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Managing In-Game Spending

In-game spending can be problematic with some children and young people. The urgency to level up, to look unique, to be better than your friends, and to top all this off the persuasive techniques that games companies use.

Internet Matters have an excellent guide for parents which includes:

You can view the guide HERE.

Credit: Alan Mackenzie. Online Safety Specialist

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My Family's Digital Toolkit

Safeguarding: X

Fake Celebrity Chatbots - Harmful Content

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

New online safety priorities for Ofcom and effects of social media on children

Safeguarding: Social Media & Mental Health

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

How Ofcom is helping children to be safer online – a guide for parents

Four months on: is Roblox any safer?

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Wellbeing

Bullying and child on child abuse

Find My Kids App

Early Help

Domestic Violence

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) and Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)

Child to parent abuse

County lines

Out of hours information

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Newsletters 2023-2024

How Spike Lee directs a Film

24/7 Text support for Mental Health

Visual Storytelling

Code.Org - Express computer science course

Diegetic Sound in Film

Great Villains in Film

I Belong: encouraging girls into computer science programme

Day of physics at Warwick University

Hartismere Art & Photography Exhibition 2023

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June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

art & science exhibition of year 8 work

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Stranger Things, The First Shadow. The Phoenix Theatre, Friday 11th September.

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April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Hartismere Technical Theatre

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