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Advice for Parents on ICT in the Home

During school hours, teachers will guide pupils toward appropriate material on the internet. Outside school, parents or guardians should bear the same responsibility for such guidance as they normally would with other information sources, such as television, magazines etc.

Parents or guardians should be aware that the internet service provider at home may not be filtered.

It is therefore important that these guidelines are followed:

• Should consider a filtering option if none exists at present.

• Discuss rules for using the internet with your children and decide together when, how long and what comprises appropriate use.

• Be aware of the sites your children are visiting and discuss with them what they are learning.

• Ensure that children do not give out personal identifying information on the internet such as a picture, address, phone number, school name or financial information such as credit card or bank details.

• Encourage your children not to respond to any unwelcome, unpleasant or abusive messages and to inform you if they receive any such messages or images.

• Appropriate home use of internet can be educationally beneficial and can make a useful contribution at home and school work. It should however be supervised and parents be aware that they are responsible for their children’s use of the internet resources at home.