With technology playing an ever-increasing part of children’s lives, the importance of teaching e-safety in schools has never been more important.
The Department for Education (DfE) has highlighted that ‘it is important to teach pupils about the underpinning knowledge and behaviours that can help pupils to navigate the online world safely and confidently, regardless of the device, platform or app’. (June 2019)
Children growing up in today’s world are living two lives simultaneously; offline with their family, friends and peers, and online with all the opportunities, challenges and risks that this can present.
As part of the curriculum, e-safety and how to deal with this ‘online life’ is a key priority for schools. There are many subjects across the school curriculum which deal with e-safety; Relationships (and Sex) Education, Health Education, Computing and Citizenship, to name but a few.
