Expert-led Digital RSE and Safeguarding training for secondary schools.
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4.5 hours of live online training.
Delivered three times across the academic year, so your whole team can attend.
Recordings provided for asynchronous learning.
Investment: £749 for secondary schools. Early bird rate £599 until 10th September 2026.
Programme facilitators: Dr Susie Davies and Alessandra Di Lorenzo.
Support your staff to deliver the 2026 Department for Education guidance with this whole-school, year-long CPD programme. Combining live online training, ready-to-use resources, and a clear progression from digital wellbeing to safeguarding, it gives your team practical support they can use straight away.
Meet your facilitators
Dr Susie Davies
Dr Susie Davies is a GP with a special interest in adolescent mental health. She is the founder of Papaya and a regular media contributor, and she is passionate about improving mental health outcomes for today’s adolescents. She founded Papaya eight years ago after recognising the link between technology use and poor mental health in students. She is the author of The Healthy Selfie: How to Like Yourself in the Digital Age and is an active voice in public debate, including supporting the recent social media ban.
Alessandra Di Lorenzo
Alessandra Di Lorenzo is a media executive, published author and speaker who explains how the internet works in simple, practical terms. With more than 20 years in senior leadership roles across international brands, she brings an insider view of the systems shaping digital life today. She is also a TEDx speaker, author and teaches related topics at ESCP Business School in London.
Programme overview
This three-part teacher training programme supports schools in delivering the updated secondary RSHE curriculum, with a strong focus on digital wellbeing, online influence, AI, safeguarding, and respectful relationships.
It reflects the DfE’s revised guidance on online safety, harmful content, deepfakes, misogyny, sexual harassment, and wider safeguarding concerns linked to digital culture.
It also equips teachers with practical strategies to navigate the upcoming social media ban with pupils, supporting them to manage questions, facilitate informed discussion, and build young people’s critical thinking, resilience, and healthy digital habits during a period of change.
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Digital RSE curriculum CPD training for KS3
Three live sessions on 3 different dates
Access to recordings
Access to Teacher Training Slides
Access to KS3 Workshops Slides
Access to Workshop training material
Provision of KS3 Student Booklet
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Choose Your Online Session
Recording and all content will also available to watch at own your convenience.
Thursday 24 September 2026 | 9:00am–2:30pm
Monday 2 November 2026 | 9:00am–2:30pm
Wednesday 3 March 2027 | 1:00pm–6:30pm
£749 for whole school access for one year.
Early bird rate £599 until 10th September 2026.
Bespoke packages available on request
Why choose The Papaya CPD Programme?
Supports confident Digital RSE delivery
Helps staff understand the realities young people face online
Links directly to statutory curriculum requirements
Includes classroom resources and workshop materials
Designed for whole-school impact
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Mike Stratford - Headteacher
Training Structure
Each training day includes three 1.5-hour online sessions.
Session 1 - Digital Wellbeing and Self Esteem
Helping Young People Thrive in a Digital World
Led by Dr Susie Davies
This session explores how smartphones, social media, and online culture affect young people’s mental health, confidence, identity, and emotional wellbeing. Teachers will examine social comparison, validation-seeking, influencer culture, and compulsive screen use and consider how to support healthier digital habits.
The session also explores how to support, in view of the forthcoming social media ban, young people to come off social media, develop emotional resilience, online privacy and understand digital footprints.
Staff leave with:
Classroom activities
Discussion exercises
Student resources
Our KS3 workshop: How to Thrive in the Digital Age
Session 2 - AI, Attention & Connection
Understanding Algorithms, Digital Systems and Online Behaviour
Led by Alessandra Di Lorenzo & Dr Susie Davies
This session explains how AI and algorithms shape what young people see, think, and do online. It explores AI chatbots, recommendation systems, misinformation, deepfakes, and persuasive technology, helping staff support pupils to think critically and use AI responsibly.
Staff leave with:
Practical classroom resources
Discussion activities
Student materials
Our KS3 workshop: How to Connect in the Digital Age
Session 3 - Online Influence, Misogyny & Safeguarding
From Algorithms to Attitudes: Safeguarding Young People in the Age of the Manosphere
Led by Dr Susie Davies
This session looks at how influencer culture, social media, and online communities can shape attitudes towards women, relationships, masculinity, and identity. It covers misogyny, harmful stereotypes, coercion, pornography, radicalisation, and other safeguarding risks in the digital age.
Staff leave with:
Safeguarding insight and guidance
Practical discussion tools
Workshop resources
A KS3 workshop exploring online harms and respectful relationships
Programme bonus—includes training to deliver three distinct 1-hour workshops for your KS3 pupils.
See overview for detailed workshop outlines.
Time to build a coordinated digital RSE and safeguarding approach
Connect your staff with expert-led training alongside secondary schools nationwide.
View the 2026–2027 live schedule and pricing details, then book your team.