A printable version of our SMART rules for primary aged children, containing useful safety websites and advice to help keep you and your friends safe when using the internet and mobile devices.

A poster for Pride Month for those working with young people to display in their school or youth group.

A practical resource to guide parents, carers or other adults in an open conversation with a child about life online.

A resource for 10-12 year olds, helping young people with the online aspects of moving to secondary school. A lot of work goes into helping young people make a smooth transition from primary to secondary education. We have created these videos and accompanying resources to help with the online aspects of this move. The videos cover issues like wanting a first phone, group chats, and handling friend and follower requests. Social media and under 13s This resource focuses on helping young people aged 10-13 when moving from primary to secondary education, in the UK this usually happens at the age of 11. This is also a time when many young people will receive their first phone and start to use apps, including social media, to keep in touch with old friends and make new ones, even when they do not meet the age requirements. Most social media and messaging apps have a minimum user age of 13, and we recommend to parents, carers and young people that they wait until they reach this age. Whilst we do encourage young people to wait, we are aware that there will be learners who are already active on these platforms, and this is why they are discussed in this resource. For those learners who are not using social media yet, the activities will be helpful if they choose to do so later. Teachers and educators, if you believe that some of your learners are using social media before they are 13, you should follow the procedures of your school or setting in this situation.

PSHE/PSE lesson plans, quick activities, a quiz and teaching guide designed to explore problematic online sexual behaviour with 9-12 year olds. This toolkit explores problematic online sexual behaviour, with a focus on online sexual harassment e.g. bullying or harmful behaviour online based on gender or sexual orientation stereotypes, body-shaming, nudity and sexually explicit content. This toolkit for 9-12 year olds follows on from the creation of the ‘Step Up, Speak Up!’ toolkit for 13-17 year olds. What does this toolkit include? Three lesson plans Quick activities An interactive quiz Teaching Guide What are the learning objectives? To support educators in delivering high quality PSHE/PSE and relationships education lessons. To give children a safe space to discuss, explore and challenge peer to peer online sexual harassment e.g. bullying or harmful behaviour online based on gender or sexual orientation stereotypes, body-shaming, nudity and sexually explicit content. To discuss with children how they can be good friends online. To raise awareness of this issue to prevent it from becoming normalised. To give children the confidence to report unacceptable online behaviour.

With Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) becoming statutory in all schools from September 2020, schools need practical, thoughtful and helpful resources to help them teach RSE. Myth vs Reality is phase 2 of our practical PSHE toolkit for educators of young people aged 11-14. Its purpose is to help educators generate discussion amongst young people about their online experiences and challenge them to consider how real the content is that we see online. Using a set of talking heads films as a spring board, the toolkit covers relevant topics such as online pornography, healthy relationships and body image; considering how all 3 topics connect together. It will explore key online myths in relation to these topics and guide educators in supporting young people to seek out the reality and challenge the myths they are seeing online. Through discussion and activities, this toolkit not only challenges young people to reflect on their own experiences, their own behaviour and unpick the truth from the online myths, but also ensures that they know who to go to and how to get support when/if aspects of their online life worries them.

A set of A3 posters covering some of the issues young people face online. We think these posters will mainly be suitable for young people aged 11 and over but they can be used with younger children.

A practical campaign toolkit to address the issue of online sexual harassment amongst young people aged 13 – 17 years. The Step Up, Speak Up! Teaching Toolkit is a practical, interactive and scenario-based resource which addresses the issue of online sexual harassment amongst 13-17 year olds. About this toolkit This toolkit is comprised of 4 lesson plans with accompanying films, an audio story, workshops and an assembly presentation. This toolkit gives young people the opportunity to explore their own attitudes and opinions of online sexual harassment, and to discuss ways to challenge unacceptable online behaviour. The reporting process is a key theme that runs throughout the toolkit, and the different reporting options are explored and clarified. *Opportunities for adaptation and extension are provided for all activities, plus additional information for educators to understand the background of the issues at hand and guidance on discussing these with students. * Why should young people be taught about online sexual harassment? It’s a growing issue Project deSHAME found that 51% of UK young people aged 13-17 years have seen people sharing nude or nearly nude images of someone they know in the last year. We found 26% of UK young people reported that someone had shared gossip or lies about their sexual behaviour online, and 39% of UK young people have witnessed people setting up a page/group to share sexual gossip or images of their peers. It’s not just about sexting Online sexual harassment covers many different behaviours, with sexting being one out of the many other types. Sexting is an umbrella term and it can take many forms. Much of the previous work on this topic has been focussed on the initial sharing of the image, and risks placing the blame on the victim rather than concentrating on the unacceptable behaviour of the person who breached their trust and shared it on. It’s not being reported enough It’s clear that many young people are witnessing or experiencing a wide range of online sexual harassment incidents but not reporting them. Project deSHAME found that 53% of young people said they would ignore online sexual harassment if it happened to them, and only 15% said they would speak to a teacher about it.

