Safer Internet Day 2025

Today we celebrated ‘Safer Internet Day’. The aim of the day is to raise awareness of Internet safety, promoting positive and responsible usage.  This year’s topic is “Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online”. This is important as over one million people in the UK were tricked by online scams last year. As a school, we discussed what this means and found the meaning of key vocabulary: online, deception and scam.

Following an amazing whole-school assembly, led by Mr. Taylor, pupils in EYFS read Buddy the Dog’s Internet Safety Story and completed follow up activities to support their learning. Key Stage 1 pupils were challenged to complete “The Great Online Safety Quest” as a class and complete independent activities to solve puzzles and spot online scams.

Pupils in Key Stage 2 all took part in a live interactive lesson from the BBC called ‘Scam Smashers’. This helped pupils to spot scams online by looking for the following: Sounds too good to be true, Content you did not expect, Asks for personal information, Money or trade request. They then completed a range of activities to reinforce the learning, vocabulary and key points. We also learned about ‘phishing scams’ and the importance of having a strong password.

A strong password should have:

Random words

One number

One special symbol: E.g. ! @ %

A mixture of capital and lowercase letters

Safer Internet Day is a great day to remind us all of the dangers on being online. Please be aware of possible scams, and stop and think, “Is this too good to be true?”