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Online Safety Education Sessions for Primary Students
Our Kindergarten - Year 6 sessions have been developed to educate students about the fundamental components of cyber safety. We offer developmentally targeted sessions which address key cyber risks, and build capacity in young people to navigate the digital platforms they encounter.
We emphasise the constructive relationship children can have with technology under our positive digital citizenship ethos and up-skill students in understanding the importance of online safety and ways to implement safe online practices.
Online ‘Stranger Danger’ and Catfishing
We explore the many types of people on the internet and highlight the need to think critically about who you talk to, motivators behind online contact, and ways to verify someone is who they say they are (catfishing for older students only).
Protecting Personal Information
We discuss what information is safe and unsafe to post online, and the unexpected outcomes that can occur when we post something we shouldn't. We also cover the importance of good digital hygiene, and ways privacy and security settings can help keep people safe.
Cyberbullying & Online Etiquette
Focusing on SEL outcomes, we teach students how to recognise and anticipate negative online behaviours, and outline strategies for managing cyberbullying and seeking help.
Staying Safe Online
We cover additional strategies for staying safe online, including safe online gaming practices, geolocation tracking and age restrictions on social media.
Our foundation sessions cover a range of topics in a fun, innovative and impactful way
Designed to stand out from your typical cyber safety presentation, our sessions are visually engaging, dynamic, and interactive.
Our primary sessions not only deliver crucial lessons in online safety but empower the next generation to consider how they can take the lead in enhancing education and behaviour within their own digital communities.
Foundation Session Overview
K - Year 2
The session focuses heavily on story-based learning activities for younger audiences. Introducing the concept of the internet and its interconnectedness, students learn about the challenges, risks, and benefits of using technology in their everyday lives. Delivered with the pro-technology ethos, students also learn the foundational concept of personal private information with an intentional focus on students' identification of safe, trusted adults and help-seeking behaviours.
Key themes discussed in this session:
- Safe people and places
- Personal private information
- Help-seeking behaviours
Years 3 & 4
Incorporating the trending games and websites kids use with a focus on presenting cyber safety themes using a game-based delivery. This session is interactive, engaging, and full of practical strategies students can apply to real-world scenarios they experience. Covering the themes of personal private information and chatting safely online with a strong emphasis on the importance of help seeking behaviours, students cement the foundational knowledge required to enact online safety practices for positive outcomes.
Key themes discussed in this session:
- Private information
- Chatting safely
- Seeking help
Years 5 & 6
This session also encompasses and explains the many benefits of connecting and socialising online while effectively addressing the importance of being alert to risks. Utilising real-world stories and role play, we provide students with a safe forum to explore the impact of key themes such as cyber bullying, social exclusion, and the power of bystanders who choose to stand up and contribute to positive issue resolution. Using situationally analysis, we assess some of the main risks associated with games, social media, and the long-term impact on digital footprints.
Key themes discussed in this session:
- Cyberbullying and bystander empowerment
- Safety on social media and games
- Digital footprints
Designed to address Australian Curriculum
K - Year 2 Curriculum Links
Health & Physical Education (Years 1 & 2): Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others’ feelings (ACPPS020).
Health & Physical Education (Years 1 & 2): Practise strategies they can use when they feel uncomfortable, unsafe or need help with a task, problem or situation (ACPPS017).
Digital Technologies (Years 1 & 2): Explore how people safely use common information systems to meet information, communication and recreation needs (ACTDIP005).
Years 3 & 4 Curriculum Links
Health & Physical Education (Years 3 & 4): Describe and apply strategies that can be used in situations that make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe (ACPPS035).
Years 5 & 6 Curriculum Links
Health & Physical Education (Years 5 & 6): Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships (ACPPS056).
Digital Technologies (Years 5 & 6): Plan, create and communicate ideas and information, including collaboratively online, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols
(ACTDIP022)
Online Safety Education Sessions for Secondary Students
Our secondary student sessions are known for their affirmative and unique psychological spin on cyber safety.
Our goal is to empower young people to make wise choices online, to ensure they thrive in the digital world, rather than just survive.
