Ratcliffe-College-Key-Stage-3-Handbook-2016-2017

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Electrical Safety All electrical appliances in the school have to be annually tested for electrical safety. If you bring your own appliances such as ‘laptop’ computers into school and use the mains electricity supply, in order to fulfil our safety regulations all appliances must either carry a PAT certificate or the appliances must have a circuit breaker placed between them and the mains power outlet. Circuit breakers can be obtained from any DIY outlet or electrical supplier. If you use an electrical item that does not conform to the required safety standards then it may be confiscated by a member of staff. Mobile Phones 1. Students in the Nursery School and the Preparatory School may not bring a mobile phone or electronic device into school. 2. Students in Years 7 and 8 may not have a mobile telephone/electronic devices in school. The exception to this rule is that students who travel to school by bus/coach may bring a mobile phone to school which must be left at Reception each morning and collected at the end of the day. Students in Years 7 and 8 who are boarders may have a mobile phone/electronic devices in the boarding areas, which they may use during their own free time in accordance with the boarding community guidelines. Should a parent need to contact their son/daughter in an emergency during the school day, they can contact main school reception and leave a message which will be passed to their son/daughter via the Tutor. Students will also be notified that they have a message via the television screens around school and will be asked to report to reception at break time or lunch time to collect their message. Equally, in the unlikely event that your son/daughter needs to contact home during the day, they can request to use the telephone in the main school office. Students may bring phones/electronic devices into school on Saturdays when involved in school fixtures. 3. For students in Years 9 and10, it is not necessary to have a mobile phone or electronic device in school, and for this reason, we do not recommend that students bring them into school. If, however, students in Years 9 and10 bring mobile phones and electronic devices into school, they must be turned off and kept in lockers during the School day, which includes lesson time and extra-curricular activities. Phones must not be accessed in between lessons under any circumstances. Students in Years 9 and 10 may check their mobile phones at break time and at lunchtime in the locker rooms only. At these times, students may communicate via text with parents for genuinely urgent reasons such as to amend arrangements for collection from school. Students 49
may take their mobile phone/electronic device into supervised prep time and can use them to listen to music only. 4. Year 11 students may bring their mobile phone into school and carry them with them during the day. Mobile phones must be turned off during all lessons, prep times and other school activities. They must be used as a telephone only for genuinely urgent reasons during the day. This would normally be to arrange transport home at the end of the day. Year 11 students are permitted to text parents in their common room. Year 11 students may also access games and music via their mobile phone at breaktime, lunchtime and afterschool when they are in their common room. 5. Sixth Form students may carry their mobile phone with them during the School day, but this should be set to ‘airplane mode’ only. Mobile phones must not be used during lessons or when travelling to and from lessons or to and from the Sixth Form Centre. Sixth Form students may use their mobile phones to access music, send texts or access the internet when in the Sixth Form Centre lounge or café at break time, lunchtime or before morning registration or between the end of P6 and the start of Prep Time. This is a Sixth Form privilege and all students must use their phones responsibly and in accordance with the AUP. 6. Under no circumstances should pupils be using their phones around the school unless in a designated area (locker room or SFC). 7. Students who have been identified as having learning needs and require the use of a laptop may use these devices once permission has been granted by the Learning Support Department and teaching staff have been notified. These devices may be carried in a laptop bag around school. Students are not permitted to use these devices at any other time during the day. Students, who have been identified by the Head of Learning Support as having a learning need, may use a camera to assist with the recording of prep (Years 7 and 8) or a mobile phone (Year 9 and above) to assist with their learning with prior agreement. All staff will be informed of this arrangement as such pupils will be able to carry their phones around with them. 8. EAL students who have access to translator devices may use these in lessons if permission has been granted by the EAL Department. EAL students may not use their mobile phones as translators. 9. No student in the Senior School may use their mobile phone or electronic device in the corridor, Common Rooms, Refectory, Chapel, toilets or any thoroughfare before, during or after school. 10. Mobile phones or electronic devices must not be taken into an examination room during Public Examinations as this could result in a disqualification (see Public Examination Guidance for Students and Parents on the <strong>Ratcliffe</strong> <strong>College</strong> website). 11. Boarders may use their mobile phone or electronic device in the boarding house and in the School corridors before School up to 8.15am when their rooms are inspected. Electronic devices or mobile phones must not be taken 50
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