Top Tips

Tips for staying safe online:

Make sure you keep new online friends strictly online. If someone you don't know asks to be your online friend you must ensure an adult knows about it.
Know how to use the CEOP Button and how to report it to the CEOP Centre if you are concerned about someone’s online behaviour towards you.

Making Sense of Snapchat Snapchat is a photo sharing app for mobile phones and tablets. The app allows users to share images, videos and chat with friends. Users can share images and videos directly to specific friends, or through a ‘story’ shared with their entire friend list, which documents the last 24 hours. In a study, Snapchat was ranked the 4th most negative app in terms of having an impact on young people’s health and well being, with children feeling that they can use the app Snapchat to “make you look pretty”.

Doki-Doki Literature Club Doki Doki Literature Club is free-to-play, visual novel online game that begins like a ‘cute, romantic novel’. A boy joins a high school literature society and grows close to four teenage girls - before a twist takes players into a psychological horror plot. Players take the role of the boy and interact with the characters (Natsuki, Monika, Sayori and Yuri) by chatting and writing poems. The game, developed by Salvato and launched in 2017, is believed to have been downloaded more than two million times in the first four months.

KEEP IT SWITCHED ON - Fortnite online safety song for parents / carers We would like to introduce you to Dan and Sam, also known as ‘Musicalternative.’This #WakeUpWednesday, we're asking parents to "stay switched on" when their children are playing #Fortnite

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