{"id":15881,"date":"2024-09-13T18:37:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T16:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/academy-chain-with-35000-pupils-to-be-first-in-england-to-go-phone-free\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T18:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T16:37:54","slug":"academy-chain-with-35000-pupils-to-be-first-in-england-to-go-phone-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/academy-chain-with-35000-pupils-to-be-first-in-england-to-go-phone-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy chain with 35,000 pupils to be first in England to go phone-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Ormiston academies trust says impact of phones on learning and mental health has been \u2018catastrophic\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2024\/sep\/13\/how-being-phone-free-taught-pupils-at-an-english-secondary-to-love-playing\">How going phone-free taught pupils \u2018to socialise, old school\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A national academy chain is to become the first in England to be phone-free, removing access to smartphones from its 35,000 pupils during the school day due to their \u201ccatastrophic\u201d impact on children\u2019s mental health and learning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ormistonacademiestrust.co.uk\/\">Ormiston academies trust<\/a>, which runs 44 state schools including 32 secondaries, has begun phasing out access to phones at all its schools across the country, with eight secondary schools adopting new policies this term and the rest to follow, after liaising with parents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2024\/sep\/13\/academy-chain-with-35000-pupils-to-be-first-in-england-to-go-phone-free\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/57a1777d9435f59a069f3d96be1d9717bfb243d6\/0_506_8192_4918\/master\/8192.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e1934633cbd0bb5e92552f34f476c1d8\" title=\"Academy chain with 35,000 pupils to be first in England to go phone-free\" \/>Exclusive: Ormiston academies trust says impact of phones on learning and mental health has been \u2018catastrophic\u2019<br \/>\nHow going phone-free taught pupils \u2018to socialise, old school\u2019<br \/>\nA national academy chain is to become the first in England to be phone-free, removing access to smartphones from its 35,000 pupils during the school day due to their \u201ccatastrophic\u201d impact on children\u2019s mental health and learning.<br \/>\nThe Ormiston academies trust, which runs 44 state schools including 32 secondaries, has begun phasing out access to phones at all its schools across the country, with eight secondary schools adopting new policies this term and the rest to follow, after liaising with parents. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Ormiston academies trust says impact of phones on learning and mental health has been \u2018catastrophic\u2019 How going phone-free taught pupils \u2018to socialise, old school\u2019 A national academy chain is to become the first in England to be phone-free, removing access to smartphones from its 35,000 pupils during the school day due to their \u201ccatastrophic\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/academy-chain-with-35000-pupils-to-be-first-in-england-to-go-phone-free\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academy chain with 35,000 pupils to be first in England to go phone-free<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}