Locking Access to browser history

I work at a school, that runs from Pre-K to Sixth grade; though we are considering expanding to the 7th and 8th grades. Currently we don't have any method to record where our kids (4th, 5th and 6th) are browsing (we use GURL Watcher, but it's reliability is suspect).
Is there a way to set Safari that they are unable to change Safari's browser history (because some of them have begun to clear it, and with the unreliability of GURL Watcher we can definitively need some way to track where they are going).
Our intent is not to stop them from browsing (though they are well aware that there are not allowed to visit sexually-themed sites or things of that nature) but to make sure that they are doing anything inappropriate.
Thanks in Advance.

Hi
Short of activating parental controls in a managed user account, there's not much you can do about access to the History. The short coming of parental controls finds users limited to a "white list" of allowed web sites, which would impinge on searches etc.
Two 3rd party parental monitoring programs to consider:
KidsGoGoGo
and
Safe Eyes

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