Cyberbullying
Our sessions encourage students to change their perspectives on cyberbullying and challenge them to not only recognise but anticipate the impacts of a range of negative online behaviours, and the motivators behind them. Using a unique framework and real-life case studies, we highlight practical strategies students can use to avoid online drama.
Nudes & the Law
We explore the laws around 'sexting' and the non-consensual sharing of nudes. We discuss the broader social and emotional impacts of distribution and Image-based abuse, and provide strategies to manage inappropriate requests & peer pressure.
Online Wellbeing & Screen Time
Looking at the 'brain-hacks' and persuasive design techniques developers use to draw our attention towards technology, we explore the importance of healthy and balanced screen time management, including its impact on sleep, study and self-esteem.
Digital Footprint & Online Reputation
This content pillar explores the concept of online reputation and personal branding, and challenges students to think about others' perceptions of their online behaviours and future-proofing opportunities. While exploring harm minimisation approaches, students are equipped with helpful strategies to create and optimise a positive online image.
Our secondary sessions provide practical information on preventing negative online experiences.
Designed to stand out from your typical cyber safety presentation, our sessions are visually engaging, dynamic, and interactive.
Our secondary sessions not only deliver crucial lessons in online safety but empower the next generation to consider how they can take the lead in enhancing education and behaviour within their own digital communities.
Foundation Session Overview
Years 7 & 8
This session goes beyond the standard cyber safety discussion points and takes a deep dive into the complexities of the behaviours experienced by teens in online environments. Utilising case studies and scenarios to explore ways to navigate online conflict between friends and peers, the session helps students understand the common online peer group issues experienced, including social exclusion and bystander behaviour. It also covers important social and emotional considerations around sexting, peer pressure, and strategies to decline inappropriate requests. It includes techniques to optimise online wellbeing, screen time, and persuasive technology for a balanced and healthy online experience.
Key themes discussed in this session:
- Cyberbullying and online conflict
- Sexting and the law
- Online wellbeing
Years 9 & 10
Cyberbullying and conflict management are challenges commonly encountered online at this age. With our pro-technology ethos, we focus on educating students to manage their emotions towards others in a healthy way and provide them with proactive strategies for assessing the risks and potential outcomes of things said and done online.
This session also discusses image-based abuse and consent and assesses how this impacts our online interactions. We talk about how online behaviour can influence our 'personal brand' both positively and negatively (using case studies from both ends of the spectrum) and give the students strategies to help protect their privacy and optimise their online reputation.
Key themes discussed in this session:
- Online conflict
- Respectful relationships
- Digital footprint
Years 11 & 12
These formative years can make or break a student's success outside of the school environment. In this session, we use real-life case studies to highlight the link between online activity, personal brand, and employability. We explore some of the modern technologies used to analyse and interpret online behaviour in recruitment screening and finish with practical strategies to help students enhance their personal brand online.
This session also covers sexting and image-based abuse laws, focusing on the implications for the 18+ and under 18 age categories. We discuss the link between image-based abuse and consent, using scenario analysis to encourage students to apply their understanding of consent to the context of online interactions. We talk about making meaningful connections online and explore some of the risks, including catfishing and the role that evolving technologies (such as deepfakes) play in exacerbating these risks. We finish with strategies to help students connect and converse safely online.
With online wellbeing, we explore concepts such as persuasive technology and the attention economy and consider how these techniques influence our behaviour. We discuss the impact of mobile devices and social media on our ability to work and study and provide strategies to help keep tech use productive.
Key themes discussed in this session:
- Digital footprint and employability
- Respectful relationships and connecting safely
- Online wellbeing and self-regulation
Designed to address Australian Curriculum
Years 7 & 8 Curriculum Links
Health & Physical Education (Years 7 & 8): Practise and apply strategies to seek help for themselves or others (ACPPS072).
HASS (Year 7): Collaborate to generate alternatives in response to an issue or challenge, and compare the potential costs and benefits of each (ACHASSI160).
General Capabilities: Personal and social capability & ethical understanding.
Years 9 & 10 Curriculum Links
Health & Physical Education (Year 9 and 10): Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses (ACPPS094).
