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Be an eSafe kid: Use your safety skills for protection online

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About this resource

New for Child Protection Week: A live interactive webinar for Year 5 and 6. Students will discover how to protect themselves online with practical tools such as managing strong passphrases, privacy settings and personal information.

Target audience

Level

Upper primary

Keywords

Accessing support, Online security, Unwanted contact, Privacy and personal information, Permission, Online friends, Boundaries, Critical thinking

Type of resource

Live Virtual Classroom event, teacher notes and student worksheet.

Timeframe

40-minute webinar

Australian curriculum

Key learning areas

Health and Physical Education, Digital Literacy, Humanities and Social Sciences, English.

General capabilities

Literacy, ICT Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding.

Key outcomes

By the end of the learning, students will be able to:

  • recognise and rehearse protective behaviours online, such as managing privacy settings, passphrases and personal information  
  • recognise that body clues can influence their safety and wellbeing online  
  • use help seeking strategies to recognise and address harmful situations online
  • recognise how to access a trusted team and support pathways. 

For more information about this Virtual Classroom webinar, please contact outreach@esafety.gov.au  

Downloads

Teacher Notes coming soon.

Student Worksheet coming soon.

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Please note: These webinars are designed for teachers to use with their students in the classroom. Individual student registrations will not be accepted, as connections to the online platform are limited. If students are learning from home, teachers should register and share their screen with their students. Schools can register for any open session hosted by eSafety or a session hosted by your school jurisdiction.

Open sessions available to all State, Catholic and Independent schools

Session times (Australian Eastern Standard Time):

  • 9 September – 9.30am

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Department of Education WA

Session times (Australian Western Standard Time):

  • 11 September – 9.30am

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Cybermarvel (led by NSW Education)

Session times (Australian Eastern Daylight Time):

  • 28 October – 10.15am  

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Aurora College (NSW Department of Education)

Session times (Australian Eastern Standard Time):

  • 3 September – 9.30am

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  • 8 September – 2.10pm

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