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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 

In this section...

AI and nude images

Fake Celebrity Chatbots - Harmful Content

My Family's Digital Toolkit

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

Online Safety Help Videos

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

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

Safeguarding: X

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

Managing In-Game Spending

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Parents Evening :: Year 7

Parents Evening :: Year 8

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Term dates

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SMS Text School Notifications

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Help & Support

Sport and PE

School Uniform

Explore...

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

Cyberbullying Advice

Out of hours information

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

NHS 111 mental health support

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

County lines

Bullying and child on child abuse

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Wellbeing

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Higher Education Opportunity - LAMDA's (BA Hons) Production & Technical Arts

Summer 2026 Examinations

Parents Evening :: Year 9

March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

We teach LAMDA

Impact Evaluation of LAMDA Exams in Schools

Hartismere Staff Sketchbook Club Exhibition

Young Performers Theatre Workshops - For 12-18's

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