Civics & Citizenship (Year 10): Account for different interpretations and points of view (ACHCS098).
English (Year 10): Understand how language use can have inclusive and exclusive social effects and can empower or disempower people (ACELA1564).
General Capabilities: Personal and social capability & ethical understanding.
Years 11 & 12 Curriculum Links
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Online Safety Education Sessions for Primary Students
Our Kindergarten - Year 6 sessions have been developed to educate students about the fundamental components of cyber safety. We offer developmentally targeted sessions which address key cyber risks, and build capacity in young people to navigate the digital platforms they encounter.
We emphasise the constructive relationship children can have with technology under our positive digital citizenship ethos and up-skill students in understanding the importance of online safety and ways to implement safe online practices.
Online ‘Stranger Danger’ and Catfishing
We explore the many types of people on the internet and highlight the need to think critically about who you talk to, motivators behind online contact, and ways to verify someone is who they say they are (catfishing for older students only).
Protecting Personal Information
We discuss what information is safe and unsafe to post online, and the unexpected outcomes that can occur when we post something we shouldn't. We also cover the importance of good digital hygiene, and ways privacy and security settings can help keep people safe.
Cyberbullying & Online Etiquette
Focusing on SEL outcomes, we teach students how to recognise and anticipate negative online behaviours, and outline strategies for managing cyberbullying and seeking help.
Staying Safe Online
We cover additional strategies for staying safe online, including safe online gaming practices, geolocation tracking and age restrictions on social media.
Our foundation sessions cover a range of topics in a fun, innovative and impactful way
Designed to stand out from your typical cyber safety presentation, our sessions are visually engaging, dynamic, and interactive.
Our primary sessions not only deliver crucial lessons in online safety but empower the next generation to consider how they can take the lead in enhancing education and behaviour within their own digital communities.
Foundation Session Overview
K - Year 2
The session focuses heavily on story-based learning activities for younger audiences. Introducing the concept of the internet and its interconnectedness, students learn about the challenges, risks, and benefits of using technology in their everyday lives. Delivered with the pro-technology ethos, students also learn the foundational concept of personal private information with an intentional focus on students' identification of safe, trusted adults and help-seeking behaviours.
Key themes discussed in this session:
- Safe people and places
- Personal private information
- Help-seeking behaviours
Years 3 & 4
Incorporating the trending games and websites kids use with a focus on presenting cyber safety themes using a game-based delivery. This session is interactive, engaging, and full of practical strategies students can apply to real-world scenarios they experience. Covering the themes of personal private information and chatting safely online with a strong emphasis on the importance of help seeking behaviours, students cement the foundational knowledge required to enact online safety practices for positive outcomes.
Key themes discussed in this session:
- Private information
- Chatting safely
- Seeking help
Years 5 & 6
This session also encompasses and explains the many benefits of connecting and socialising online while effectively addressing the importance of being alert to risks. Utilising real-world stories and role play, we provide students with a safe forum to explore the impact of key themes such as cyber bullying, social exclusion, and the power of bystanders who choose to stand up and contribute to positive issue resolution. Using situationally analysis, we assess some of the main risks associated with games, social media, and the long-term impact on digital footprints.
Key themes discussed in this session:
- Cyberbullying and bystander empowerment
- Safety on social media and games
- Digital footprints
Designed to address Australian Curriculum
K - Year 2 Curriculum Links
Health & Physical Education (Years 1 & 2): Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others’ feelings (ACPPS020).
Health & Physical Education (Years 1 & 2): Practise strategies they can use when they feel uncomfortable, unsafe or need help with a task, problem or situation (ACPPS017).
Digital Technologies (Years 1 & 2): Explore how people safely use common information systems to meet information, communication and recreation needs (ACTDIP005).
Years 3 & 4 Curriculum Links
Health & Physical Education (Years 3 & 4): Describe and apply strategies that can be used in situations that make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe (ACPPS035).
Years 5 & 6 Curriculum Links
Health & Physical Education (Years 5 & 6): Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships (ACPPS056).
Digital Technologies (Years 5 & 6): Plan, create and communicate ideas and information, including collaboratively online, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols
(ACTDIP022)