Based on the e-safety presentations that I have already seen, I believe an effective one should have the following elements:

• An e-safety subject
• Fun characters (animals, children or adults with interesting personalities)
• Discussion prompts based on right and wrong decisions
• Songs or videos
• Ways of remembering advice, mnemonics, poems, rhymes
• Repetition of the above to cement knowledge
• Role-play, reconstruction of decision-making scenes
• Age-appropriate story anyone can relate to
• Clear message

The target audience for these criteria could actually be anyone, adults respond to interesting characters, poems and songs just as well as children. Obviously, they would have to be varied depending on the age of the subjects you are presenting to, be it EYFS, KS1, KS2, secondary or adult.

I will attempt to plan one here using the above criteria.

E-Safety subject

Cyber-bullying. Children in year 5 and 6 are starting to interact more and more with each other and the outside world online so in primary school, KS2 could be where cyber-bullying is most prominent. This will be my focus. I would need to describe what cyber-bullying is, how it can affect children, how you can be mindful of it and what you should do if you experience it.

Fun characters

Given the option, I would choose similar aged children for this rather than animals or cartoons so that the pupils can relate to them and more easily engage with discussion.

Discussion prompts

From my experience teaching literally any other subject or lesson, engaging discussion prompts always trigger pupils curiosity and motivation enabling them to be proactive in the lesson. For this, they could be questions with right and wrong answers or no answers at all if you want your students to challenge themselves or elicit their responses. They could be statements (I have found that something they will disagree with creates the most arguments)

Examples: Would you take someone else’s files or work online without asking? Would you log into someone else’s account and ruin or delete their work? Would you make fun of comments, pictures or send hurtful or threatening messages over the internet? I think it is okay to post embarrassing photos of my friends.

Role-play

Definitely something I have found to motivate children especially in a debate type context is role-play. Putting the children in the scenario, allowing them to act and get out of their chairs is a powerful tool and any lessons I’ve used it in have been quite successful. Using the above prompts, one child can be on one side of the debate and one on the other. During a presentation, I would allow a certain amount of time for pairs or groups to participate in something like this to apply the knowledge I have taught them and also to break up the amount of time I spend talking!

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