Blackout for KS3
Blackout - Safeguarding students and eliminating digital disruption
Blackout is an innovative mobile app that helps students maintain a healthier relationship with their phones. It works by blocking access to distracting apps, including social media, games, and web browsers, during school hours. The app allows essential functions, such as calls, SMS, maps, and calendars, to remain accessible, ensuring students can stay connected with their families for necessary communication. Blackout is available to download from the App Store or Google Play.
At Rosebery School, our mobile phone policy is designed to create a calm, focused learning environment and to support student wellbeing. While phones can be useful for communication, they can also cause disruption, increase social stress, and distract from learning if used at the wrong times.
The Blackout app works in partnership with the school’s phone policy to make sure expectations are applied fairly and consistently across all pupils. This removes unnecessary conflict, reduces opportunities for misuse, and helps pupils develop positive digital routines.
Please click HERE to view the phone policy in full, as agreed by school leadership and governors.
By combining Blackout with the school’s policy, we are supporting three key aims:
- Consistency and fairness – every pupil follows the same expectations.
- Focus and wellbeing – pupils are free from digital distractions and pressures during the school day.
- Cultural change – together, we are building a healthier, more balanced approach to smart device use that prepares pupils for life beyond school.
Parent and Carer Information Pack
Supporting healthy phone use at home and Parental Controls
Privacy, Permissions & Data Protection
FAQs & support links for families
