Primary and secondary school policy examples
Schools are moving beyond ‘no see, no hear’, ensuring smartphones are not just out of sight, but off site completely.
Here you'll find links to real policies from primary, secondary, and cluster groups, to help your school develop or refine its own approach.
Primary schools
BHSA Junior School: a digital charter supports the school’s smartphone policy, establishing a collective partnership between the school, parents/carers, and pupils.
Coldfall Primary School: policy specifically dedicated to pupils’ personal electronic devices, including a devices agreement form for students and parents.
Cunningham Hill School: integrates the school’s ‘no smartphone on site’ approach into their online safety and acceptable use policy.
Weeke Primary School: Online safety and smartphone policy reinforced by the school’s ‘Purposeful Technology Digital Pledge’.
Secondary schools
Archer Academy: This acceptable user policy outlines the school’s approach to ‘no smartphones on site’, with a parental letter and consent form included.
Fulham Boys School: The school’s brick phone only approach is integrated into their ‘ICT and Portable Devices’ policy, with details of the basic phone models permitted.
Kingsbridge Community College: Smartphone free policy, permitting brick phones only, includes rationale for the approach underpinned by academic research and evidence.
Hounsdown School: a smart devices policy detailing a phased approach to policy change, transitioning from phones in lockers to brick only devices for incoming Y7 cohorts.
Poole High School: A no-smartphones-on-site policy that sets out clear expectations on permitted non-smartphone devices, confiscation and consequences, and any exceptions.
Looking for templates to communicate your policy change to parents? Browse real examples of school letters from our Schools Network community:
