Safer Internet Day 2025 – Live Lesson

Help us spot the scams in this interactive Safer Internet Day 2025 Live Lesson.

What is Safer Internet Day?

Safer Internet Day is the UK’s biggest celebration of online safety. Each year Safer Internet Day covers online issue or themes that speak to the things young people are seeing and experiencing online.

The 2025 Safer Internet Day theme is: ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online.'

Safer Internet Day is co-ordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre in partnership with Childnet.

What does the Safer Internet Day 2025 Live Lesson include?

Join Joel Mawhinney and Maddie Moate in this online safety lesson for Safer Internet Day, as we step into the virtual world of Scam Smashers!

In this exciting game, players must outsmart digital tricksters to protect their personal information. Can your class work together, use their detective skills, and make it to the end of the Live Lesson to beat the scammers once and for all?

This curriculum-linked lesson for 7–11 year-olds, created in partnership with Childnet, encourages young people to discuss and respond to online safety issues, helping them navigate the digital world with confidence.

Bitesize for Teachers has a wealth of online safety resources for teachers to use with pupils, including videos, articles, and quizzes. These collections explore important aspects of online safety, such as online bullying, managing online information, privacy and security, and copyright and ownership.

The 30 minute Live Lesson is available to watch now on this page and on BBC iPlayer.

How to get involved:

This programme was live and accompanied by a live website commentary feed for schools.

We added as many messages as we could to this live commentary page on the day of the Live Lesson.

Please do not send any more emails about this lesson, as they will not be included.

What KS2 curriculum is covered in this Live Lesson?

• National Curriculum, England - KS2 Health Education and Computing
• National Curriculum, Northern Ireland - KS2 Thinking Skills & Personal Capabilities
• Curriculum for Excellence, Scotland - 1st and 2nd Level Health & Wellbeing and Technologies
• Curriculum for Wales - Progression steps 2 and 3 Relationships Education and Science & Technology

Learning objectives:

Pupils should:

• Know the importance of keeping personal information private.
• Understand how to keep safe online and use technology safely.
• Know where and how to report concerns and gets support with issues online.
• Understand that people sometimes behave differently online, including by pretending to be someone they are not.

Teaching guide and activity sheets

These resources can be downloaded or printed to use alongside the Live Lesson.

Where next?