Code of conduct

Why this exists

A live class of 8 to 17 year olds only works if everybody knows the rules before the first Monday. Read this with your child before Monday, August 10, 2026. It takes 5 minutes and it saves the awkward conversation in week 2.

For students

Being in class

• Join on time, with your mic muted until you speak.
• Camera on if you can — it is easier to teach a face than a grey box. Camera off is completely fine if you need it off. Tell the instructor and that is the end of the conversation.
• Join with the first name on your roster. Do not rename yourself to something else halfway through a session.
• Work somewhere reasonably quiet, and use headphones if there are other people in the room.
• Your background, your chat messages and your shared screen are all part of the classroom. Keep them the way you would keep a school desk.
• Ask questions. A question in week 1 is worth 3 in week 4.

How you treat people

• Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Disagree with the idea, never with the person.
• No name-calling, and no comments about anybody’s body, accent, religion, family, money or ability.
• No harassment of any kind — in the session, in chat, or anywhere else because of something that happened in a session.
• Do not screenshot or record another student and post it. Their face and their work belong to them.
• If somebody is being treated badly, tell the instructor. That is not telling tales; that is the whole point of having an adult in the room.

Your link and your accounts

• The joining link is for you. Do not send it to a friend, post it in a group chat, or let somebody else use it.
• Never share a password with anybody in class, including an instructor. Nobody here needs it, ever.
• Do not log into an account that is not yours.
• Nobody from this camp will ask you for your surname, your address, your school, your phone number or a photo of you. If somebody does, tell your parent and tell us the same day.

Using AI honestly

• Say where AI helped. Every project you hand in carries one line: what you asked the tool to do, and what you did yourself. That line is part of the work, not an admission of guilt.
• Copying is copying.Passing off somebody else’s work as yours is plagiarism, whether that somebody is a classmate, a website or a chatbot.
• Do not hand in a whole project you did not build. The point of the 4 weeks is what you can do by the last Friday, not what a tool can do in a minute.
• No AI about real people. No fake voices, no face swaps, no generated images of a classmate, an instructor or anybody you know.
• Do not put personal details in a prompt.Not yours, not anyone else’s.
• Do not try to get around a filter or a safe-mode setting.If you find a way around one, tell us — that is genuinely useful, and we will say so.
• Check what a tool tells you. It will be confidently wrong at least once in these 4 weeks. Being the student who caught it is a better story than being the one who published it.

For parents

• Enrol with accurate details.The age you give sets the learning group and the level of the work. An 11 year old in the 14–17 group has a miserable 4 weeks.
• Keep the joining link inside your household. It is not a spare place for a cousin.
• Recordings are for your family. Do not re-upload them, pass them to another family, or post a clip.
• Talk to us, not through your child. Questions go to the email address or the WhatsApp number on the contact page, not to an instructor mid-session.
• Raise a problem early, in writing. A note in week 1 gets fixed. A complaint in week 4 becomes a refund conversation instead of a solution.
• Keep it civil. We hold instructors to a standard of courtesy and we ask the same in return. Abuse of a member of staff ends the conversation, and can end an enrolment.
• Sit in whenever you want. You are welcome in any session your child is in, and in any one-on-one mentoring session, with no notice.
• Permission is in writing and revocable.We show your child’s work outside the Expo only after you say yes in writing, and we take it down when you change your mind.
• Back up the AI rules at home. If a project arrives finished in 5 minutes, ask them which part they built.

For instructors

• Checks before class. Identity, background check, 2 references, signed policies, safeguarding briefing. No check, no session.
• Run the session by the book. Waiting room on, named accounts only, recording from the first minute, chat monitored, screen share handed over deliberately, session ended when you leave.
• Never one-to-one off the record. Mentoring happens on the program account, scheduled, recorded, and open to a parent or a staff member at any moment.
• No personal channels. No personal phone number, no personal social media, no direct message to a student, ever.
• Never ask a student for a surname, an address, a school name, a photograph or a password.
• Be on time and be ready. Materials open before the session starts, not during it.
• Feedback lands on the work, not the student. Say what is strong, say what to change, say how. A student is never the subject of a joke.
• Read the accessibility notes before week 1 and adapt for the student in front of you.
• Model the AI rules you teach.Declare AI use in your own materials, credit your sources, and never paste a student’s personal data into a tool.
• Report the same day.A welfare concern, a safeguarding worry, or a mistake you made yourself — same day, in writing, to the safeguarding lead.

The consequences ladder

For students, in order:

• 1. A quiet word. In the session, or a private message from the instructor. Almost everything stops here.
• 2. A note to the parent the same day, saying what happened and what needs to change.
• 3. A call with the parent, the instructor and a program lead, and a written expectation for the rest of the program.
• 4. Removal from one session. The recording is still provided, and the student is back the next session.
• 5. Removal from the program, with no refund for sessions already delivered.

Steps 1 to 3 cover the ordinary things: talking over people, a rude message, a shared link. We go straight to step 4 or step 5 for harassment or bullying of any kind, sharing another person’s image or personal data, deliberately seeking content that has no place in a classroom, or anything that puts another student at risk.

For parents. Abuse of staff, sharing paid material, or a repeated breach of the link rules gets a written warning, then withdrawal of the enrolment under the refund terms in the Terms of Service.

For instructors. A breach is investigated in writing. An instructor is stood down from teaching while a safeguarding report about them is open. A confirmed breach of the safeguarding rules ends the engagement, and we report it where we are required to.

How to report a breach

Email [email protected]. Put “conduct” in the subject line, or “safeguarding” if a child’s safety is involved. Tell us what happened, when, and who was there.

• Conduct reports: acknowledged within 24 hours, answered within 3 working days.
• Safeguarding reports: acknowledged within 24 hours and handled under the Child Safety Policy, which stops the activity first and investigates second.
• Students can report directly. The same address, or any instructor, or a parent.
• Nobody is punished for a report made in good faith, including a report that turns out to be about nothing.