Four-week CPD sequence

Talking About Online Life

Online safety CPD for primary school staff, grounded in KCSIE 2025, updated in September 2025, and NSPCC Learning online safety training.

This CPD sequence uses classroom-based scenarios to connect statutory safeguarding expectations with professional reflection on open communication about children's online lives.

Start Week 1

Childlike drawings of speech bubbles, headphones, a controller, a tablet and classroom objects on lined exercise-book paper.

Overview

Four professional practice moments

Week 1

Online life is everyday life

Connect the KCSIE 2025 safeguarding frame and NSPCC conversation guidance to one everyday classroom exchange.

Open Week 1

Week 2

Make online life normal to talk about

Explore how repeated small conversations can make online life feel normal, less secret and easier to raise before something goes wrong.

Open Week 2

Week 3

Spotting natural openings

Practise choosing one calm, proportionate response when online life appears in an ordinary school moment.

Open Week 3

Week 4

A whole-school habit

Choose one small habit that fits your role and helps make online-life conversations part of everyday safeguarding.

Open Week 4