whole school Anti-Bullying Pledge, 2024-25! ...
Newcroft wins the St. Botolph's Christmas Tree Competition 2024!
This year, we have once again decorated a tree for the annual St Botolph's Chris...
Our new Anti Bullying Poster is live!
We are very proud to share our newly designed Anti-Bullying Poster to be display...
Anti Bullying Week 2024- Choose Respect
We have had a very busy and successful Anti-Bullying week here at Newcroft! We l...
Symphony Learning Trust 2026-27 Admissions Policy Consultation
Symphony Learning Trust Schools Admission Policy for 2026-27 is currently open f...
Our Autumn 1 2024 newsletter is out!
We have had a great start to the 2024-25 year. Find out more here: ...
Newcroft Pupils Open the New Aldi Store in Shepshed!
Five of our wonderful pupils were very lucky to have been invited by Aldi to ope...
Outstanding Pupil Results in 2024!
We have had another great year of pupil results at Newcroft, demonstrating the continued high impact of our strong curriculum and teaching. We are particula...
BBC Radio Leicester Visits Newcroft to celebrate a very special pupil!
On 4th June 2024, we were very lucky to have been visited by Jo Bostock from BBC...
We are exceptionally proud to share the results of our 2023-24 parent survey
We are proud to share the incredible results of our 2023-24 parents' survey. Fou...
Our School Council Visits The Houses of Parliament
Miss Brailsford, Mrs Brown and Mrs Yerolemou were extremely lucky to have taken ...
Our Commitment to the British Values
We are so pleased with our brand new British Values display. The children love s...
World Book Day 2024!
What a wonderful day of reading, dancing and drawing we had! Our theme was 'Litt...
Open Days for 2024-25 Reception Starters
We are pleased to share our open dates for our Reception 2024-25 starters. To fi...
Our Pupil Survey 2023-24 is out!
Find out more about our fantastic pupil survey 2023-24 here. ...
Newcroft Receives the Autism Inclusion Award 2023!
We are proud to be one of only 2 schools in Leicestershire to have been awarded ...
Keeping safe online
At Newcroft, we teach online Safety in all year groups through our Computing, PSHE and RSE curriculum. You can see when these lessons are taught in the curriculum maps section of our website. We also teach online safety through assemblies, celebration days and in many 'hidden' ways across the curriculum. As your child moves through the year groups at Newcroft, they will experience a more detailed and age relevant curriculum linked to online safety. Our curriculum covers social media and how to stay safe. The detail of our approach to teaching online safety and how we keep pupils safe in school, with our robust online filtering and monitoring systems, can be found in our Online Safety Policy.
Our school's computing leader is Mr Pratt. He is supported by Mrs Aukland, Head teacher/DSL. They are responsible for the leadership of online safety at Newcroft, in partnership with the school's safeguarding governor.
Keeping children safe is our fundamental priority at Newcroft. Our staff follow the DFE’s ‘Teaching Online Safety in Schools' guidance. Our teaching of online safety links to our anti- bullying policy.
Accreditations
We are proud to hold the Leicestershire Local Authority E Safety award. The award allows schools to demonstrate outstanding practise in online safety and is externally validated by the Local Authority. Schools have a statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of their pupils, including their use of digital and mobile technology, including the internet. Parents and carers rightly expect schools to equip their children with the skills to manage the very real risks associated with living in a digital age.
We work in partnership with our parents and governors in all aspects of online safety. We ask all staff, governors, pupils and parents to sign G Suite for Education and IT acceptable use policies. These form part of our Online Safety Policy.
Social Media and the internet - support for parents
Navigating the modern world of social media can be extremely challenging for parents. We produce a half termly section on our newsletter, sharing current trends and themes, regarding supporting parents with navigating the tricky world of online safety. Our safeguarding team recommend that parents make themselves aware of age limits on social media sites and ensure their child uses YouTube Kids as opposed to the open YouTube that adults access.
Please click to view a practical guide for parents
Keeping children safe using YouTube
Parents Guide to support positive online behaviour at home
Think you know tips for staying safe online for 4 - 7 year olds.
Think you know tips for staying safe online for 8 - 10 year olds.
Know it all advice for parents.
PREVENT Support for parents (extremism and radicalisation)
Please find below, some useful websites to support you in talking about online safety with your child, as well as how to set parental controls to ensure that your child uses the online safely:
https://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/what-we-do/about-us/partners/nspcc-o2-online-safety-partnership/
CEOP - for support and reporting concerns about a child online.
If you have concerns or need help with keeping your child safe online, please contact your child's class teacher or Mrs Aukland via WEDUC.
