People we know and people we have never met

Part 1: teacher script

Read the words in the boxes aloud. Show the pictures on the cards, on the stimulus screens or on the activity page as you go.

1. 5 min Step 1: people we know. Sit the class where they can see you. Hold up the cards one at a time: people at home, teacher, crossing patrol, friend, shopkeeper.

   Say: “Today we are thinking about people. Our community is the place where we live: our street, our school, the shops and the park. In our community there are lots of people we know. We know their faces and their names. A grown-up we trust knows them too.”

   Ask: “Who helps you cross the road safely near school?” (The school crossing patrol person. Some people call them the lollipop person.) “Who do you see at the shop every week?” “Who looks after you at home?” Take 3 or 4 answers.

2. 8 min Step 2: people we have never met. Show Screen 1 on page 2 of the stimulus sheet (the game chat).

   Say: “Sometimes people talk to us on a tablet, a phone or a games console. This is a pretend game. A player called SpeedyFox22 has typed: hi! you are really good at this game. what is your name? Have we ever met SpeedyFox22?” (No.) “We do not know who they really are. They might not be a child at all.”

   Show: Screen 2 (a message from an unknown number: Hello! What is your name? Where do you live?) and Screen 3 (a video call from someone unknown). Ask each time: “Do we know this person?” (No, we have never met them.)

   Say: “Most people are kind. But someone we have never met is a stranger, even if they seem friendly. So online we keep our name, where we live and our school private. Here is our rule: If someone I have never met talks to me online, I tell a grown-up I trust. Say it with me.” Say it together twice.

3. 10 min Step 3: sort the pictures. Give each pupil an activity page and each pair a set of cards.

   Show: the 2 small pictures at the top of Task 1. “The smiley house means I know them. The screen with a question mark means I have never met them.”

   Say: “With your partner, put the cards into 2 piles. Then tick one box under each picture in Task 1.”

   Walk round. If a pupil says a game player is “my friend”, ask: “Have you met them in real life, with a grown-up you trust?” If not, they are someone we have never met. Expected: 5 people we know, 3 people we have never met.

4. 12 min Step 4: what should you do? Show the 3 screens again, one at a time, next to Task 2.

   Say: “Look at the 3 small pictures in each row. Tell a grown-up. Reply with my name. Keep it a secret. Let’s think about what might happen after each one.”

   Ask: “What might happen if you reply with your name and where you live?” (Someone we do not know would know where to find us. That is not safe.) “What might happen if you keep it a secret?” (Nobody can help, and it might keep happening.) “What happens if you tell a grown-up you trust?” (They can help, block the person and keep us safe.)

   Say: “You are never in trouble for telling. Draw a ring round the safe choice in each row. Look carefully: the safe picture is in a different place each time.” (Answer: tell a grown-up, every time.)

5. 12 min Step 5: draw and write.

   Say: “In Task 3, draw 2 people you know in your community. Then write their name, or who they are, on the line underneath.”

   Model one on the board: draw a quick person and write my teacher underneath. Write a word bank on the board: my, friend, teacher, Nain, Taid, Gran, Grandad, aunty, uncle, carer, brother, sister, shop. Remind pupils: “Say the word slowly. Listen for each sound. Write a letter for each sound you hear.” Accept sounded-out spellings, such as frend.

6. 8 min Step 6: trace and copy the rule.

   Say: “Our rule in short is: I tell a grown-up. In Task 4, trace over the grey letters first. Then copy the sentence on the empty line. Remember a capital I, finger spaces between the words, the little line in grown-up and a full stop at the end.”

   Model the letters g and p on the board, showing their tails going below the line.

7. 5 min Step 7: share and “I can”.

   Ask: 2 or 3 pupils to show their Task 3 drawings and read their words. Then: “What do we do if someone we have never met talks to us online?” (Tell a grown-up we trust.)

   Read each “I can” line aloud; pupils tick if they agree. Finish by saying the rule together one last time.