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Safeguarding: Social Media & Mental Health

Social Media is often scrutinised as having a negative impact on children’s mental health. Children and young people are now growing up in a technology dominated world, and social media plays a major role in their social lives. This balanced guide focuses at both the positive and negative impacts that social media can bring to young people and their mental health.

https://nationalonlinesafety.com/hub/view/guide/social-media-mental-health-the-positive-and-negative-impacts 

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Careers & Apprenticeship Information

My Family's Digital Toolkit

Safeguarding: Instagram

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Safeguarding: X

Managing In-Game Spending

The ABC online safety checklist

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

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

Safeguarding: BeReal

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Friends of Hartismere School

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Parents Evening :: Year 8

Forms

Parents Evening :: Year 9

Parents Evening :: Year 7

Year 7 tutors/parents evening

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

School Uniform

Parents Evening :: Year 12

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Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Out of hours information

Early Help

TwitBook - Can you spot the problems with this profile page?

Cyberbullying Advice

Safeguarding

Do you want to tell us anything?

Wellbeing

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

County lines

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E-Safety

January 2026 Examinations

48 Hour Scares

Students

Teacher of English - (Maternity cover - Possible TLR available)

Parents Evening :: Year 10

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

December Mock Examinations

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