{"id":241041,"date":"2025-11-03T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241041\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:05:09","slug":"pupils-share-their-views-on-smartphone-use-in-northants-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241041\/","title":{"rendered":"Pupils share their views on smartphone use in Northants schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deniz, 17, was in the first year of secondary school when she got a smartphone after she began walking to school by herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is now in her final year of sixth form at The Duston School, Northampton, and said she used her phone mostly for social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deniz estimated she spent about four hours a day on her phone during the week &#8211; but the figure goes up at weekends and during half-term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Students at The Duston School are allowed a limited access to their phones. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she has mixed feelings about the policy as &#8220;it definitely has its benefits and drawbacks&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The benefits are you can access work that&#8217;s been set if the computers are all full, but the drawbacks are you can get carried away and just start scrolling,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deniz, 17, was in the first year of secondary school when she got a smartphone after she began&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-241041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}