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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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Safeguarding: BeReal

Managing In-Game Spending

Youtube - Supervised Experience

Safeguarding: X

The ABC online safety checklist

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

My Family's Digital Toolkit

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

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School Uniform

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Newsletters 2023-2024

Parents Evening :: Year 9

Find My Kids App

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Parents Evening :: Year 10

Parents Evening :: Year 7

Friends of Hartismere School

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Wellbeing

Bullying and child on child abuse

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Safeguarding

Do you want to tell us anything?

Child to parent abuse

Cyberbullying Advice

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

County lines

E-Safety

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School Policies

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Teacher of Art & Photography (Part time)

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Summer 2026 Examinations

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