Free Safer Internet Day 2024 Education Resources now live
With under three months to go until Safer Internet Day on 6th February 2024 – the official resources of the day in the UK are now available to download for free.
Created by our online safety experts, these resources enable you to embed online safety learning into your lessons to celebrate Safer Internet Day, no matter what age young people you work with!
What’s in the Safer Internet Day Education Resources?
The Safer Internet Day Education Resources are tailored made for educators to use with young people of all ages and all focus on this years Safer Internet Day theme: Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online.
The educational resources include lesson plans, assemblies, things to send home to parents and carers, ways to get involved on social media, and other quick activities you can run with your learners.
The resources are split into four age groups:
- 3-7 year olds
- 7-11 year olds
- 11-14 year olds
- 14-18 year olds
There is also a parents and carers information letter about Safer Internet Day to be shared on your newsletter, printed and sent home to parents or shared on your school or setting’s intranet! Please adapt this wording however you see fit.
The packs are free to download and available in English and Welsh. There are also printer friendly resources towards the end of each pack.
Who are the resources for?
The Education Resources are designed to be used by those working with young people across the UK including classroom teachers, teaching assistants, PSHE leads, youth group leaders and many others!
What is the theme of the resources?
The resources focus around this year’s Safer Internet Day theme of Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online. The packs cover issues such as:
- Young people’s perspective on new and emerging technology
- Using the internet to make change for the better
- The changes young people want to see online
- The things that can influence and change the way young people think, feel and act online and offline
How can I use them?
The resources consist of information about this year’s Safer Internet Day theme, as well as a range of activities you can use with your learners. Each activity varies in length so you can find easy to engage in the day no matter how much time you have to dedicate to it, and the packs contain all of the materials and instructions you need to run each activity.
The assemblies for each age group contain a suggested script as well as on screen visuals to allow you to run this with your learners.
What else can I do?
You can now register as a Safer Internet Day supporter! All you have to do is submit a short sentence about your plans for the day, and then you will appear on our map of supporters across the country and also receive a certificate you can display in your setting.
In the education packs there is also a social media template which your learner can use to showcase the ways to inspire a better internet this Safer Internet Day – we’d love to see how you’ve used the template and the other resources in your setting. Remember to use the hashtag #SaferInternetDay and tag us at @UK_SIC!
What is still to come?
Over the next few months there are many more exciting resources and tools you can use to engage in Safer Internet Day 2024! These include:
Webinar looking at the Safer Internet Day Education Resources
This webinar provides an opportunity to take a closer look at the Education Resources, with advice on how to use these with your learners, and ways you could adapt activities to suit your settings needs.
Top tips for all ages
Our top tips are available for all young people, as well as their parents and carers. These tips are a great way to see how you can apply the learnings from Safer Internet Day into your online lives.
Resources for parents and carers
These resources and advice pages give parents and carers all of the information they need to carry on the Safer Internet Day conversations at home, and also provide answers to their most common online safety questions.
Films
Our films are designed to be used with young people to spark conversations about their lives online and the themes of the day. These films are designed to be used with young people aged 7-17.
Quizzes
Our interactive quizzes are a fun way to test your online safety knowledge, as well as the knowledge of your pupils. These quizzes focus on different scenarios young people may encounter online, and the ways they would navigate them.
Ways to get involved on social media
Our social media pack contains all of the graphics and text you need to get involved in the online Safer Internet Day celebrations. There is also text you can use to engage with the parents and carers in your setting.
About Safer Internet Day
Over the years, Safer Internet Day has become a landmark event in the online safety calendar. Starting as an initiative of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004 and taken up by the Insafe network as one of its earliest actions in 2005, Safer Internet Day has grown beyond its traditional geographic zone and is now celebrated in approximately 170 countries worldwide.
Safer Internet Day 2024 will take place on the 6th of February 2024, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’.
Safer Internet Day is the UK’s biggest celebration of online safety. Each year we cover an online issue or theme that speaks to the things young people are seeing and experiencing online. Created in consultation with young people across the UK, this year Safer Internet Day will be focusing on change online, this includes covering:
- Young people’s perspective on new and emerging technology
- Using the internet to make change for the better
- The changes young people want to see online
- The things that can influence and change the way young people think, feel and act online and offline