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Termly Online Safety Planning Calendar
A termly online-safety planning calendar linking PSHE delivery, parent communications, and governor reporting across the academic year.
PSHE leads, DSLs, and senior leaders planning the annual online safety programme1 hour to customise per academic year
Online safety education works best when it is planned across the year, not bolted on around Safer Internet Day. This calendar gives schools a termly structure that links three strands — pupil PSHE delivery, parent communications, and governor reporting — so the same topic is reinforced from multiple angles in the same term. The calendar maps to the statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education content and to the online safety strand of the computing curriculum, and it leaves space for the school to insert topical issues such as a viral platform, a local incident, or a new piece of legislation.
What's included
Autumn term: digital footprint and identity, with a focus on settling new Year 7 and Year 1 cohorts
Spring term: relationships online, peer-on-peer abuse prevention, and Safer Internet Day
Summer term: transitions, summer holiday safety, and managing screen time over the break
Parent communications cadence: one newsletter per half-term linked to the pupil topic
Governor reporting points: termly DSL report and annual full-board review
PSHE curriculum mapping to RSHE statutory content and computing online safety strand
Flexible incident response slots to swap in topical issues without disrupting the plan