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Kindergarten – 1st · Life & Trade Skills

Being Safe Online: The First Talk

Simple, non-frightening rules for a child's first time on a tablet or computer.

Practice sets

Read the teaching notes, then let them practice on screen or print a sheet. Every set makes fresh problems each time, and you can change the numbers to match where your child is.

What to do when something feels wrong

Say this to your child first

The whole lesson at this age is one sentence: if something on the screen makes you feel funny, come and find me. Not "was it bad" — just come and find me. Practise it as a drill so it is automatic before it is ever needed.

Watch out for

A child hiding a scare because they think they will be in trouble. Say out loud, more than once, that they will never be in trouble for telling you.

How this works

  1. 1. Read the notes above and do one problem together.
  2. 2. Open Practice and let them work on screen. Anything with one right answer is marked instantly; written answers are shown to you side by side with a good one, for you to judge.
  3. 3. Or open Print a sheet for a paper worksheet with an answer key for you.

First safety words

Say this to your child first

Six words, said out loud with real examples. "Private" means our address. "Stranger" means someone we do not know, online counts too.

Watch out for

Learning the word without the example. Always attach it to something real in your house.

How this works

  1. 1. Read the notes above and do one problem together.
  2. 2. Open Practice and let them work on screen. Anything with one right answer is marked instantly; written answers are shown to you side by side with a good one, for you to judge.
  3. 3. Or open Print a sheet for a paper worksheet with an answer key for you.

What would you do?

Say this to your child first

Read each one aloud and let them answer in their own words before you show the answer. The point is not the exact wording — it is that their first instinct becomes 'tell a grown-up', not 'sort it out myself'.

Watch out for

A child who says they would handle it alone so as not to be a bother. Tell them plainly: you will never be in trouble for telling me.

How this works

  1. 1. Read the notes above and do one problem together.
  2. 2. Open Practice and let them work on screen. Anything with one right answer is marked instantly; written answers are shown to you side by side with a good one, for you to judge.
  3. 3. Or open Print a sheet for a paper worksheet with an answer key for you.

Safety words — say what it means

Say this to your child first

This is the same words as before, turned around: now they see the meaning and have to produce the word. Recognising a word is easy; remembering it is the harder half, and the half that sticks.

Watch out for

Getting stuck and giving up. Give them the first sound of the word rather than the whole answer.

How this works

  1. 1. Read the notes above and do one problem together.
  2. 2. Open Practice and let them work on screen. Anything with one right answer is marked instantly; written answers are shown to you side by side with a good one, for you to judge.
  3. 3. Or open Print a sheet for a paper worksheet with an answer key for you.