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August 1, 2025 Cyber Safety | Cyber Experts | cyberbullying | online safety | digital wellbeing

ySafe | Your Cybersafety Education Isn’t Broken. But it Needs to Evolve.

You’ve probably felt it yourself, that moment when a student issue online catches you off guard. One week, it’s a new platform. The next it’s something no one saw coming. And you’re left thinking: Are we doing enough? We hear that all the time from wellbeing leads, DPs, and Heads of Year across Australia. You’re doing your best to stay on top of it, yet the goalposts keep ...

 
April 6, 2022 Cyber Safety | online safety | viral content | huggy wuggy
Cyber Safety Alert: Huggy Wuggy - What it is and how schools can respond

A razor-toothed teddy bear character, known as Huggy Wuggy, has been appearing in videos that could upset younger children. While there is no need for panic, police have been warning parents and schools to be vigilant of younger children ...

 
December 8, 2021 Cyber Safety | classroom management | schools | online safety | Policy
Co-constructing online safety agreements with students

Having students sign agreements around how they will use and not use online spaces and digital devices has long been common practice in schools/kura. Beyond simply being a ‘one size fits all’ tool for compliance, agreements about how ...

 
October 21, 2021 online safety | digital wellbeing | Policy | how-to
How to manage online incidents at your school

It doesn’t matter how proactive schools are in supporting young people to build the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed to make safe and informed choices online, sometimes things happen that you can’t plan or anticipate.

 
May 19, 2021 online safety
Online Safety Self-Review for Schools

With so many competing priorities for schools, finding time to reflect on approaches to online safety and wellbeing is challenging. To help your school overcome barriers preventing reflection, we have created a simple Online Safety ...

 
February 22, 2021 remote learning | online safety | digital wellbeing
COVID crisis highlights need for greater focus on student online safety

Practically overnight, the pandemic forced our school communities to transition to new modes of teaching and learning. With remote instruction now firmly established as part of the new normal, student cyber safety has emerged as an urgent ...

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