Parents e-Safety Survey Template

Parental engagement is an important part of whole-school and community e-safety. A fundamental part of this are the parents themselves.But if you don’t know what the parents do/don’t know, and you don’t know how children are using digital devices and the Internet at home you won’t know what you need to know. This is also a great way to prove to Ofsted that you are engaging with parents, as long as you can show tangible outcomes from the survey.

Below this text is a download link (Word document) for a sample parents e-safety survey that can be sent out either via traditional letter, via email, or host it on your website for parents to download and complete. Also included is a sample covering letter. Please note it is a sample only, you can add or delete questions as befits your own school environment, these questions are just a starter for ten.

If you want parents to complete the survey electronically you will need to “Protect” the document in MS Word so that only the Form elements can be altered.

Alternatively, if you are feeling really adventurous, you could copy the questions and Form elements into a Google doc, and cross-reference the Form elements to a Google spreadhseet so that it is updated automatically.

I have included my logos on the covering letter, but I’m not precious about them; feel free to replace with your own school logo. But, I would ask two small favours. Firstly I would be grateful if you could share your survey results with me (the completed results). This is purely for professional interest and so that I can get more ideas for my newsletters. Secondly, please point parents to the free parents e-safety newsletter on this website (www.esafety-adviser.com/newsletter). If they subscribe it again shows to Ofsted parental engagement.

If I get enough results, I may look at blogging them or writing up a report to share with you along with some opinions/recommendations.

NOTE: I do not recommend asking questions such as, “Has your child ever told you he/she has been bullied on the Internet?” You are asking for disclosure information, and this type of survey is not the place to be doing that.

Do let me know if you have any comments:
Alan Mackenzie
alan@esafety-adviser.com

Download: Parents e-Safety Survey (MS Word Doc, about 140Kb)

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