More Information about Student Management

1. What is CTSS’s handphone policy? Are students required to keep their handphones away for the entire day? Or can students use their handphones during recess or CCA?

CTSS allows the students to bring their handphones. Permitted use and consequences upon breaching the rules are described below.

The school allows the students to bring their phones to school because increasingly the teachers are using Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools in teaching and learning. The handphone is regarded as a resource that both teachers and students can use to participate in online learning activities. When the teachers need the students to use the phones, the teachers will give them the permission and then they will take out their phones and do the necessary work for learning. CTSS also always has iPads on standby as an alternative digital device for students’ use. Aside from learning purposes as guided by teachers, students are informed that handphones must be placed in their bags and their bags should be placed on the floor.

In addition, students are allowed to use their phones before and after formal curriculum hours, and during their recess. For recalcitrant students who do not abide by handphone rules, CTSS will engage their parents and for some of the students, the school will ban them from bringing their phones or their phones will be retained in school for a stipulated period.

As part of MOE’s Personalised Digital Learning Programme, MOE has announced that by end 2021, every Sec 1 to 3 student will own a personal digital learning device for learning purposes. The school is thus reviewing the handphone use policy so that we can safeguard students’ wellbeing and inculcate a sense of responsibility when using their digital devices. More information will be shared with the parents in 2021.