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more serious cases students may be taken to doctors’ consulting rooms or A&E
which students can use with their classroom teacher’s permission. In an emergency, or with a Deputy Headmaster’s permission, there is a
Mobile phones are the student’s responsibility and may not be used during 8.00am –
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We ask that all Boarders be provided with a mobile phone in order to assist us with the phoning arrangements. Contact with home is an important part of the week for Boarders and we have found it has proved far more efficient to have all the Boarders being able to use their own phones, allowing for quality and more private phoning time. We do not have enough landlines at school to allow for decent length and more private calls. Cheap, simple to use mobile phones have proved to work successfully for the Boarders. We would ask, however, that the phones are regularly checked for credit and that the Boarders see that they are returned to school each week fully charged.
Students are not permitted to have mobile phones on their person throughout the day or in the dormitories. The phones will be stored in the office of the Heads of Boarding and used during designated phone times. This will generally be after dinner between approximately 6:00 pm and 7.00 pm on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings
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