A SCHOOL has become the first in the UK to force pupils to lock their phones away until the end of the day - and teachers can confiscate the devices.
Wimbledon High School in south-west London has brought in what staff there call a Phone Away Box.
Year 7 and Year 8 pupils at the girls' school have to put their phones in clear boxes on their lockers before morning registration - where they stay until 4pm.
Deputy head Ben Turner told MyLondon: "School life doesn't end at the end of the school day any more, as it did during our childhoods.
"There is loads of evidence of the impact of phones on level of interaction and on mental health.
"Children go home and continue to interact with their school friends into the small hours.
