Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

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

In this section...

The ABC online safety checklist

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

Online Safety Help Videos

Youtube - Supervised Experience

Safeguarding: X

Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

Safeguarding: Social Media & Mental Health

Explore...

Newsletters 2023-2024

Find My Kids App

24/7 Text support for Mental Health

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

Visual Storytelling

Subverting Genre in Film

Code.Org - Express computer science course

Diegetic Sound in Film

How Spike Lee directs a Film

Protagonists in Film

New...

Teacher of English

Head of Department - History

March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

Teacher of Mathematics

Teacher of History

Summer 2026 Examinations

Cover Supervisor

Parents Evening :: Year 13

Discover...

Hartismere College Online Safety Games Spending Online Safety Celebrity Programming Revision Mental Homework Community Evening Esafety Chat Bot Mocks Spike Lee Film Studies Health Cinema Uniform

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...