To celebrate this year's Safer Internet Day, my pupils from Classes 2, 5, and 6 took part in a variety of creative and collaborative activities, exploring how to stay safe, kind, and responsible online.
Class 2 pupils began by raising their hands to show how many of them use the Internet. They talked about the different ways they use it—playing games, watching videos, listening to songs, and learning. Afterwards, they added their sentences to a colourful joint poster in Canva. Together, they chose Copilot’s image of Zorba with a sailor’s hat and a seagull, and some recorded their sentences with ChatterPix Kids.
- Protect yourself by not sharing private data.
- Being kind online means supporting others with positive words.
- Do not share private data with strangers.
- If someone threatens me, I tell my dad, and I never bully others.
- If I am kind, others won’t attack me.
- Be good.
They also added one more important rule—We never click on pop-up ads!—to a collaborative poster of eSafety rules with friends from the English Quest project.
Class 6 pupils took part in several creative and thought-provoking activities.
As part of the Green & Safe Online activity of the Green Pages project, they read fake news shared by their international friends, created their own examples, and exchanged them with others.
In mixed international teams of the Skills 4 Life in My Hat project, one group prepared drawings of eSafety tips with Copilot’s help (Be careful what you download), while others recorded rules with ChatterPix Kids (Keep your antivirus programme up to date. Avoid suspicious links. Don’t share personal information with strangers online.).
With their green hat on, one group recorded parts of a collaborative comic strip drama using ChatterPix Kids: We can stop the monster! Do not share personal information. Use strong passwords. Tell your parents or teacher. Think before you click!
Another group researched digital rights and responsibilities and suggested creative ways to run a positive digital campaign: Make fun posters. Share kind messages. Use hashtags like #BeKindOnline. Post videos that show respect. Create a digital comic strip about friends helping each other online.
One more group collaborated on an e-book of eSafety rules. They discussed different problems people face in the digital world (Warning! Virus detected!), gave advice (Never post your address or private pictures. Don’t try risky challenges you see in videos—report them instead.), and prepared posters using suggestions from partner schools (Turn off mindless scrolling – Turn on learning & creating).
As members of Future Savers, they answered a poll and shared comments on the forum about the good and bad sides of the Internet:
- We should use the Internet, but we must be responsible for the consequences.
- It is good if we use it for homework, but bad if we spend too much time playing games.
- It is important to have limits for Internet use.
They also discussed eSafety rules while playing a collaborative game.
My pupils showed that learning about eSafety can be simple, creative, and fun when we work together.
