A Border principal says a new mobile phone policy has improved the school's environment in and out of the classroom.
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Albury High School students now put their phones in pouches they can't open during school hours and then attend a station when leaving the grounds to unlock them.
Principal Darryl Ward said the system had worked well in its first weeks. The introduction was delayed when Victoria's lockdown last month affected staff numbers.
"I've been going around and talking to kids, a lot of students aren't even bothering to bring their phones to school now," he said.
"The senior kids, they're saying that it's a really positive change from their perspective.
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It's just made the playground a noisier place in a most positive way because they're out there talking and playing games
- Albury High School principal Darryl Ward
"It's just made the playground a noisier place in a most positive way because they're out there talking and playing games and, yeah, it's going really well, there's a nice feel about it."
"It gives them that safe time from 9am to 3.30pm where they don't have to have that barrage of negative comments that some kids experience through mobile phones," Mr Ward said.
"The learning environment in classrooms, talking to my teachers, they've said that it's much more positive because there's less disruption."
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