Planning

Online safety lessons for KS3 and KS4

What the updated RSHE guidance expects secondary schools to teach from September 2026, what a good online safety lesson actually looks like, how to sequence across both key stages — and free classroom-ready activities to start with.

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Evidence

How to evidence online safety teaching for Ofsted

Where online safety teaching sits in the November 2025 inspection framework, the six things that make your evidence credible, the gaps that undermine it — and a termly routine that keeps you ready without extra workload.

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Safeguarding topic

Sextortion: what schools need to know

How financially motivated sexual extortion targets teenagers — fast, scripted and aimed mostly at boys — the classroom messages that actually protect, and the response national guidance asks for when a student discloses.

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Teaching topic

Teaching deepfakes and AI-generated content

Why "spot the fake" checklists fail as the models improve, the six messages that hold up, what the law now says about AI-generated images — and how to sequence it all across KS3 and KS4.

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Teaching topic

Phishing and scam awareness lessons for teenagers

Nearly half of UK 8–17-year-olds have already been scammed online. Why "check for dodgy spelling" checklists fail, the six messages that outlive any scam format, the scams actually reaching teenagers — and how to sequence it across KS3 and KS4.

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More guides on the way
Next up: group chat safety and online bullying. For what's circulating among UK teens right now, see On the Radar — updated as new scam formats emerge, human-reviewed before anything is published.
Cloak for Schools
The platform behind the guides.

Interactive online safety lessons sequenced across KS3 and KS4, a lesson plan on every lesson, and a teacher dashboard that records what was taught — offered as a per-school annual subscription.

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