William Ransom Primary School, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, has asked all 25 primaries in the town to join them in requesting that parents do not give their pupils smartphones.
Earlier this year, a group of parents at the school agreed they did not want to give their children smartphones and raised it with head teacher Tony Plunkett, who supported their campaign.
He said: “You don’t want to alienate your child, so you inevitably give them access. Hopefully, what we’re doing is trying to build that community where more children do not have phones than do.”
“It makes it easier for parents to say, ‘Actually your friends are not on that, and therefore we don’t need to give you access to it’,” he explained.
He hopes to have all the town’s primary schools signed up to be smartphone-free this school year.
Mr Plunket said: “The benefit is children being children again. They’re too young to be stuck on a screen; they need those real-life experiences.”
