On Monday March 14th at 7pm, Paula Wistrand, a Netsafe Education Advisor is hosting a parent webinar for our school community.

Paula will cover key online safety messages for parents and whānau. She will provide information and tools to support tamariki to safely navigate online environments and manage the challenges and risks.

· Quick starter tips for parents, whānau and young people

· Information to enhance your digital parenting knowledge

· Details about the online risks and challenges your child may face

· Advice about how you can help your child if something goes wrong online

The join code for this webinar is:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://netsafe-org-nz.zoom.us/j/86325695469

If you have any questions about this event, please email Janine Kroening at kroeningj@harewood.school.nz

What is Netsafe?

Netsafe is an independent, non-profit organisation that has been operating for over 20 years. Netsafe provides online safety support, expertise and education to people in New Zealand. Their purpose is to “to enable people in New Zealand to confidently access digital opportunities and prevent online harm.”

Netsafe provides free and confidential advice and support to people in New Zealand seven days a week. Advice can be for something that may be worrying you, such as bullying, scams or how to talk to your child about online safety, as well as helping you report an incident that may relate to the Harmful Digital Communications Act (HDCA). If your child has made an error of judgement and uploaded something inappropriate to the internet, Netsafe can also aid you to remove this if possible.

There are also many great articles on their website (https://www.netsafe.org.nz/) related to keeping our children safe online. They also offer advice to parents through many different toolkits which are available under the parent section of their website. https://www.netsafe.org.nz/advice/parenting/

Toolkits available include an online gaming toolkit (https://www.netsafe.org.nz/online-gaming-whanau-toolkit-accessible/) and a more general online safety parent toolkit (https://www.netsafe.org.nz/online-safety-parent-toolkit/)