Knowing what you should do is not the same as being able to do it while your heart is going.

Today the room runs a response desk: two of you sit at the front, a situation is read out, and you get sixty seconds, out loud, to say what happens next and in what order. Everyone else scores that response against the same four things. Nobody gets marked as a person; it is the response that gets scored.

Every situation you will hear is invented, so nothing that has happened to anyone in this room goes near the desk.

Harmful situations online look different from each other: a mean message, a photo shared without permission, a stranger asking for details, an account pretending to be you. What they have in common is that there is always a next move, and you do not have to make it alone.

These are the four things the class listens for in every response at the desk:

• Did not engage. No reply, no hitting back, no arguing with the account.
• Evidence before blocking. Screenshots, usernames, times, kept first. Block and the messages can be gone.
• Used the tools. Block stops them reaching you. Report flags it to the app. Two different jobs.
• Told someone who can actually act. A named person or route, not just "an adult".

Pairs take the desk in turn. The teacher reads a card. You get sixty seconds, out loud, to say what happens next and in what order.

At the desk

1. Listen to the card. You may take ten seconds with your partner before the clock starts.
2. Say your response as a sequence: first, then, after that.
3. Finish inside the minute, and do not worry if the clock beats you, because running out of time is part of it.

Everyone else

You are the scorers. For each response, mark the four criteria on the board in your notes: did not engage, evidence before blocking, used the tools, told someone who can act. One tick or one cross each. No names and no score for the pair, because you are scoring the response.

Now score the desk as a whole. Not any one pair, but this class's responses, all of them together.

For each of the four criteria, agree where the room landed: not yet, nearly, or there. Every one that is not at there needs a line saying what was actually missing, in your own words.

Last thing: for the next card that comes in, name who you would tell, a person or a route that can actually do something, not just "an adult".

Look at the four scores and the order you locked.

You cannot control what arrives. You can control what you do in the next sixty seconds, and today you found out what that actually sounds like under a clock.