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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...

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Online Safety Help Videos

Safeguarding: Instagram

The ABC online safety checklist

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

My Family's Digital Toolkit

Safeguarding: BeReal

Managing In-Game Spending

Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

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Absence Request Form

School Transport Information

Forms

Increase in Fees for Instrumental/Vocal lessons from September 2026

Friends of Hartismere School

Parents Evening :: Year 13

Parents Evening :: Year 8

Newsletters 2023-2024

Parents Evening :: Year 7

Parent's Evenings

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Domestic Violence

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

NHS 111 mental health support

Advice about improving your sleep

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

Child to parent abuse

Out of hours information

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Early Help

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April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

Summer 2026 Examinations

Term dates

Invigilators

Waveney Valley Transport

Design and Technology

Stranger Things, The First Shadow. The Phoenix Theatre, Friday 11th September.

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