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.
Programme instructors: 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.
Featured
Speakers:
Dr Susie Davies
Dr Susie Davies is available for keynotes, large-scale events, online webinars, teacher/leader training, podcasts and media bookings. Bring her clinical expertise and practical digital wellness strategies to your community or platform by getting in touch below—or for corporate bookings, please visit our dedicated corporate page.
Alessandra Di Lorenzo
Alessandra delivers our popular AI, Attention & Algorithms Parent Talk, and is also available for related online webinars and podcasts.
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.
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
Training Structure
Each training day includes three 1.5-hour online sessions.
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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
Curriculum links:
Mental wellbeing | Online and media | Relationships | Privacy and digital footprint
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Understanding Algorithms, Digital Systems and Online Behaviour
Led by Alessandra Di Lorenzo & Dr Susie Davies - 1.5 hours online
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
Curriculum links:
AI and digital systems | Critical thinking | Attention and wellbeing | Online behaviour
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From Algorithms to Attitudes: Safeguarding Young People in the Age of the Manosphere
Led by Dr Susie Davies - 1.5 hours online
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
Curriculum links:
Safeguarding | Respectful relationships | Equality and empathy | Online harms
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.