Year 9 · RSHE (PSHE) · beta

Media influence: How can I look after myself?

This unit addresses online risks to wellbeing, including protecting personal information, understanding pornography's harmful influence on relationships, recognising online addiction and gambling harms, and responding to trolls and harassment whilst seeking appropriate support.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

Prior knowledge

Pupils should understand from Key Stage 3 basic online safety principles.
Pupils should be familiar with characteristics of healthy relationships from previous units.
Pupils should know from earlier learning how to report harmful online content and access support.

Source curriculum references

How pornography can negatively influence sexual attitudes and behaviours, including by normalising harmful sexual behaviours.
How pornography can negatively influence sexual attitudes and behaviours, including by disempowering some people, especially women, to feel a sense of autonomy over their own body.
Online risks, including the importance of being cautious about sharing personal information online and of using privacy and location settings appropriately to protect information online.
Viewing pornographic content can affect pupils who see it accidentally as well as those who see it deliberately.
Pornography can also portray misogynistic behaviours and attitudes which can negatively influence those who see it.
That websites may share personal data about their users, and information collected on their internet use, for commercial purposes (e.g. to enable targeted advertising).
That pornography presents some activities as normal which many people do not and will never engage in, some of which can be emotionally and/or physically harmful.
That gambling can lead to serious mental health harms, including anxiety, depression, and suicide, and that some gambling products are more likely to cause these harms than others.
How to identify harmful behaviours online (including bullying, abuse or harassment) and how to report, or find support, if they have been affected by those behaviours.
The risks related to online gambling and gambling-like content within gaming, including the accumulation of debt.

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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