Online Safety - KS1

KS1 Online Safety PSHE - Year 2

A collection of online safety themed PSHE resources that have been created to cover the ‘Media literacy & digital resilience’ section of the PSHE Association’s Programme of Study for KS1.

These lessons have been specifically created for use with students in Year 2.

They are also suitable for use in schools who have opted to follow the PSHE Association’s Thematic Model.

The lessons included in this bundle provide materials to comprehensively cover the following KS1 PSHE codes: L7, L8, L9, H34, R14.

The suggested lesson sequence is as follows:

What is the Internet? (L8)
A brief history of the history of the internet and how it has changed our everyday lives. This lesson is provided as a free download.

Personal Data (H34 / R14)
Students will look at different forms of personal information and the reasons why we need to be careful when sharing information about ourselves online.

Staying Safe Online (H34 / R14 / L7)
This lesson focuses on online safety, in particular, providing students with a set of online safety rules that should be followed when communicating or searching online.

Online Information (L7 / L9)
In this lesson, we will discuss the pitfalls of searching for information online, in particular, having the skill set top discern whether an online source can be trusted. This lesson predominatly focuses on the PSHE Association’s L7 objective: ‘that not all information seen online is true.’