{"id":23419,"date":"2026-06-08T07:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/the-london-school-that-has-screen-free-days-for-pupils-teachers-and-parents\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:37:39","slug":"the-london-school-that-has-screen-free-days-for-pupils-teachers-and-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/the-london-school-that-has-screen-free-days-for-pupils-teachers-and-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"The London school that has screen-free days for pupils, teachers \u2013 and parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Family Catholic primary school says enthusiastic response from parents has been biggest surprise<\/p>\n<p>Schools banning pupils from having smartphones are commonplace. But what about a school where pupils ban teachers from using their smartphones, and then get their parents to join in?<\/p>\n<p>And not just phones: at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holyfamilyealing.co.uk\/\">Holy Family Catholic primary school<\/a> in west London teachers are also barred from using laptops, monitors or tablets during the school\u2019s screen-free Mondays, after an idea that came from the pupils themselves.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2026\/jun\/07\/london-school-screen-free-mondays-for-pupils-teachers-and-parents\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5891b8c7c35a51d0ba6540186e1590600b50c05b\/452_0_4516_3613\/master\/4516.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=df302524226fba81fa5b3e994e91b714\" title=\"The London school that has screen-free days for pupils, teachers \u2013 and parents\" \/>Holy Family Catholic primary school says enthusiastic response from parents has been biggest surprise<br \/>\nSchools banning pupils from having smartphones are commonplace. But what about a school where pupils ban teachers from using their smartphones, and then get their parents to join in?<br \/>\nAnd not just phones: at Holy Family Catholic primary school in west London teachers are also barred from using laptops, monitors or tablets during the school\u2019s screen-free Mondays, after an idea that came from the pupils themselves. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Family Catholic primary school says enthusiastic response from parents has been biggest surprise Schools banning pupils from having smartphones are commonplace. But what about a school where pupils ban teachers from using their smartphones, and then get their parents to join in? And not just phones: at Holy Family Catholic primary school in west &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/the-london-school-that-has-screen-free-days-for-pupils-teachers-and-parents\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The London school that has screen-free days for pupils, teachers \u2013 and parents<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23420,"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\/23419"}],"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=23419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}