Online Safety

Aimed at KS2

Band Runner is a fun interactive game that helps 8 to 10 year olds learn how to stay safe from risks they might encounter online.

Aimed at KS2

Be Internet Legends is a programme developed by Google and Parent Zone which teaches children how to be safer and more confident online. Aimed at seven to 11-year-olds, the programme has evolved to support schools, pupils and families digitally and deliver content remotely.

The lesson plans are accredited by the PSHE Association and teachers can order a supporting teaching pack.

Aimed at KS1

Digiduck’s Big Decision is an engaging online safety story for young children. Help arrives just in time for Digiduck® when faced with a difficult decision! Follow Digiduck® and his pals in this story of friendship and responsibility online. The Digiduck® collection has been created to help parents and teachers educate children aged 3 to 7 about how to be a good friend online. The collection now includes a book, PDF, poster and interactive app.

Aimed at KS1

Jessie & Friends is a series of three animations that follow the adventures of Jessie, Tia and Mo as they begin to navigate the online world, watching videos, sharing pictures and playing games. There’s also a storybook for each episode, to help you and your child keep the conversation going.

The key message throughout Jessie and Friends is that if a child is ever worried by anything online, they should tell a grown-up they trust, who will help them.

The animations and additional classroom activities give children great opportunities to learn about trust, being kind online, consent, and healthy and unhealthy behaviour on the internet.

Play Like Share is a three-episode animated series and accompanying resource pack that aims to help 8 to 10 year olds learn how to stay safe from sexual abuse, exploitation and other risks they might encounter online.

There is an accompanying resource pack containing guidance, workbooks, materials to engage parents and carers and extension sessions designed to be delivered to particularly risk-taking or vulnerable children, that address; self-esteem, commercial risks, privacy and security and online grooming.

Aimed at KS2

Share Aware resources are an NSPCC collection of training and classroom guidance to help teach your class to stay safe online.

Aimed at KS1

Follow the adventures of Smartie the Penguin as he learns to be safe on the internet. There are PowerPoint versions of the story for EYFS, Year 1 and 2, a lesson plan and a song available. The material covers: pop ups and in app purchasing, inappropriate websites for older children, and online bullying.

The main aim of the Trust Me resource is to educate young people around inaccurate and pervasive information that they might come across online. The primary and secondary education packs contain lesson plans, activities and presentations covering content and contacts online and the secondary pack also looks at propaganda.

The Crossing the Line toolkit is comprised of four films and accompanying lesson plans which explore the idea of 'Crossing the line'.

Young people like to push boundaries, and at times they might take a joke too far or engage in risky behaviour online. From behind a screen, they can't always predict the consequences of their actions.

Through discussion and activities, this toolkit challenges young people to not only reflect on their own behaviour online and discover what 'crosses the line' for them, but so they also know who and how to report when/if aspects of their online lives go wrong.

Using the short films as a spring board, the toolkit covers relevant topics such as cyberbullying, sexting, peer pressure and self-esteem.

Kayleigh’s Love Story is an online grooming case from October 2015 that ended tragically. This video re-enacts the last two weeks of 15-year old Kayleigh Haywood’s life when she was groomed on Facebook by a 27-year old male and then went to visit the man. Kayleigh was raped and murdered by the man and his next door neighbour. Both men were subsequently convicted of serious offences and received substantial prison sentences.

The video has been made with the support of Kayleigh’s family and would be rated 15 if it were to be shown in the cinema.

Online blackmail is a new education resource which aims to help young people identify key characteristics of how blackmail manifests online, understand the impact it can have, and how they access help if they experience it.

The term ‘online blackmail’ is used to refer to the act of threatening to share information about an individual (including sexual images or videos) to the public, or their friends and family, unless a demand is met. Anyone can be targeted by online blackmailers, but as young people begin to become more financially independent, this can be a point of vulnerability which offenders seek to exploit.

The main aim of the Trust Me resource is to educate young people around inaccurate and pervasive information that they might come across online. The primary and secondary education packs contain lesson plans, activities and presentations covering content and contacts online and the secondary pack also looks at propaganda.

The STAR SEND Toolkit includes practical advice and 15 teaching activities to help educators explore online safety with young people with autism spectrum disorders in Key Stage 3 and 4.

The sections consist of Safe, Trust, Action and Respect. All sections feature the concept of friendship and have a focus on finding the balance between online and offline interaction.

Most of the activities are not complete lessons, but starter activities or similar.