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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...

Safeguarding: BeReal

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

Four months on: is Roblox any safer?

The ABC online safety checklist

New online safety priorities for Ofcom and effects of social media on children

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Safeguarding: Instagram

Managing In-Game Spending

Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

Safeguarding: X

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Friends of Hartismere School

School Transport Information

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

Newsletters 2023-2024

Absence Request Form

Sport and PE

Parents Evening :: Year 8

Parents Evening :: Year 11

Help & Support

Hartismail - emails and letters home

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Advice about improving your sleep

Safeguarding

Bullying and child on child abuse

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

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

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Out of hours information

Domestic Violence

Cyberbullying Advice

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

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

Hartismere Family Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

E-Safety

Summer 2026 Examinations

Increase in Fees for Instrumental/Vocal lessons from September 2026

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