Age

Category
Foundation
Stage/Year 1

Common Sense Media

Lesson
Lesson 1

Going Places
Safely
Pupils learn that they
can go to exciting
places online, but they
need to follow certain
rules to remain safe

Resources
Cybersmart - Zippep's Astro Circus
Online game
Cybersmart - Sharing Personal Information
Resources and lesson plans
Childnet - Smartie the Penguin - ebook
Childnet - Digiduck e-book
Netsmartz - Routers Birthday Surprise
Interactive resource
Netsmartz - Clickys Online Safety Rap
Video
Netsmartz - Way 2 Go
Video
Netsmartz - Delivery for webster - ebook

Curriculum Opportunities
PSHE - SEAL Theme 6 Relationships. Sharing your opinions
of things that matter and explain your views.
EYFS Understanding the World, investigates places,
objects, materials and living things by using all the senses as
appropriate Identifies some features and talks about the
features, likes and dislikes
Idea: Identify safe places to play, what it feels like to be
safe, use of the emotional barometer.
EYFS Understanding the World, uses information and
communication technology to support learning
Idea: Create a class safety promo film for staying safe
around the school. If green screen technology is available
pupils could create a safety promo film for other places
such as the local park, the city centre, the library etc..
EYFS Understanding the World, uses programmable toys
to support learning
Idea: Take class on a short technology safari around the
local area identifying street technology: network boxes,
traffic lights, street lighting controls, alarms etc

Age
Category
Foundation
Stage/Year 1

Common Sense Media

Lesson
Lesson 2

ABC Searching
Pupils search for
pictures online by
clicking on letters of

Resources

Curriculum Opportunities

SWGfL - Swiggle
Education search engine and resource site for children
Google Safesearchkids
Search engine for children
Getnetwise - Advice for teachers and parents
How to enable safe searching in online search tools

PSHE SEAL New Beginnings. Listen to other people play

and work cooperatively. Identify and respect the difference
and similarities between people.
EYFS Mathematics Sorts or matches objects and talks about
sorting.
Communication and Language, Literacy. Uses talk to

the alphabet. They

learn that directory
sites with alphabetical
listings offer one way
to find things on the
Internet

Age
Category
Foundation
Stage/Year 1

Common Sense Media

Lesson
Lesson 3

Keep it Private
Pupils learn that many
websites ask for
information that is
private and discuss how
to responsibly handle
such requests

organise sequence and clarify thinking.

Idea: Ordering objects in the classroom by alphabet create a
role play area Alphabetical toy shop Line up/group in
alphabetical order, hair colour, height order, age order etc
Create alphabet ebooks. Sort objects by colour, size etc

Resources
Cybersmart - Sharing Personal Information
Resources and lesson plans
CEOP - Hectors World
Cartoons and teacher resources
Childnet - The SMART crew
Cartoon on the SMART rules
Childnet - Smartie the Penguin
E-book and teachers resources
Roar Educate Strong Passwords poster
Roar Educate - Online Identity poster
BBC - Guy Fawkes shares personal information over the
internet and gets into trouble
Horrible Histories resource on internet privacy
ICO Personal information and information rights
Lesson plans and resources

Curriculum Opportunities
PSHE SEAL Changes Preparing to play an active role as
citizens, to recognise choices they can make, and recognise
the difference between right and wrong.
ICT Exchanging & sharing information, to present their
completed work effectively [for example, for public display].
Idea: Pupils create their own Shop Window - What
information would you like to be available about you in a
safe shop window? What information wouldnt they include
and why? Try developing a digital shop window for the
class - you could use a safe online space such as Picture
Teller, or learning platform or secure online area for the
shop window display. Use digital images, sounds and video.

Age
Category

Common Sense Media

Lesson

Resources

Curriculum Opportunities

Age
Category

Common Sense Media

Lesson

Resources

Curriculum Opportunities

Foundation
Stage/Year 1

Lesson 5

Sending Email
Pupils explore how
they can use email to
communicate with
real people within
their schools, families,
and communities

Foundation
Stage/Year 1

Lesson 4

My Creative
Work
Pupils are introduced
to the concept of
having ownership over
creative work. They
practice putting their
name and date on
something they
produce

Cybersmart - What is real?

Unit of Work about differentiation between real and
fictional characters online
CEOP - Lee and Kim
Children learn that avatars are controlled by real people.
Activities, videos, lessons plans, puppet masks.
Insafe - Play & Learn Being Online
Activity book

Budd:e - Budd:e stay smart online

Online learning activities, rewards and interactive tool.

PSHE- SEAL Good to be me.

