At the start of each half term, children get taught a lesson on one for the areas of online safety. Our online safety curriculum derives from Project Evolve. The learning is enhanced using websites such as Childnet, BBC Own it and SMART. By the time the children leave Ightenhill, we aim for the pupils to be confident on how to protect themselves online. 

The 4 key categories of risk 

Our approach to online safety is based on addressing the following categories of risk: 

• Content – being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful content, such as pornography, fake news, racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicide, anti-Semitism, radicalisation and extremism 
• Contact – being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users, such as peer-to-peer pressure, commercial advertising and adults posing as children or young adults with the intention to groom or exploit them for sexual, criminal, financial or other purposes 
•    Conduct – personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm, such as making, sending and receiving explicit images (e.g. consensual and non-consensual sharing of nudes and semi-nudes and/or pornography), sharing other explicit images and online bullying; and  
•    Commerce – risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and/or financial scam