What is Gooseberry Planet?
Gooseberry Planet is an award-winning educational software platform designed to educate children, teachers and parents about online safety. It comprises four products: Gooseberry Play, Gooseberry Guru and two e-learning CPD courses on Safeguarding and the Prevent Duty.
Gooseberry Play provides ready-made resources to enable schools to teach online safety to 5-13 year olds. It uses game-based learning as part of a comprehensive package of teaching resources including digital workbooks and short online games to reinforce teaching and make learning fun. It helps schools meet their statutory obligations and delivers detailed results to prove compliance.
There are 60 lessons in 5 different age levels. These are designed around scenarios which children may face online and are mapped against the online safety aspects of the computing, RSE & Health curricula and the UKCIS framework Education for a connected world.
Why should I use Gooseberry Planet?
Serving the Whole School Community
Unique Learning Experience
A Comprehensive E-Safety Toolkit
Demonstrates a Whole School Approach
Stay Up-to-Date
Embed Learning with an Ongoing Course
Comprehensive Results
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In this digital age, where children have devices at their fingertips from a young age and often use them unsupervised, developing the knowledge and strategies to stay safe online is an essential life skill. Education needs to start young and to be delivered regularly throughout their schooling to help them develop the digital resilience needed to cope with online risks and challenges.
Gooseberry Alerts contain practical e-safety tips and information for you to share amongst your school community. We keep on top of the latest e-safety research, trending apps and online risks to enable you to be informed and prepared.
Free of Charge
Gooseberry Alerts are free of charge for all UK schools. They are sent monthly and cover a range of e-safety topics.
Stay Up to Date
We focus on what is happening in the online space, to help keep online issues topical and relevant.
Start a Conversation
Alerts help parents and teachers understand current and emerging risks and to initiate conversations with their children.
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News

Teens more likely to use alcohol and marijuana if their friends post about it on social media
Adolescents are more likely to drink and smoke weed if their friends posted online about it, research has found.

Social media firms urged to adopt technology to detect sexual abuse
The Home Secretary has called on social media platforms to adopt technology to detect and remove sexual abuse of children.

Online Safety Bill: Tech firms to be accountable for algorithms that push harmful content to young people
Social media companies will be forced to change their algorithms – which have been heavily criticised for pushing harmful content to youngsters.
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