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Mobile Phones
The College’s approach to mobile phones (and similar technology) is a combination of active educational engagement with issues, as well as putting appropriate controls in place, rather than zero tolerance which can abdicate responsibility to others. Parents are asked to support the College’s protocols and therefore not provide their children with a second phone! Mr Steve Cragg (Director of ICT services) is Online Safety Officer and a member of the pastoral and safeguarding teams. He plays an important role in educating pupils, helping them with problems and making sure that appropriate safeguards are in place. Online safety is an important part of the Life Skills curriculum, where appropriate use of social media and other phenomena, such as identity theft, are taught and discussed.
Access to mobile phones
Foundation Year pupils may only use phones after Homework and before bedtime during
the working week, unless they have special permission e.g. to contact family in a different time-zone. At all other times FY phones are kept in the House duty room. On Saturdays,
FY pupils may collect their phones after lunch until bedtime. On Sundays they may have their phones all day until bedtime. They may collect their phones when departing for an away fixture.
Remove and Hundred/Pre-Sixth pupils may only use phones after the working school day (16:00) and they must hand them in to the duty room at bedtime unless they have special permission e.g. to contact family in a different time zone. They must also hand them in during Homework (19:15 to 20:45). On Saturdays they may collect their phones after lunch until bedtime. On Sundays they may have their phones all day. They may collect their phones when departing for an away fixture.
Lower school pupils must hand any second phones to House staff for safe keeping. There are clear sanctions for Lower School pupils found using an illicit second phone.
The rules for Sixth Form pupils using their phones can be summarized as: Meet, Meal, Move. Phones should not be used during:
» Meeting with others e.g. Chapel, lessons, lectures, and other formal meetings
» Meals
» Moving i.e. walking around campus during
the working school day (08:10 to 16:00)
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