As the summer holidays draw to a close, and it becomes time to dust off the pencil cases, we are running through the brand new resources you can use as part of your online safety education throughout the year.
The online safety calendar
Our annual ‘Online Safety Calendar’ offers you engaging ways of incorporating online safety advice into the curriculum.
Updated for the 2024/25 academic year, the calendar is designed to be displayed as a poster or add to your noticeboard for reminders of key dates including:
- Safer Internet Day
- Anti-Bullying Week
- Pride Month
- World Book Day
Back to School Assemblies
These editable slide decks is designed for use with 3-11 year olds in schools and other settings to remind them of key online safety messages after the summer break.
Each assembly has space to personalise the content for your setting, for example by adding school rules about the use of technology or the name of your safeguarding or pastoral lead.
The 3-7 assembly includes:
- a warm-up game based on online activity over the summer holidays
- examples covering bullying, screen time, personal information and scams
- key advice to tell a trusted adult about online concerns
The 7-11 assembly includes:
- warm-up discussion questions based on online activity over the summer holidays
- examples covering group chats, gaming, sharing and screen time
- key advice to tell a trusted adult about online concerns
- challenge questions to promote engagement after the session
Other free resources from Childnet
Moving on up – A toolkit with videos and lesson plans for adults helping young people aged 10-13 with the online aspects of moving to secondary school.
PSHE toolkits – Lesson plans and video content covering cyberbullying, sexting, peer pressure, self-esteem, online pornography, healthy relationships and body image for 11-14s.
Embedding online safety resources – Guidance for educators and other professionals on embedding online safety messages across the primary and secondary school curriculums.
Smartie the Penguin – Refreshed for 2024, The Adventures of Smartie the Penguin is a series of six stories for use with 3 to 7 year olds to help explore life online and understand how and when to ask for help.
