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Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education
(RSE) and Health Education Draft statutory guidance for
governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals,
senior leadership teams, teachers
February 2019
(What this means to Online Safety Awareness)
Today’s is the first generation of children who are learning about relationships and sex in
an online world. Many of the experiences that are fundamental to growing up, like building
friendships, testing parental boundaries and exploring sexuality, are complicated by
growing up online. The risks are not new. Problems like pornography and bullying have
challenged previous generations. But the Internet has amplified the risks. It is right that we
take a fundamentally new approach to preparing our children to tackle these risks.
By the end of Primary School: (pg 20)
Online relationships –
Pupils should know
• that people sometimes behave differently online, including by pretending to be
someone they are not.
• that the same principles apply to online relationships as to face-to face relationships,
including the importance of respect for others online including when we are anonymous.
• the rules and principles for keeping safe online, how to recognise risks, harmful content
and contact, and how to report them.
• how to critically consider their online friendships and sources of information including
awareness of the risks associated with people they have never met.
• how information and data is shared and used online. Being safe Pupils should know
• what sorts of boundaries are appropriate in friendships with peers and others (including
in a digital context).
• about the concept of privacy and the implications of it for both children and adults;
including that it is not always right to keep secrets if they relate to being safe.
• that each person’s body belongs to them, and the differences between appropriate and
inappropriate or unsafe physical, and other, contact.
• how to respond safely and appropriately to adults they may encounter (in all contexts,
including online) whom they do not know.