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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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Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

Youtube - Supervised Experience

Careers & Apprenticeship Information

The ABC online safety checklist

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Online Safety Help Videos

Safeguarding: Instagram

Online safety newsletters

Safeguarding: X

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

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Parents Evening :: Year 10

Absence Request Form

Find My Kids App

SMS Text School Notifications

Year 9 Options process for 2025

Parents

Newsletters 2023-2024

Forms

Parent's Evenings

Sport and PE

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Out of hours information

Child to parent abuse

County lines

Early Help

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

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

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Domestic Violence

NHS 111 mental health support

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Parents Evening :: Year 8

Teacher of Sociology

School Policies

Learnit Physics Unit 7: Magnets

BACK TO THE FUTURE, the musical. Thursday 5th June 2025. Years 7 to 10.

Subject Lead - Health & Social Care

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

Teacher of Health & Social Care

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