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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

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

Careers & Apprenticeship Information

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

Fake Celebrity Chatbots - Harmful Content

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

My Family's Digital Toolkit

Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

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School Transport Information

Hartismail - emails and letters home

@Home

Sport and PE

Term dates

Parent's Evenings

Application for Remission from Charges/School Uniform Support

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

Friends of Hartismere School

SMS Text School Notifications

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Advice about improving your sleep

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

County lines

Wellbeing

Early Help

Bullying and child on child abuse

Out of hours information

NHS 111 mental health support

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

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Summer 2026 Examinations

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

Waveney Valley Transport

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

art & science exhibition of year 8 work

E-Safety

Hartismere Technical Theatre

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