Batley Girls' High School

Mobile Phone Policy (updated August 2011)

Rationale - at Batley Girls’ High School we;

• are committed to providing a caring, friendly and safe environment for all of our students

• believe that modern technology in the form of mobile phones, when used appropriately offers young people and their parents/carers peace of mind, particularly when travelling to and from school

• are also clear that when phones are used inappropriately, they distract from the core school business of learning, and at worst can be used as a tool for bullying

Policy

• Students are allowed to bring mobile phones into school

• Mobile phones must be switched off at all times during the school day, including break and lunchtimes, and remain off, whilst students are on the school premises

• Any student found with their mobile phone switched on within school will have the phone and SIM card confiscated. The confiscated phone will be passed on to the appropriate Pastoral Manager

• The phone will be held until the end of the week in which it is confiscated

• A phone will not be held over a holiday period, unless the student fails to collect it

• Parents will be informed of the offence

• Where a student regularly breaches this rule, the sanction will be revised accordingly and parents/carers will be kept informed of the situation