Phones Away for the Day...
https://www.education.govt.nz/school/digital-technology/cellphones/
The regulations require that schools must ensure students do not use or access a phone while they are attending school, including during lunch time and breaks. This includes students who are on a school course or visit outside the school grounds.
- a phone is needed to help a student with a disability or learning support need (for example, to assist with impaired communication); or
- a teacher requires students to use phones for a specific educational task or purpose (for example, for a class assignment); or
- the principal decides that they are needed for special circumstances (for example, the student is a teenage parent).
We would appreciate your support with implementing our school policy on ‘Cellphones’ by not allowing your child to bring a mobile phone (or any other mobile device) without the permission of the School Principal and only for the use set out above.
If your child needs to bring a mobile phone to school then you will need to ensure that you have advised the school, in writing, of the reason for this and that the device is handed in at the school office as soon as your child arrives at school and is collected at the end of the school day. Please utilise the form below to ask any questions, seek any further information, or advise us of the need for your child to bring a mobile phone to school.
The regulations require that schools must ensure students do not use or access a phone while they are attending school, including during lunch time and breaks. This includes students who are on a school course or visit outside the school grounds.
- This must be in effect no later than the start of Term 2, 29 April 2024.
- Schools must allow students to use or access a phone when:
- a phone is needed to help a student with a disability or learning support need (for example, to assist with impaired communication); or
- a teacher requires students to use phones for a specific educational task or purpose (for example, for a class assignment); or
- the principal decides that they are needed for special circumstances (for example, the student is a teenage parent).
We would appreciate your support with implementing our school policy on ‘Cellphones’ by not allowing your child to bring a mobile phone (or any other mobile device) without the permission of the School Principal and only for the use set out above.
If your child needs to bring a mobile phone to school then you will need to ensure that you have advised the school, in writing, of the reason for this and that the device is handed in at the school office as soon as your child arrives at school and is collected at the end of the school day. Please utilise the form below to ask any questions, seek any further information, or advise us of the need for your child to bring a mobile phone to school.
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