Today we talked about internet Safety

Click HERE for information about The Hector’s World Safety Button. This is a child-activated safety tool which children can use if something on-screen upsets or worries them.

In class session:

Make a copy of these slides for our lesson in class today.

Add them to your cyber smart folder.

Homework activity: Safety with people

As part of Keeping Ourselves Safe we talked in the classroom about how to identify potentially unsafe situations involving people. This could be people that children are with all the time, those they meet in the real world, or people that they meet online in the digital world. Your child learnt how to use Stop, Walk, Talk when they feel unsafe.

● Talk to your child about situations that make them feel unsafe.

● Respect your child’s right to say no to touch or behaviour that they don’t like.

● Help them keep safe online.

Consider making a rule that children’s cell phones are stored/charged in your bedroom overnight. This means children cannot be contacted, coerced into meeting someone outside, or bullied, at night.

Please help your child with the following activities.

1. Ask them to explain Stop, Walk, Talk to you and to tell you when they might use it.

2. Ask them to demonstrate how they would use Stop, Walk, Talk in each of the following situations:

● Someone pushes you out of a line at school.

● Someone you have just met online asks for your address and a photo.

● A family friend kisses you on the mouth.

● You get a friend request from someone you don’t know

Below is what we did today in class (Kowhai KOS quiz).

Some children were unable to answer some of these, including their address and phone number, so please help them with learning these.

You will also see a homework activity to do together.

Today we filled in a 'pathway to safe decisions' together (pictured below), in response to some scenarios.

Use this as a problem solving map to start talking about some of your own scenarios or use some of the ones that we had in class today (below)

1. You are at a friend’s house playing on the computer. Suddenly something comes up on the screen that frightens you and makes you feel really uncomfortable.

2. You have gone to the mall to have a look at the shops. There are some big kids from your school there. They force you into the corridor by the toilets and start to hassle you and push you around.