For Australian primary schools
Cyber-safety lessons your IT team will actually sign off on.
Mapped to ACARA Digital Technologies + Digital Literacy and the eSafety Commissioner’s Best Practice Framework. Sydney-hosted. APP-aligned. Five-minute lessons that run themselves and give your teachers their afternoon back.
Built by Clinton McKillop
Founder, Mindset Cyber · 20 years in cyber-security
- ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
- CISM
- ASD IRAP Assessor
No card · pay by PO once you decide · cancel any time
Procurement-ready
Pass your evidence checklist on day one.
No PII collected from students
Student first name (or nickname) and class. That's it. No emails, surnames, dates of birth, addresses, or photos.
Sydney-hosted, AU-residency
All school and student data is Sydney-hosted. Nothing leaves Australia.
APP-aligned, audit-logged
Aligned with the Australian Privacy Principles. Every administrative action is logged. DPIA + DSA available before procurement.
Audit-grade pedigree
Built by an ISO 27001 Lead Auditor + Lead Implementer, ISACA CISM, ASD IRAP Assessor. The standards your IT team asks about are the standards we work to.
Every episode mapped to ACARA + eSafety
Episodes for Grade 1–3, Grade 4–5, and Grade 6 — each one names a real, current Australian threat at the right age. New episodes added every term.
Ep 01
Grade 1–3Tilly's Secret Key
ResponsibilityAC9TDI2P01Ep 02
Grade 1–3Real or Pretend?
Critical thinking + EmpathyAC9HP2P02Ep 03
Grade 1–3Tilly Walks Away
ResilienceAC9HP2P03Ep 04
Grade 4–5Group-Chat Drift
Empathy + ResponsibilityAC9TDI4P05Ep 05
Grade 4–5Robux, Logins & The Schoolyard
ResponsibilityAC9TDI4P02Ep 06
Grade 4–5Is This Friend Really A Friend?
Critical thinkingAC9TDI4K03Ep 07
Grade 6Photos Don't Disappear
Resilience + ResponsibilityAC9TDI6P05Ep 08
Grade 6One Password, Many Doors
ResponsibilityAC9TDI6P02Ep 09
Grade 6The Scams Aimed At You Now
Critical thinking + EmpathyAC9TDI6K01
eSafety pillars covered
Respect
Treating others online the way you'd treat them face-to-face.
Empathy
Reading the room — and the screen — for how someone's feeling.
Responsibility
Owning your accounts, your password, your name.
Resilience
Bouncing back when something online goes wrong.
Critical thinking
Pausing, noticing, asking "is this real?"
Literacy
Knowing how digital messages, ads and games actually work.
What it means for your team.
Skim the column for your hat — principal, IT lead, or classroom teacher.
Principals
- ACARA + eSafety mapped
- Year-end rollover in two clicks
- Audit log + role separation
- Curriculum-mandated content with audit-ready reporting
- Multi-campus + DET-friendly procurement
- Australian Privacy Principles aligned
- Per-active-student pricing — no shelf-ware
- 30-day pilot, no card up front, pay by PO once you decide
Walk into your DET review with the file already done.
IT & Digital Tech leads
- Sydney-hosted, AU-only
- Picture-password login
- Audit log + role separation
- Sydney-hosted; data never leaves Australia
- SSO on roadmap (Microsoft + Google)
- Picture-password login removes credential headaches
- DPIA + DSA available before procurement
- No PII collected from students — first name + class only
One less SaaS vendor to write a risk paragraph for.
Classroom teachers
- Per-class dashboards
- Casual relief access
- Discussion prompts + carer notes
- Five-minute lesson runs itself — no prep
- No marking, no take-home worksheets
- Casual relief teachers get a same-day class code
- Discussion prompts + carer notes for every episode
- CSV export of class progress + scores
Get your Friday afternoon back.
Compared with what you’ve already looked at
How Kookabytes compares to the AU primary-school cyber-safety programs you’ve probably seen.
Three of the most common AU primary-school programs do good work — performances, lesson plans, in-school PD. None of them is an interactive app the kids actually open every week. Here’s the honest comparison.
Kookabytes
- • Interactive app the kids actually open
- • ACARA + eSafety BPF, per-episode mapping
- • Per-class dashboards + casual-relief access
- • Per-student pricing announced at launch (single, multi-school, district)
- • Built by an ASD IRAP Assessor + ISO 27001 LA
- • Sydney-hosted, AU data residency
- • Trusted eSafety Provider: applying (2026)
bCyberwise (Life Ed)
In-school PD + module sessions. ACARA-aligned. Trusted eSafety Provider. Quote on request — no published per-student price.
Cyber Safety Project
Lesson-plan subscription (PDFs + activities). F-8 curriculum. Quote on request.
Brainstorm Productions
Live performance + workshop. ACARA-linked. Trusted eSafety Provider. Quote on request.
Comparison reflects publicly available information from each program’s website on 5 May 2026. Use Kookabytes alongside, not instead of, an in-school session — they teach in different ways. We’re happy to be wrong about any cell here — flag it via /contactand we’ll correct it.
How a rollout actually goes
- 01
Pilot a class — free for 30 days
Drop a class code into a single classroom. The five-minute lesson runs itself. Teacher gets a CSV of who completed what.
- 02
Whole-school onboarding (1 hour)
We import your class list. Picture-password logins generated automatically. CRT codes ready for week one.
- 03
Term-by-term, mapped to your scope + sequence
Three primary stages — Junior, Middle and Upper — with new episodes added every term. Teachers see what's due, parents get a weekly take-home.
- 04
Year-end review you can take to the board
One CSV with completion rates, ACARA outcomes covered, and incident-prompt rates. Pre-formatted for school council reporting. Three clicks, ten minutes.
School pricing
Per-student pricing — coming soon.
Three planned tiers — single-school, multi-school group, and district / DET — built around a flat per-active-student rate. Final numbers land at launch. Waitlist members get the procurement pack first.
Single school
Coming soon
per active student / year
Pricing announced at launch
- One campus, paid by card or PO
- Per-class teacher dashboards + CSV export
- Casual relief access included
- DPIA + DSA on request
- 30-day pilot, no card up front
Multi-school group
TBA
per active student / year
Volume from 2+ campuses
- Volume pricing — sliding scale (rate decreases with more campuses)
- Consolidated invoicing across campuses
- Group-level admin dashboard
- Dioceses + Catholic + Independent groups
- One DPIA + one DSA covers the group
District / DET
Talk to us
state + territory deals
10,000+ students
- Negotiated district rate (announced at launch)
- State-DET-grade procurement (DPIA, DSA, IR plan, security pack)
- SSO via Microsoft Entra / Google Workspace (on roadmap, can scope)
- Dedicated AU-based account manager
- Tendered procurement supported (formal RFP responses)
Payment
- · Pay by school credit card
- · Pay by PO + 30-day NET invoice
- · GST 10% applied (Australian-registered)
- · ABN supplier registration available
Procurement
- · DPIA + DSA template emailed in 24h
- · Cyber-security incident response plan
- · Vendor risk-assessment pack on request
- · Sydney-hosted, AU-only data residency
Support
- · 1 business-day email SLA
- · Term-start onboarding (1-hour video)
- · CRT same-day class-code access
- · Year-end review CSV pre-formatted
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