To listen to other people, play and work cooperatively.
Family and friends should care for one another
EYFS Communication and Language, Literacy
Use language to imagine and recreate roles.
Idea: Postcard penpals - pupils create a multimedia
postcard featuring themselves and the things that are
important to them, compare with real life photographs of
themselves and the things around them. Discuss the
differences and similarities. You could use a simple
publishing tool or even a video clip or talking photo using
picture teller

Age
Category

Common Sense Media

Unit

Yr2

Staying Safe
Online
Pupils understand that
they should stay safe
online by choosing
websites that are good
for them to visit, and
avoid sites that are
not appropriate for
them

Age
Category
Yr2

Common Sense Media

Unit

Follow the
Digital Trail
Pupils learn that the
information they put
online leaves a digital
footprint or trail.
This trail can be big or
small, helpful or
hurtful, depending on
how they manage it.

Resources
Cybersmart - Sharing Personal Information
Resources and lesson plans
Childnet - Smartie the Penguin - ebook
Childnet - Digiduck e-book
Roar Educate - Malware and Spyware poster Bug
Catcher
Disney - Don't be in the dark
Online safe surfing game

Resources
Roar Educate - Privacy and posting poster
BBC Saxon Monk Internet Videos are forever
Horrible histories video
ICO Personal information and information rights
Lesson plans and resources

Curriculum Opportunities
Literacy Non-fiction Information texts
ICT - to use text, tables, images and sound to develop
their ideas, how to share their ideas by presenting
information in a variety of forms [for example, text,
images, tables, sounds
Idea: Create a top websites league table and use the
information to help to update their school website links

Curriculum Opportunities
PSHE SEAL Relationships Identify and respect the
differences and similarities between people.
SEAL Changes Preparing to play an active role as
citizens, to recognise choices they can make, and
recognise the difference between right and wrong.
Idea: Whole class circle time - Who would I/you share
my/your information with? A photo? Your name? Your
address? Birth date? Preferences? Password? Email
address? Telephone number? Favourite football team?
Favourite singer?

Age
Category
Yr2

Common Sense Media

Unit

Screen out the

Mean
Pupils learn that
children sometimes
can act like bullies
when they are online.
They explore what
cyberbullying means
and what they can do
when they encounter
it.

Age
Category

Common Sense Media

Unit

Yr2

Using
Keywords
Pupils understand that
keyword searching is
an effective way to
locate information on
the Internet. They
learn how to select
keywords to produce
the best search
results.

Resources

Curriculum Opportunities

Cybersmart - Online Symbols

Teachers resources
Cybersmart - Positive Online Communications
Teachers resources
Cybersmart - Cyberbullying
Teachers resources
Kidscape links to Cyberbullying resources
Beatbullying - Link to website
Teacher resources
YHGfL - Daydreaming
Hull primary school video and teachers resources

PSHE SEAL Say no to bullying to recognize how their

behavior affects other people, to realize consequences of
anti-social and aggressive behaviours such as bullying and
racism on individuals and communities.

Resources

Curriculum Opportunities

Cybersmart - Finding and Identifying Appropriate

Content
Teachers resources
Roar Educate - Searching Online poster
SWGfL - Swiggle
Education search engine and resource site for children
Google Safesearchkids
Search engine for children
Getnetwise - Advice for teachers and parents
How to enable safe searching in online search tools
Common Sense Media - Choosing a Search Site
Lesson plans from a previous version of CSM Digital
Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum.

Literacy Non Fiction persuasion.

ICT - Developing ideas and making things happen, to use
text, tables, images and sound to develop their ideas.
Idea: How does it feel? Use an online digital imagery tool
such as photostory, animoto or http://edu.glogster.com/
to create an eposter to depict how it feels to be the
victim of a bullying incident.

Literacy Non-fiction texts

Idea: Create a class top trumps game, e.g. each pupil is
allocated a country and must locate key information such
as longest river, highest mountain, population and tallest
building.
You could use swiggle to carry out safer searches,
compare usefulness of results to those of a general search
engine such as google.

Age
Category

Common Sense Media

Unit

Yr2

Sites I Like
Pupils discuss criteria
for rating
informational
websites and apply
them to an assigned
site. Pupils learn that
all websites are not
equally good sources
of information.

Resources
CEOP - Hectors World
Cartoons and teacher resources
Netsmartz - Delivery for webster - ebook
Common Sense Media - Choosing a Search Site
Lesson plans from a previous version of CSM Digital
Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum.

Curriculum Opportunities
PSHE SEAL Relationships. Recognise what they like and
dislike.
EYFS Personal, social and emotional development
Shows an interest in classroom activities through
observation or participation. Is confident to try new
activities, initiate ideas and speak in a familiar group
Idea: Play likes and dislikes stations several options
are presented, pupils move around the room to their
most or least favourite option, e.g. colours, pastimes,
animals and sports. Invite pupils to explain their choices
and persuade others to join them.