Phone Policy for RIS Students

The school recognises that a phone is a resource that children, who travel to and from school by themselves, should have so they can communicate with their parents in the event of an emergency during the trip. At the same time, the school does not consider the use of phones during school hours necessary.

For these reasons, at RIS, we have the following expectations regarding students’ cell phones:

• The school assumes that every student in the MYP owns a phone.
• If a student does not own a cell phone, a note must be sent by his/her parents to the Head of School.
• If a student does not bring their cell phone on a given day, a note must be sent by their parents to the Head of School.
• Cellphones are collected by the homeroom teacher when students line up before being invited into their first class of the day. Every student must give in his/her phone. All phones will be stored in a safe box during the school day.
• Should a student come to school after all phones have been collected, they are expected to give theirs to the person in the main office.
• If no one can collect the phone in the office, students will give in their phones to the teacher of that lesson.
• In the event of an emergency that requires children to contact their parents during school hours, they will use the school phone (64 80 91 81).
• At the end of the last lesson of each day, the teacher will return the phones to every student outside the school building.