Parental Workshops

This workshop is designed to raise parents awareness of the 5 key aspects of internet safety as well as the benefits and risk associated with online gaming amongst young people. It has been run with over 2000 parents and has received tremendous feedback.

This workshops can either be run by Eye PAT Tutors, or the school can purchase it on CD.to run themselves:

This session covers:

Cyber-bullying

Understanding how bullying has transferred to the internet and mobile phones
Use of mobiles as cameras and for onward transmission of messages
Guidelines to understanding, recognising and preventing cyber bullying

Viewing of Inappropriate Web Sites and Images

Raise awareness of Anorexia, suicide, pornography, extreme horror, snuff, extremism, terrorism etc.
Exploring available options to prevent children seeing these images
The effects some sites and images have on a child's development, their ability to form relationships and their understanding of right and wrong.
Safe surfing

Risks of Online Gaming

The impact on a child's development of spending long hours gaming and how to restrict this
How paedophiles use on-line games and games consoles to reach children from as young as 6
Web cameras and gaming
Gaming cheats for “sale”

Use of mobiles for internet access and Sexting

How mobile phone operators 'peddle porn‘
Children using mobiles to access the internet
Sexting – what is it
- What are the risks once the young person presses the "send" button?
- How do I know what it being said because it is all in a form of txt speak?
- How many young people are really doing this?
- What are the repercussions of holding or sending sexted images in terms of the being in possession of or distributing child pornography.