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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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Four months on: is Roblox any safer?

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Youtube - Supervised Experience

Managing In-Game Spending

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

Safeguarding: X

Safeguarding: Instagram

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

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Parents Evening :: Year 13

Parents Evening :: Year 11

Sport and PE

Parents Evening :: Year 7

Application for Remission from Charges/School Uniform Support

Newsletters 2023-2024

Friends of Hartismere School

Parents

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

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Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Domestic Violence

Early Help

Advice about improving your sleep

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

NHS 111 mental health support

Cyberbullying Advice

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

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

Child to parent abuse

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Students

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

Parents Evening :: Year 10

December Mock Examinations

E-Safety

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48 Hour Scares

January 2026 Examinations

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