Safer Internet Day 2019 focused on the theme of consent online. For this age group we looked at consent amongst friendship groups with what might be shared between them. We also looked at consent for the data about us that is being collected and shared when we go online. This pack contains: A guide to using the pack Assembly/lesson presentation and script Top tips videos Quick activities Whole school or community activities We would like to thank Verizon Media for their kind support in the development of the Education Packs and the Welsh Government for supporting the translation.

Safer Internet Day 2018 focused upon the theme ‘Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you’. This was a chance to look at how relationships and the way people interact online can be different and encouraging young people to think about their digital wellbeing too. Childnet, as part of the UK Safer Internet Centre, coordinates Safer Internet Day in the UK and has created this resource pack to start discussions and promote Safer Internet Day. This pack provides lots of great ideas that your school, youth group, library or other organisation can share with local parents/carers to encourage their families to get involved in Safer Internet Day 2018. This pack is intended for parents/carers to use with their children and includes: • Factsheet • Conversation starters • Family pledge card • Fun things to do • Quick activities We would like to thank Oath for their kind support in the development of the Education Packs and the Welsh Government for supporting the translation.

Safer Internet Day 2018 focused upon the theme ‘Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you’. This was a chance to look at how relationships and the way people interact online can be different and encouraging young people to think about their digital wellbeing too. Childnet, as part of the UK Safer Internet Centre, coordinates Safer Internet Day in the UK and has created this resource pack to start discussions and promote Safer Internet Day. This pack provides lots of great ideas to help schools, youth groups, libraries and other organisations get involved in Safer Internet Day 2018. This pack contains: - a fully supported lesson plan - links on how to make a campaign film - quick activities - whole school/community activities - assembly presentation with script We would like to thank Oath for their kind support in the development of the Education Packs and the Welsh Government for supporting the translation.

Safer Internet Day 2018 focused upon the theme ‘Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you’. This was a chance to look at how relationships and the way people interact online can be different and encouraging young people to think about their digital wellbeing too. Childnet, as part of the UK Safer Internet Centre, coordinates Safer Internet Day in the UK and has created this resource pack to start discussions and promote Safer Internet Day. This pack provides lots of great ideas to help schools, youth groups, libraries and other organisations get involved in Safer Internet Day 2018. This pack contains: - a fully supported lesson plan - quick activities - whole school/community activities - assembly presentation with script We would like to thank Oath for their kind support in the development of the Education Packs and the Welsh Government for supporting the translation.

Safer Internet Day 2017 focused upon the power of images explores the power and influence of images and videos in young people’s lives. The day highlighted the positives and potential risks as well as identifying the key skills young people needed. This pack contains: quick activities whole school/community activities one fully supported lesson plan assembly presentation with script

Safer Internet Day 2017 focused upon the power of images explores the power and influence of images and videos in young people’s lives. The day highlighted the positives and potential risks as well as identifying the key skills young people needed. This pack contains: - quick activities - whole school/community activities - one fully supported lesson plan - assembly presentation with script - a play script

Join in with Daddy Penguin’s song and follow the adventures of Smartie and Daddy Penguin as Smartie learns how to be safe on the internet.

Digiduck's Big Decision is a story about being a good friend to others on the internet, and thinking about your friends&' feelings online.