Student Wellbeing
Online Safety
The world of digital technology moves at an incredible pace. For young people growing up in this environment, it may feel perfectly natural to interact with the latest technology and to become immersed in the online world. The challenge for parents is to ensure that their children enjoy the huge benefits of the internet safely and responsibly.
The following pages have been designed to help you to understand more about today’s most important online safety issues, provide you with practical steps that you can take to keep your children safe online and offer ideas for starting discussions with your children about the responsible use of social media.
Mobile Phone and Electronic Device Policy
Mobile phones are a part of modern society and the School accepts that many pupils will possess them. They are a useful tool, especially where the issue of safety during the journey to and from School is concerned. However, teachers and pupils have a right to teach and learn in a school environment that is free from interruption by mobile phones and other such devices.
To this effect Belfast Model School for Girls has implemented a strict policy for the use of mobile phones and electronic devices across all School sites. Mobile phones should be “switched off and out of sight” at all times. Mobile phones may not be used at any time on school premises no matter what time a pupil arrives into school. For full details please see our Policy below.