Mobile Phone Policy Notice

MOBILE PHONE POLICY NOTICE Date: Effective: Dear Parents and Guardians, ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ POLICY SUMMARY From {{effective_date}}, the following rules apply to mobile phones at {{school_name}}: • Students must hand in their phone at reception every morning • Phones will be stored securely in the school office • Phones will be returned at {{collection_time}} each day • No phones are permitted in classrooms, corridors, or the dining hall • Smartwatches must follow the same rules • Earbuds/headphones are not permitted during school hours ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXCEPTIONS Exceptions may be granted in the following circumstances: • Medical need: With written request from parent and medical professional • Specific learning need: With Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) • Emergency contact: Parents should call the school office directly All exception requests must be submitted in writing to the school office. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONSEQUENCES FOR NON-COMPLIANCE If a student does not comply with this policy: First occurrence: • Phone will be confiscated and stored for collection by parent • Student will receive a verbal warning Second occurrence: • Phone confiscated for one week • Parent will be contacted • Student will receive a written warning Third occurrence: • Phone confiscated for one month • Parent meeting required • Incident recorded on behaviour log ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RATIONALE Research consistently shows that mobile phones in schools negatively impact student attention, learning, and social interaction. This policy aims to create a focused learning environment free from digital distractions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you have any questions about this policy, please contact the school office. Yours sincerely, Principal