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Staff should:
• abide by the school’s acceptable use and e-safety policy;
• ensure that children cannot be exposed to indecent or inappropriate images; and

• ensure that any films or material shown to children are age appropriate.

Communication with Pupils (including the Use of Technology): Communication with pupils both in the
‘real’ world and through web based and telecommunication interactions should take place within
explicit professional boundaries. This includes but is not limited to the use of computers, tablets,
phones, texts, e-mails, instant messages, social media such as Facebook and Twitter, chat-rooms,
forums, blogs, websites, gaming sites, digital cameras, videos, web-cams and other hand held devices.

Staff should not contact pupils or parents of students from their personal mobile phone, or give their

mobile phone number to students or parents of students. Instead, a School telephone should be used.
Also, staff should avoid storing pupils’ or parents of pupils’ telephone numbers on their mobile phones,
send to or accept from colleagues, students or parents of student’s texts or images that could be viewed
as inappropriate. The School staff should also be alert to the possible risks that might arise from social
contact with students outside of RBIS.

Staff must not have any images of School children or parents on their personal pages on social

networking sites. Staff must not accept children as “friends” or “contacts” on these sites and must
ensure the highest privacy controls are used at all times on their personal pages on such sites, checking
regularly for updates. Staff should not make reference to the School on any personal electronic
communications or social network including ‘job status’. When engaged in School related business, Staff
should only engage in electronic communication via the School email network and not through other
inappropriate methods such as networking sites, blogging, chat rooms and private email. Failure to do

so is a disciplinary matter.

Staff should not request or respond to any personal information from children other than which may
be necessary in their professional role. They should ensure that their communications are open
and transparent and avoid any communication that could be interpreted as ‘grooming behaviour’. Staff
should not give their personal contact details to children for example, e-mail address, home or mobile
telephone numbers, or details of web-based identities. If children locate these by any other means

and attempt to contact or correspond with the staff member, the adult should not respond and must
report the matter to their manager. The child should be firmly and politely informed that this is not
acceptable.

We advise all our staff to carefully restrict their Facebook profiles to ensure parents and students cannot
contact them; this could involve removing their last name from their page. We also advise faculty and
staff not to accept friend requests from students until graduates have been out of school for three years.

Inappropriate adult behaviour that must be avoided also includes:

• Talking about sex lives particularly in front of children;
• Being alone with children in a group setting for unusually long periods of time without good reason;
• Showing unusual interest in one specific child;
• Inappropriate use of mobile phones where phone calls or texts take attention away from supervising

children; and
• Staff should not use social networking pages at School on either School or personal devices.

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Rasami British International School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students
and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. It is our aim that all students fulfil their potential.