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Should schools just say no to pupils using phones?
14th July 2024
Natalie Grice – BBC News
“I wouldn’t say it’s a good thing for a child never to have a smartphone. I think it’s part of a balanced life. You’ve got to live in your own time.”
These are not the words you might expect to hear from a teacher at a school that has never in its history allowed pupils under sixth form age to use a mobile phone on the premises.
But Sarah Owen, deputy head at Stanwell School in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, was simply expressing a personal opinion, rather than the school’s view about a young person’s wider life.
It is clear that she and the school have very firm opinions on what is best for children while they are on school grounds.
For Stanwell pupils in years 7 to 11, that has always meant no phones. Not in lessons, not in the corridor, not at breaktimes.
It is such a long-established rule that it presumably comes as no surprise to pupils and parents when they join the school, which is starting to seem as if it may have been ahead of a growing curve.
In the past few years, a number of schools across Wales and further afield have introduced total bans on mobiles. While Stanwell only asks pupils to keep phones switched off in their bags, others require the devices to be handed in at the start of the day.
Llanidloes High School in Powys is one which has implemented this policy in the past few years and Ysgol Penrhyn Dewi in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, followed suit at the start of this year.
Sarah Owen has been at Stanwell School since 2000 and says that there has always been a no phone policy in the school. For Sarah, it is a question not of trying to impinge on their students’ freedom, but of giving them vital time away from mobile life, for welfare as well as educational reasons.
“We genuinely believe this is in their best interests,” she said. “Phone addiction and screen addiction and scrolling, the loss of concentration, the loss of soft skills around listening and interacting with others, that’s something we need to be concerned about as a society generally.”
“We want children to be interacting with each other, having conversations, playing football, having those connections and interactions with other people.”
Sarah also believes it gives pupils relief from the possibility of being “photographed, filmed, mocked in some way – that’s not a nice way for children to live”. She said she wanted her pupils to have “some sanctuary from the anxiety of feeling so scrutinised and looked at”.
Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles
The indefinite article has been correctly used in “In the past few years, a number of schools across Wales and further afield have introduced total bans on mobiles”.
Choose the sentence in which the indefinite article has also been correctly used:
I. The definite article "the" is used with both countable and uncountable nouns whenever the noun is specific in context.
II. Prepositions such as "in," "on," and "at" follow strict and unchanging rules for use with expressions of time and place.
III. Connectors like "however" and "nevertheless" introduce contrasting ideas but differ in their degree of formality and intensity.
IV. Adverbs in English often end in "-ly" and can modify verbs, adjectives, or even other adverbs, depending on the context.
Select the alternative that uses the article incorrectly.
( ) So much can happen in an month.
( ) I visited the my cousins last week.
( ) My apartment is an hour away from Ryan’s bakery.
( ) In ‘Yellow’, Chris Martin sings, “Look at the stars, look how they shine for you”.
In the order presented, the correct sequence is:
Fill in the blanks with the correct article (a, an, or the).
"After ___ long day at work, I decided to read ___ interesting book I found at ___ bookstore."
I.The use of articles in the text helps to clarify the distinctions between specific entities, such as "the non-English mother-tongue world" and "a stable image of English".
II.The noun "power" is used in the text as a countable noun, indicating multiple types of power in different contexts.
III.The noun "language" is treated as both countable and uncountable, depending on the context in which it is used.
Choose the correct alternative based on the statements:
List 1: You can’t borrow the my book. List 2: Do you think it’s going to rain? List 3: My uncle is an ambulance driver. List 4: I fortunately work in a united group.
The lists in which the use of articles is correct are:
1. Kate has been talking to a customer who has just come into the shop.
2. She went to the zoo, but she didn’t see the monkeys there. She hates the monkeys.
3. People don’t write X letters nowadays. They write X emails. But I haven’t written an email for ages.
4. Jerry works in an university in the center of X London.
Select the option that presents the correct sentences.
Considering the lexical-grammatical aspects of the English language, evaluate the following item.
It is correct to use "a" before words that start with a vowel sound, as in "a apple."
I. Julia eats a aple every morning.
II. Paula’s uncle is a teacher.
III. I love the my job.
Choose the CORRECT answer.
A. People who owned ______ (a / an) MP3 player ______ (was / were) considered popular back in the day.
B. Henrique no longer works ______ (on / in) Saturdays.
C. I ______ (do / don’t) know this song.
D. We’ve ______ (come /came) across as ______ (a / an) united group.
In the order presented, the gaps are correctly and respectively filled by:
As regards the sentence
“After analyzing the my profile, they told me I was not suitable ___ the management position”
choose the CORRECT answer.
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