Questions from Students

Real answers to the questions children and young people are asking.

Created in partnership with Traci Gregory (i-vengers). Unscripted, natural advice for Primary and Secondary ages.

In late 2024 Traci and I responded to some questions from students of primary and secondary schools, these videos are the result.

Use for:

Assembly

Use in an assembly with students either to raise awareness or as a primer for classroom discussion. For example some of the answers we give, do students have any other thoughts, ideas or solutions?

Carry out tasks

For example in one of the Primary videos we explain how to create an easily memorable but very strong password, get the students to practice creating their own password. In a secondary video advice is given to visit the HaveIBeenPwned website to check if any of their email addresses or passwords has been compromised. Get students to check their own email addresses (but you may need to check your internet filter first).

For inspiration

Use these videos to inspire students to create their own videos in school as part of parental engagement, e.g. what would students like their parents to know, what have students been learning in the curriculum etc.?

Primary (KS1/2)

Games, Privacy and Hacking

Why do you need to be a certain age for some games?
I don’t like my Dad checking my phone, how can I stop him?
What can you do if your account has been hacked?

Risk, Strangers and Unkind Messages

What is the percentage of young people at risk online?
What would happen if you received an email from someone you don’t know asking you to meet?
How can I stop people sending me unkind messages, or what can I do about them?

Blocking, Passwords and Social Media

Can someone see if you block, report or mute them?
If someone guesses your password, can they get into more than one account using the same password – and how do you know how strong your password is?
What age do you think is appropriate to have a phone/social media?

Secondary (KS3/4)

Safe Websites, Scammers and Passwords

How do you know if a website is safe?
How can I tell genuine emails from scammers?
How long should a good password be?

Online Reputation, Reporting and 2SA

How easily can your online reputation be affected through what you post on social media?
If I report an account, why does it not get banned?
Is 2-step authentication a really good way to protect your account?

Friends,Information and Advertising.

I don’t have any real friends apart from online friends. How can I keep safe online and how can I tell if some of my online friends are real and not using AI to hide who they are?
Why do people try and get other people’s information?
Can social media platforms steal and sell on your data from one platform to another?

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