Online Safety Concern

Online Safety Alert

Recent stories have reported a new online craze called the Momo Challenge. This has been surfacing on you tube, kids you tube and other social networking sites. A simple google search will bring up a number of articles about this. This 'freaky' character appears during some videos aimed at children and encourages them to carry out some extremely dangerous acts in the name of 'Fun' and tells them not to tell adults.  

Please be aware of what your children are doing online and keep an open dialogue of what to do if they see something they do not like. This would be enough to scare some adults never mind the little ones in our care.

We recommend that you encourage your children to use www.kiddle.co search engine instead of google, this is a child-specific search engine supported by google which prevents the appearance of things that are not suitable for them.

We will be using our safety message of the month in March as an internet safety opportunity to teach the children some basic skills of online safety and what to do if something they see or hear upsets them.