Teaching Resources for Safer Internet Day 2025

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. In 2025, the date is Tuesday 11th February.

The 2025 Safer Internet Day theme is: ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online.’ It will look at how young people can be aware of internet scams and how to protect themselves and others, plus what support is available to them.

If you’re interested in running an assembly with your school, or looking for lesson resources, then here are some sites to consider:

The UK Safer Internet Centre has a range of resources to deliver sessions for Safer Internet Day, for use with all ages and different school settings. From EYFS to 14-18. Access the resources directly here.

The charity Tech She Can are running a series of Live Lessons and assemblies for Safer Internet Day, as well as for other events (check out their British Science Week assemblies too. You can register for the live lessons here: https://techshecan.org/live-assemblies

The BBC will be running a 30 minute live lesson looking at the virtual world of Scam Smashers! The children will need to outsmart the online scammers and digital tricksters. The 30 minute Live Lesson will be available to watch live at 11:00 on Tuesday 11 February on the BBC website and on the CBBC channel. It’ll be available to watch on demand after that.

Access it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/live-lessons/articles/zm9vwsg#zkr8nk7

You can find more resources from BBC Teach that cover different aspects of Online Safety here

Purple Mash has links to their Safer Internet day resources, created by Childnet. They also have a free online safety pack which you can download which features 7 lessons from the Purple Mash Online Safety Scheme of Work, 2BeSafe – Being Safe in a Digital World

Access it here: https://www.2simple.com/blog/safer-internet-day/

Jam Coding provide a pack of safer internet day resources. You’ll need to sign up for more information to access it though. https://jamcoding.com/safer-internet-day/

Twinkl have produced two assembly packs that can be used to give assemblies on Internet Safety Day. One pack for KS1 and one for KS2.

Access them here:
KS1 Assembly Pack
KS2 Assembly Pack

Project Evolve have teaching resources for all aspects of online safety. The Privacy and Security strand would be relevant for this year’s Safer Internet Day topic. It’s free to register and access the resources.

If you’ve know of some more good resources, add them to the comments below!