How strict are you with your Year 7?

DS has to walk through town to get to school. A couple of times he's called me to ask if he can pop into a games / computer shop to browse for 15 mins with his best mate. I'm fine with that.
He has unlimited texts and calls so it's not a concern.
He's currently taking a packed lunch. But when he's more confident he'll change to hit food. He's practised using the cafe and bought some biscuits and crisps. I put a tenner on at the start of term and it's only gone down to five pounds.
No smart phone or social media.

Tell me parents of year 7, how many of your kids have accounts on social media (snapchat; Instagram; twitter; whatsapp)?

Sorry, just read the thread title, and my thoughts were not at all, for the first time in years I have top set y7 and they are delightful. A raised eyebrow is quite sufficient.

I just started sending snacks for DD this week. At £2.50 for four, a box of Nakd bars is way cheaper than what is on offer at the school canteen. Got her some yoghurt rice cakes too. We have had lots of chats about healthy eating! DD tells me some children in her class are having doughnuts with icing at break every day. I've just told her she has to make her own choices and that isn't healthy. She normally chooses the Nakd bar or similar over a cake but has decided to get herself a treat on Fridays, which seems completely fine to me. She's also been good about choosing fruit and veg with her lunches so am happy to trust her.

Lunch has a daily cap of £5 and I can see what she gets. I don't have the time for lunch boxes and she doesn't have the time to get it from her locker and go back to eat it, they only have 50 minutes lunch break, which includes going from and to classes and re-organising backs if they have stuff in there lockers.

We are happy to fund the lunch but she takes a snack with her, so normally she spends around £3-ish.

Phone, currently she is on a monthly rolling contract, expensive but we can change it at any time and it will depend how much she uses it, still early stages.

She gets pocket money and is expected to pay for the odd drink when she meets with a friend, luckily there is absolutely nothing between school and home so it is just on the weekends.

During the week she hardly goes out as she has 2 after school activities and homework and currently is also quite shattered when she is home. We go by "let's see how it develops" and adjust from there. She normally is in bed around 8.30pm and alarm goes at 6.30am

Only rule, phone lives downstairs.

Dc is only allowed to buy lunch once a week until half term when we will review the spend and ‘junk’ level of the choices. She makes her own packed lunch night before.
Has my old phone on £8/pm contract which we pay for.
Walk to and from school and to evening after school activities. Texts when gets where going. Calls if going to be later than expected.
No electrics after 8pm and In bed reading by 8:30.
This weekend she will be meeting a friend In town and we have given her boundaries on this.
She doesn’t get an allowance but has plenty of birthday money saved up.

She has to be very careful who has her number- only giving it to people she trust with the request they not pass it on without asking her first. She also is to make people aware we can and do have access to her phone anytime we want and will see anything sent to her.

I top up up the lunch card monthly with enough for about 2 or 3 lunches a week depending what they buy, other than this I provide plenty at home so they can take a packed lunch. I have made it clear that I am not funding buying lunch on a daily basis as this is an expensive luxury especially when I take packed lunch with me to work.

Yes, phone downstairs here too. DD needs loads of sleep so is normally fast asleep by 8.30 - she has found starting secondary really tiring, mainly mentally I think.

I can also track her location so I know she's wherever she should be.

DD can also earn extra money with chores but rarely bothers!

My yr 7 walks to and from but we live 10 mins tops away from school. I let her go into town (we live very central) with or without friends but I keep an eye on 'find friends' to check she's where she's supposed to be. She doesn't go out in the evenings or anywhere unless it's prearranged or run past me & then usually we'll drop off & pick up.
Phonewise she has similar to previous poster (giffgaff) and she doesn't have phone or iPad after half 9 at night. We keep downstairs & charge overnight. Sometimes if she's chatting to her friends on FaceTime or watching Netflix at the weekend we will extend that curfew. Usually off by 10.30 in that case.
Lunches we pay for and monitor to make sure she's not buying too many cheesy bagels at break time. We give money for drinks/lunch/entry on outings with friends but she's expected to buy most stuff she wants (slime making crap for example or pound shop junk ) from money she's gifted at birthdays and Christmas. She can earn extra by doing jobs but rarely does.

DD has her lunches paid for and £5 a week for other expenses (snacks, drinks etc) which is on a GoHenry card so I can see what she's spending. I pay her mobile phone bill which is £7.50 a month (250 minutes, 2GB data, unlimited texts). She has occasionally met a friend for lunch somewhere like Yo Sushi or Starbucks at the weekend - I will give her a little extra for this but it's not every week, more like once a month or so.

She is allowed out on her own at the weekend (gets back quite late in the week so not really practical) as long as she's home by 6 - she sometimes goes to the park to meet old friends from primary but that is about it. I think when the evenings get darker I would want her home by the time darkness falls, so about 5pm.