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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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What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

Safeguarding: BeReal

Online safety newsletters

My Family's Digital Toolkit

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

Safeguarding: Instagram

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

Youtube - Supervised Experience

The ABC online safety checklist

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Newsletters 2023-2024

Friends of Hartismere School

Parents

Sport and PE

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Absence Request Form

Parents Evening :: Year 8

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Wellbeing

Child to parent abuse

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

NHS 111 mental health support

Safeguarding

E-Safety

Domestic Violence

Advice about improving your sleep

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Out of hours information

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Expressionism

Sixth Form Course Information

Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

Computer Science

Film post-production explained

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

Joint letter from Ofqual and UCAS to students, summer 2025

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Safeguarding Mental Health Social Media Guide Pan's Labyrinth Parent GCE Results Parent Information Instagram Internet Safety Wellbeing Correspondence Learning at Home Online Support School Nurse School Day Internet Safety

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