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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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Safeguarding: BeReal

Fake Celebrity Chatbots - Harmful Content

Four months on: is Roblox any safer?

Youtube - Supervised Experience

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

The ABC online safety checklist

Online Safety Help Videos

Safeguarding: X

Safeguarding: Instagram

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

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Sport and PE

Parents Evening :: Year 12

Newsletters 2023-2024

Parents

Help & Support

Parents Evening :: Year 13

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Application for Remission from Charges/School Uniform Support

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

School Uniform

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

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Bullying and child on child abuse

NHS 111 mental health support

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Out of hours information

Advice about improving your sleep

Safeguarding

County lines

Do you want to tell us anything?

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E-Safety

Parents Evening :: Year 10

48 Hour Scares

Students

January 2026 Examinations

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

December Mock Examinations

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

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