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Online safety tools and resources for schools and kura

Kete is a resource hub with a range of free-to-use policy guides, classroom resources and other support materials for teachers and school leadership.

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We have you covered with Kete by Netsafe

Whether you need to review policies, download a lesson plan or classroom resource, or develop student user agreements - you'll find it all here.

  • Interactive

    interactive learning

    Online modules for students to access in class

  • Engaging

    engaging students

    Animated episodes with supporting materials

  • Supporting

    supporting each other

    Incident response guides and resources for school communities

  • Protecting

    learning to protect ourselves online

    Policies, plans and guidelines to support school-wide cyber safety

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Why use the Kete?

All the materials you need to support your school, staff and students with online safety and digital citizenship - in one place!

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Intuitive navigation

Find what you need quickly and easily

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Classroom resources

Multi-modal materials for Years 1 to 13

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Policies and procedures

Easy-to-use templates to build customised documents

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Community engagement

Connect with whānau and school communities with our downloadable resources

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Capability assessment

Benchmark digital citizenship capability

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Incident support

Know how to respond to and report digital incidents at school

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Online Safety School Policy

Does your school policy need updating? Check out the recently revised Online Safety School Policy Template, with information and guidance about how to approach the development of a school policy, as well as suggested policy fragments to include in your local version. This template is fully editable, enabling you to use the sections that fit your school needs.

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New Resource: Refreshed Newsletter Packs

This re-imagined resource provides you with bite-size chunks of content on an array of online safety topics and issues - ready for you to copy and paste into your school newsletters and online communications.

Share these messages far and wide within your school communities to raise awareness of online safety and all the helpful resources that are available to support tamariki, rangitahi, parents and whānau.

Capability Review Tool in action with a self-assessment question about partnerships

Self assessment tool for cyber-safety

An interactive self-assessment tool – based on the Netsafe Educator Framework – to help you create a roadmap for developing capability in online safety and digital citizenship across all areas of the school system.

We give you the tools and resources you need

The Kete suite of tools and resources allows schools, kura and homeschoolers to progress with confidence online

  • School tools for leadership and governance

    Advice and resources for senior leadership and boards on developing an online safety culture, preventing harm and minimising the impact when incidents happen.

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  • Teacher resources for all year groups

    Advice and resources for developing an online safety culture, preventing harm and minimising the impact when incidents happen

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  • Easy to use templates and guides

    Useful advise, guides and newsletter inserts you can use to keep your school community up to date with online safety and digital citizenship.

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  • Parent and whanau resources

    YAS is a community for teens who care about the online safety and wellbeing of their peers.

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Latest Resources

Connecting with your school community about online safety and digital citizenship has never been easier. Our new resource contains newsletter content, useful links and images for you to copy and share with your parent community.

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Educator resources with proven results

Check out our collection of inspiring stories and insights from some of the educators and students that Kete has helped so far.

As a teacher and parent, is is great to get some advice about how to approach conversations with children about being safe online.

Anonymous
Primary school, Christchurch

It was a great learning opportunity, a lot of the information was very useful and gave us the tools to be safer online and to help others.

Anonymous
High school, Dunedin

Great facilitator and presentation with realistic view of todays digital landscape.

Anonymous
Primary school, Wanaka

Your advice to open up discussion was excellent, my kids loved being the experts and explaining what they do online.

Anonymous
High school in Queenstown

We were encouraged to give our young people credit, they are getting better at being online. We as educators are helping... but we couldn't do it without Netsafe.

Anonymous
Intermediate school, Canterbury

The YAS programme offered us the chance to help our students stay safe through an educative approach. Our student leader’s voices carries so much more mana.

Anonymous
Principal, Auckland

Netsafe Micro Learns help us to engage students on a new level. It allows us to feel like we can talk to them about the things that are important in their world.

Anonymous
Teacher, Auckland

As a teacher developing digital citizenship in my school, Netsafe have been fantastic to work with. They are responsive, forward-thinking and genuinely care

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FAQ

To help you get started, we’ve put together some easy to follow steps.

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There are three key areas to the Kete that can all be easily navigate from the top menu:

1) School Tools - materials to support school-wide online safety capability such as policies, guidelines, user agreements and templates

2) Teacher Resources - classroom materials including slide decks, facilitation guides, worksheets and interactive online modules for students

3) Capability Review Tool - an interactive assessment to help you understand where you school is at with developing an online safety culture

You can easily add resources to your own 'Kete' by clicking on the bag symbol on any school tool or teacher resource. You can view your favourites by heading to the 'My Kete' button in the top right-hand corner of the logged-in screen.

Resources such as the interactive online modules can be easily shared with students for them to complete in class. When you're on the resource page, you'll see a QR code symbol on the right-hand side of the page under the Share/Print heading. Click this symbol and you'll generate a QR code and link that you can copy and share with your students, enabling them to by=pass the sign-in process. Students will not need to register for a log-in, and can simply complete the resource that has been shared with them.

School tools is the section where you'll find materials to support school-wide online safety capability, such as user agreement templates, policy guidelines and advice on responding to digital incidents. You can filter in this section based on your role, and by the type of resource you're looking for.

Teacher resources is the section where you'll find materials to support online safety education in the classroom, such as slide decks, facilitator guides, interactive online modules and more. You can filter in this section based on the year group you teach, and by the topic you want to teach (for example cyberbullying or digital footprints).

The Capability Review Tool is an interactive assessment to help you understand where you school is at with developing an online safety culture. Covering 7 key areas of capability and comprising of 20 questions, this assessment will provide you with an easy-to-apply benchmark and the ability to create a customised action plan to build school-wide capability in the future.