Media Navigated for Primary
Navigate the digital world with confidence
Media Navigator Helping children navigate the digital world with confidence
Children are growing up in digital spaces that shape how they learn, play, communicate and understand the world. Information is always within reach, but knowing how to question it, interpret it and respond wisely cannot be taken for granted.
Media Navigator is Bounce Forward’s six-lesson primary curriculum, helping children build the critical thinking, emotional awareness and practical skills they need to engage with digital media confidently and responsibly.
Designed around children’s lived experience, it helps schools prepare pupils not simply to use technology, but to understand the world it creates around them.
Lessons
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Media Navigator: Introduction to Media Literacy and Social Media Primary
This opening lesson sets the stage for the Media Navigated curriculum by introducing students to the concept of media literacy and examining the role social media plays in their lives. Students explore what it means to be a critical and informed media consumer in the modern digital landscape.
Media Navigator: Fantasy and Reality Primary
Students investigate the gap between curated online personas and real life. This lesson explores how social media often presents an idealised version of reality and helps students develop the critical thinking skills to distinguish between fantasy and reality in digital content.
Media Navigator: Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Platforms Primary
A balanced and nuanced exploration of social media's benefits and drawbacks. Students critically examine both the positive opportunities and the potential harms of different social platforms, building the knowledge base to make more informed choices about their own digital engagement.
Media Navigator: Benefits of Social Platforms Primary
Diving deeper into the positive side of social media, this lesson helps students recognise and leverage the genuine benefits of digital platforms — from building communities and accessing information to creative expression and social activism. Students learn how to use platforms intentionally and positively.
Media Navigator: Creating Identity Maps Primary
Students engage in a creative and reflective activity to map their online and offline identities. This lesson helps young people understand how their sense of self is constructed and how their digital presence relates to (and sometimes differs from) their authentic identity.
Media Navigator: Presenting Online Identity Maps Primary
The culminating lesson of the Media Navigated course, where students present and share their identity maps. This collaborative session allows students to discuss their digital identities, learn from each other's perspectives, and consolidate their media literacy skills.
About the organisation
Bounce Forward
Bounce Forward is the UK’s psychological-fitness charity.
We help children and young people — and the adults and environments around them — develop the understanding, skills and shared language to regulate, recover and adapt through challenge, change and everyday life.
Our work brings together mental resilience and emotional wellbeing, shifting the focus upstream: building capability before crisis, rather than waiting for something to go wrong. We translate evidence from psychology, resilience research, cognitive behavioural approaches and positive psychology into practical learning that can be taught, modelled and used in real life.
From evidence-informed curricula and staff development to family support and whole-community approaches, our work recognises that young people do not develop in isolation. What happens around a young person shapes what becomes possible within them.
Everything we create is practical, grounded in evidence and designed to build something that lasts — psychologically fit people and communities, better prepared to meet life.