Educators of all children aged 9-12 years old.
- Three lesson plans
- Quick activities
- An interactive quiz
- Teaching Guide
This toolkit explores problematic online sexual behaviour, with a focus on online sexual harassment e.g. bullying or harmful behaviour online based on gender or sexual orientation stereotypes, body-shaming, nudity and sexually explicit content.
In resources that are used or seen by children,we use the term ‘cyberbullying’ and refer to the specific type – cyberbullying that uses gender stereotypes, body shaming or nude images. This is because we know the words ‘sexual’ and ‘harassment’ may not be understood, used or appropriate for 9-12 year olds.
- To support educators in delivering high quality PSHE/PSE and relationships education lessons.
- To give children a safe space to discuss, explore and challenge peer to peer online sexual harassment e.g. bullying or harmful behaviour online based on gender or sexual orientation stereotypes, body-shaming, nudity and sexually explicit content.
- To discuss with children how they can be good friends online.
- To raise awareness of this issue to prevent it from becoming normalised.
- To give children the confidence to report unacceptable online behaviour.
This toolkit for 9-12 year olds follows on from the creation of the ‘Step Up, Speak Up!’ toolkit for 13-17 year olds. Feedback on these resources showed the need and desire for a toolkit to address this topic with a younger age group; this is where the beginnings of online sexual harassment were being noticed, and a need to challenge it early was identified.
Find more information about the project and its beginnings here.
This toolkit focuses on peer-to-peer online sexual harassment (taking place between children who know, or know of, each other).
This is not a resource about online grooming. For further advice and resources to address adult sexual behaviour towards children online, or to report this issue or any other concerns around online grooming, please visit ceop.police.uk.
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