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As Vermont Primary continues on our journey towards eSmart accreditation, the school will be running a number of different activities during the inaugural eSmart Week – September 7 -11. The children will complete some simple eSmart awareness activities during their library session and parents will have the opportunity to see if they are “Smarter Than a Grade Sixer” by completing the online digital challenge – so stay tuned. Our eSmart committee have been working hard and one of the things we are currently looking into is ways that students and parents can report cybersafety concerns or problems. We will be asking for parent feedback in the coming weeks on how this might best be done. In the meantime the first point of contact should be your classroom teacher. For serious issues there is a link on the new eSafety government page. [|Click here to access the page]. Finally I’d like to take this opportunity to remind parents that social media programs do have minimum ages for account holders. Most require users to be at least 13 years old, some are even older. To find out more about minimum ages and how safe these different sites are go to []. This link also gives you great information on how to protect yourself by having the right privacy settings etc. Cybersafety is becoming increasingly important and whilst the students are working in class to develop these skills, we need, as always to work together with parents to help keep our children safe. If you have any questions or concerns you can come and see me or email me on hall.julie.j1@edumail.vic.gov.au Julie Hall eSmart Co-ordinator
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