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Phones banned from schools from 1st April - what is your school doing?

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Kepler22B · 14/03/2026 07:46

My school (teacher) is fully implementing the new government policy https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mobile-phones-in-schools/mobile-phones-in-schools

Phones handed in at the start of the school day and not collected until they go home. It is a boarding school so they can get their phones for a short while in the evening. No change for us here, we already did this.

What is changing for us is no phones on trips or matches or Saturdays. Plus the rules now apply to 6th form (but there is some leeway that my school isn’t taking)

Is your school fully banning phones? How are they implementing this? Are you happy with the rules?

Mobile phones in schools

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mobile-phones-in-schools/mobile-phones-in-schools

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TheChosenTwo · 14/03/2026 07:49

Our senior school did this years ago. They are to be left switched off in bags and not seen on the premises. If a child is seen with a phone they are confiscated until Friday afternoon.
Seems fine to me (medical exemptions apply!) - dc now take card games etc in to play with others at break/lunch rather than sitting with their noses buried in phones. Seems sensible.