Online safety: Year 2
Investigating online safety, including what happens to information posted online, how to keep personal information private and how permission is given or denied in online spaces.
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Online safety: Year 2
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain what is meant by online information.
- Recognise what information is safe to be shared online.
- Explain why we need passwords and what makes a strong password.
- Understand that they need to ask permission before sharing content online and explain why.
- Understand that they have the right to deny their permission to information about them being shared online.
- Say who they can ask for help with online worries.
- Use some strategies to work out if online information is reliable or not.
Suggested prior learning
Online safety: Year 1
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: What happens when I post online?
Lesson 2: How do I keep my things safe online?
Lesson 3: It’s my choice
Lesson 4: Is it true?
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Resources
Unit resources
Computing
Knowledge organiser: Computing – Y2 Online safety
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Year 2, Online Safety".
Computing
Vocabulary display – Computing Y2: Online safety: Year 2
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Online safety: Year 2 unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
RSE and PSHE