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Even platforms we see as “safe” can expose

children to bullying, hate speech, or
addictive content, with YouTube coming out
as very risky in a variety of areas. Similarly,
X and Reddit should be complete no-goes
for our children.

But this is not a message of fear. It is a
message of partnership and hope that we
can turn this digital tidal wave to our

advantage.

“Teaching children to
Discover: Helping

Children Explore Safely navigate the
online world safely is
Our vision begins with discovery. Children
learn best when their curiosity is as essential as
encouraged and when they are guided in teaching them to cross

how to explore the world around them -
including the digital world. the road.”

At Abuja Prep School, we model these
habits every day: – UK Safer Internet Centre.

• showing children how to search safely,
• teaching them to question information
and verify sources rather than accept Develop: Building Skills

online information blindly,
• helping children understand that for a Future We Cannot
everything posted online leaves a
footprint. Yet See

But we want Abuja Prep students to One of the most extraordinary challenges of
discover responsibly. The excitement of modern education is this: we are preparing
exploration should never come at the cost of children for jobs that do not yet exist. By
safety - and with shared supervision some estimates, 80% or more of the jobs
between home and school, it doesn’t have that our current Primary School children
to. will work in fall into this category. Again,
this can be exhilarating or terrifying,
depending on how we approach the issue.

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