dcf.cymru stimulus sheet · PSE / Well-being · Year 8

Six scenario cards

Every name and handle on this sheet is invented. Cut the cards out along the lines and deal them round. Nobody is being described.

Cover teacher — how to use these

Print one sheet per group of four and cut into six cards, or leave the sheet whole and work down it. No computers needed. If a pupil says “this happened to me”, do not take details in front of the class — take their name and pass it to the class teacher or the safeguarding lead the same day.

Card 1 — the pile-on

You post a photo of yourself at a skatepark. Within an hour there are nineteen replies. Most are fine. Four are not: “why would you post this”, “lol who told you that was a good idea”, and two worse ones from @dragon_skater_07 and @vale_boy_2411. Two people you thought were friends have liked them.

What is actually happening here? What do you do in the first five minutes?

Card 2 — the friendly stranger

An account called @talent_scout_cymru messages you. It says it runs a youth sports academy, that your skating is “seriously good”, and asks you to carry on the chat on a different app because “this one is rubbish for video”. Then it asks which school you go to and what time you finish.

Which single detail in this message matters most? What do you do?

Card 3 — the screenshot

You told one friend, privately, that you did badly in a test and were upset about it. That friend has screenshotted the message and posted it into a group chat of fourteen people “as a joke”. People are replying with laughing faces.

Who has done something wrong here, and what do you want to happen next?

Card 4 — the fake you

Someone has set up @ll.roberts.real using your name and a photo taken from your account. It is following people in your year and posting comments that sound like you but are not. Two people have already asked you why you said something you never said.

What is the fastest route to getting this taken down?

Card 5 — the rating thread

A group chat you are in starts posting photos of people in your year and rating them out of ten. You have not posted anything. Someone tags you and writes “your turn”. You do not want to join in, but you do not want to be the one who ruins it either.

What are your options, and what does each one cost you?

Card 6 — the giveaway

@freebie.drops.uk replies to your comment saying you have won a games console. To “verify that you are a real person” it asks you to send your username and password, and says the prize expires in two hours.

Name the two warning signs. What do you do with the message?

The five moves — use these words in your answers

  1. Screenshot it. Capture the message, the handle and the date before anything is deleted. That is your evidence.
  2. Do not retaliate. Replying, insulting back, or posting about it turns you into a participant and muddies the evidence.
  3. Report it in the app. Every major platform has a report button on the post and on the account. Use both.
  4. Block. Blocking stops the contact. It is not admitting anything and it is not running away.
  5. Tell a trusted adult. A parent or carer, a form tutor, head of year, or the school’s safeguarding lead. If you would rather talk to someone outside school, Childline is free and confidential on 0800 1111.

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