Like most schools, Weaverham Primary Academy School has a strict mobile phone policy. Mobile phones are banned in school and if any of the 118 pupils bring them in by mistake they hand them into the school office at the start of the day.
“The children know that’s the rule and they don’t have a problem with it,” explained executive headteacher Fiona Whittaker. “They understand that we don’t allow mobile phones in school because they’re a distraction. The school has 30 iPads and the children enjoy using those but obviously we have control over which apps are on the iPads and which are not.”
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