ICT in the 21st Century is seen as an essential resource to support learning and teaching, as well as playing an important role in the everyday lives of children, young people and adults.  Consequently, academies need to build-in the use of these technologies in order to arm our young people with the skills to access life-long learning and employment.

Information and Communications Technology covers a wide range of resources including; web-based and mobile learning. It is also important to recognise the constant and fast paced evolution of ICT within our society as a whole.

We at Langwith Bassett understand the responsibility to educate our pupils on E-Safety issues; teaching them the appropriate behaviours and critical thinking skills to enable them to remain both safe and legal when using the internet and related technologies, in and beyond the context of the classroom.

Our staff work to ensure our pupils understand internet safety and how to be responsible internet users.

As parents / carers you can also support your children. 

The following websites provide advice and resources to help to you:

• As part of the National Crime Agency, CEOP (The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) gives great advice to parents and children about staying safe online. Their dedicated website, Thinkuknow, allows worries about online activity to be explored and their 'Click CEOP' button can be used to report concerns.
• Get Safe Online - A beginners guide to using the Internet safety, including a quiz and some video tutorials about how to ‘stay safe’ on-line.
• The Rotherham Power website has lots of information to help parents navigate through the daunting task of keeping children safe online. Information is added regularly and is very useful.
• The Childnet website includes an online safety story for 3 to 7 year olds. Join in with Mummy Penguin’s song and follow the adventures of Smartie the Penguin as he learns how to be safe on the internet.
• Kidsmart is an award winning internet safety website for parents and those working with children.  It has been developed  by the children's internet charity Childnet International and has excellent information on many of the technologies used by children, with guidance on how to ‘stay safe’ online.
• BullyingUK - One in five young people have experienced bullying by text message or via email. This web site gives advice for children and parents on bullying. 
• Chat Danger - This website is about the potential dangers with interactive services online like chat, IM, online games, email and on mobiles.  It provides information, advice, true stories and games. The resource page also contains a number of links to other useful websites.