Dear All,

I promise I shan't be bombarding you with emails, but just a note to say thank you so much for being our first signatories! In the last 7 days since the petition was launched, 393 people have signed and it has been shared 62 times! Any teachers I speak to about this issue are silently exhausted by the mobile phone management and sanctioning that has become part of their day, never mind the told and untold mental health damage these devices are doing to our children's brains.

I would be so grateful to you if you could keep momentum on this petition and encourage people to sign and share where you can. I am not anti-phones completely, just anti-phones at school. I just wanted to mention that fact. I, like many others are very aware that these devices are sadly here to stay in some capacity (and can be fruitful in moderation), but children must be helped to manage them much, much better than they are being now.

If you have 15 minutes please watch the video below where the brilliant Simon Sinek talks about these devices being complicit in the mental flatness of young people in the workplace.

With kindest regards

Please keep safe and well from coronavirus.

Dr Becky Foljambe, GP.