A child of just five or six watched an “animated porn” cartoon on YouTube on a primary school computer, it has emerged.
The school’s technicians are now tightening up their systems to stop impressionable pupils from accessing pornographic material online.
St Nicholas Priory Primary School in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, sent out a letter to stunned parents after the shocking incident on Wednesday afternoon.
A parent who didn’t want to be named said the youngster watched “animated porn” on YouTube.
James Wright, the school’s vice-chair of governors, said: “During Wednesday it became apparent that a child in Year 1 had been able to access an inappropriate cartoon via YouTube.
“St Nicholas Primary School takes the whole issue of safeguarding very seriously, and took immediate steps to put in place measures to stop access to the material concerned.”
The letter from James Little, acting deputy headteacher, said that while the most harmful content is always blocked, children do search for inappropriate content which their systems do not block.
Mr Little told parents: “Fortunately these occurrences are very rare indeed.
“Having spoken with our ICT technicians, I understand they are able to make some changes to the filtering system to help the system learn from this situation.
“We will be speaking with the children about what good choices are when using the internet.”
The school, which has about 424 pupils aged from 4-11, is now set to stage an e-safety briefing session with parents following requests to do so.
[Source:-Mirror]
