RPCC The Next Generation Booklet - Year 7 - 25 - 26

Mobile Phones

As a school we are a mobile free zone . We do this through the use of mobile phone wallets within school which are issued to all pupils free of charge. These are secure wallets in which students store their phones, meaning they would be unable to access phones during the school day. The Government has acknowledged the serious impact of phones on education and young people's mental wellbeing and have stated that phones will be banned in ALL schools. There are numerous benefits to not using mobile phones which include some of the below:

• Improved focus on lessons without distractions • Reducing the opportunity for online bullying • Stopping pupils using them to meet up out of lessons • Improved mental health • Improved communication and social skills Improved safeguarding

We have found since implementing the system within school that pupils have embraced the opportunity to go mobile free and are more focused within lessons and are not distracted.

Electronic devices such as tablets, cameras, headphones and wireless earbuds are not permitted on the school site. The equipment will be confiscated until your parents make arrangements for an adult to collect it from the school during office hours (8.00am – 4.00pm).

All items are brought onto the Regents Park Community College site at the owner's risk.

It is the student's responsibility to keep safe any items of value, including money and phones.