Trial resource - not yet verified for classroom use. This is a starting point to help you build your own lesson, not a finished or approved plan. Cyber Safe with Monkleton is new, and we are shaping this with teachers - please adapt it freely, use what works, and tell us what doesn't so we can improve it. Once it has been shaped and checked with teachers, we will mark it verified. Feedback: cybersafe-feedback@monkleton.io.
Why nothing online really disappears
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This is a starting point, not a script - take what is useful, change what is not, and shape it around your class. It brings a Cyber Safe with Monkleton lesson into the classroom: the behaviour, not just the rule.
The big idea
Once you send something, a copy leaves your control. "Disappearing" messages can be screenshotted, and anything can be forwarded. A good test: if you would not want it on a billboard with your name on it, do not send it.
Learning intentions (adapt to your class)
- I can explain that things I send can be saved and shared.
- I can use the Grandma (or billboard) Test before I send.
- I pause before I send.
A suggested shape
Starter (about 5 minutes)
A photo is sent to one friend with "delete this after". Ask: where could it end up?
Explore (about 15 minutes)
Trace how a private send can travel - a screenshot, a forward, a group chat. Make clear that "disappearing" is a courtesy, not a lock.
Practise (about 10 minutes)
Pupils apply a quick gut-check to examples: would I be happy if my family, my school, or a coach saw this?
Safe Check plenary (about 10 minutes)
Pupils state the rule in their own words: think before you send, because you cannot unsend.
Ready-to-use resources
- Background for you: our guide How safe is it to share photos and videos over messaging apps?.
- To send home: share that guide with families.
In the app
This lesson pairs with an in-app quest in Cyber Safe with Monkleton, so classroom time and screen time reinforce the same habits. The app is in its first previews now, and supporting media is coming soon. Until then, the discussion and activities here stand on their own.
Tell us how it went
This is a trial, and your classroom experience is exactly what will make it better. If you use it, we would love to know what worked and what you changed - email cybersafe-feedback@monkleton.io.
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