Staying Safe Online Drop Down Day
Through participation in this off-timetable day, young people will consider what they can do to stay safe online and mitigate the risks associated with the online world.
About this event:
Single Session
Our single professional learning sessions are designed to easily fit into your day. Typically one hour or less, these sessions explore timely and relevant topics including teaching strategies, current events, and more.
Sign up to run a Staying Safe Online drop down day!
The day will encourage young people to consider the risks to online safety and how to mitigate those risks. Students will explore their internet use, the risks and benefits of the internet, and behaviours that can increase their safety. Students will then have the opportunity to learn about how social media and algorithms can impact their experience online, and the risks posed by extremism. Finally, they will consider how they can use their learning to inform others by designing and delivering a teaching activity on the theme of online risks and safety tips.
Our materials are aimed at educators who are looking for ways to invigorate their PSHE and Citizenship curriculums, as well as schools looking for enrichment and personal development opportunities for their students, and to fulfil a range of statutory and non-statutory obligations related to:
- Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024;
- Teaching Online Safety in Schools;
- Promoting Fundamental British Values as Part of SMSC;
- The Prevent Strategy;
- The Education Inspection Framework for September 2024.
We will send you the details to access and download all the materials after you have registered.
Please note this drop down day is available for UK educators only.
Young people taking part in a Facing History’s Staying Safe Online off timetable day will:
- Develop positive, healthy and nurturing relationships with your peers through the use of group work;
- Develop the skills of active listening, clear communication, negotiation and compromise;
- Develop an understanding of the risks to online safety, how your behaviour can reduce these risks and how to take care of your wellbeing online;
- Understand what extremism is and how to avoid falling prey to these threats.
- Develop the ability to communicate the importance of online safety with those around you.
Schools who choose to take part will receive:
- An assembly PowerPoint to launch the day
- An outline of how to structure the day, with five planned sessions and accompanying PowerPoints, to use on the theme of Staying Safe Online.
- Follow up opportunities for your students, including:
- The chance to publish a selection of your students’ writing about the experience on our Ideas This Week webpage
- Extension into an enrichment project
- Attending Facing History Upstander events
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