Safer Internet Day is the UK’s biggest celebration of online safety, and this year it takes place on Tuesday 11 February.
BBC Teach will broadcast an exciting new Live Lesson in partnership with Childnet to help primary schools mark the day. BBC Teach also has a wealth of online safety resources for teachers to use with pupils, including videos, articles and quizzes. The collections examine the many facets of online safety, including online bullying, managing online information, privacy and security as well as copyright and ownership.
Each collection has been mapped to the ‘Education for a Connected World’ framework set out by the UK Council for Internet Safety. They contain downloadable teacher resource documents with lesson ideas, discussion points and potential homework activities.
This year, the theme for Safer Internet Day is ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online'. At 11am on 11 February, primary schools are invited to join a Live Lesson to be broadcast on BBC Teach and CBBC which will look at a range of online issues, including scams. During the lesson, children will become players in a fun interactive game called ‘Scam Smashers’. They will be challenged to use their digital literacy skills to spot scams and solve online safety problems.
The curriculum-linked lesson for 7 to 11 year olds will be available to watch on BBC Teach and iPlayer once the programme ends. So even if you can’t watch live, you can use it as a classroom resource at a later date.