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"To create a purposeful educational environment where children of all abilities can learn and thrive"

Making Friends

Many of the services we use online enable us to create a network of ‘friends’, this is no different for your children. The games they play will ask them to make friends with other ‘characters’, and on social networking sites they have the option to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ friend requests.

In most cases, allowing someone to be your friend enables them to communicate with you, share things with you and often find out information about you.

It is important to help your children understand the following areas:

• Know who their friends are – because ‘friends’ can talk to your child and have access to their personal information, children this age should only be friends with people online that they are friends with in the real world.
• Know what they can see – being someone’s ‘friend’ often gives them access to your personal information. Your children should think about the information that their ‘friends’ can see and whether it could be used to bully or manipulate them.
• Know what to do if people are being mean – sometimes ‘friends’ can be mean online and it’s important that your child is aware of what they can do to block or report this.