eSafety and Online Safety For Kids - Education Resources

Access the School Facilitation Guide to learn how to create a whole-school approach to eSafety and get your wider community on board.

Including an email template to parents, guidance on how to run the all-important information session (complete with slides) and advice for teachers and school leaders, this School Facilitation Guide will take the stress out of teaching eSafety in-house. It can even provide a great supplement to externally delivered programs or professional learning for teachers and teach you what to look out for.

Consider sharing this program with other parents in your school to get a bit of momentum going and send a letter to your school Principal to get your school involved. You can also look at the Take It Home Resource Pack and explore some further reading. The most important thing you can do for your child is be informed! Even if your school doesn’t decide to use this education package, you can still help your child with the resources.

Consider sharing this program with other parents in your school to get a bit of momentum going and send a letter to your school Principal to get your school involved. You can also look at the Take It Home Resource Pack and explore some further reading. The most important thing you can do for your child is be informed! Even if your school doesn’t decide to use this education package, you can still help your child with the resources.

Niclés Bestel, Psychologist and Consultant, MPsych (Clinical), GradDipPsych, DipCouns, BA, EMDRAA

Niclés Bestel is a child and adolescent psychologist who has extensive experience working in various counselling, community mental health and school wellbeing settings. Niclés has a particular interest in working with trauma and dissociation. Niclés provides counselling and support to children, adolescents and families in a school setting and as a Practice Director of Aspire Wellness and Psychology. Cool Australia commissioned Niclés to research the topic of online safety and child sexual exploitation. She provided Cool Australia with a detailed scoping report outlining best practice, the latest research and proposed activities and resources. This report formed the foundation of the eSafety for Kids lessons. Niclés also conducted a thorough review of the lessons and support materials, providing detailed feedback on creating safety in the classroom and scaffolding the activities to ensure they were developmentally appropriate.

Focus group

Cool Australia ran a focus group with primary teachers and parents to determine the best way to approach a whole-school model of support for the eSafety for Kids education package. Parents were allowed to share how they want to be involved in this aspect of their child's education (which was 'heavily'), and teachers could share what they felt comfortable tackling in class and what they felt needed to be done at home. The feedback from this session greatly informed our Take It Home Resource Pack and the School Facilitation Guide.

Aligned with the Australian curriculum, The Tweeting Galah cyber safety children’s book series offers a unique and entertaining approach to teaching primary-aged children how to navigate the online world safely and healthily. The four books in the series are vibrantly illustrated and include reflection questions at the end to guide classroom discussion. Augmented reality experiences are embedded within the books, offering a simple and safe technological experience without complicated preparation. The Tweeting Galah series is written by West Australian author Kim Maslin and illustrated by John Field. The Tweeting Galah series is available in both print and eBook format. You can purchase the series here: https://thetweetinggalah.com/.