Charity ‘phone- fast’ at Limavady High

With four out of five children owning a phone by the age of 11 and 60 per cent of teenagers claiming to be ‘highly addicted’ to their smart phones, students at Liamavady High School found out if it would be possible to survive without them buzzing in blazer pockets for a couple of days.
By The Newsroom
Published 28th Mar 2013, 14:15 BST
Kirsten Mitchell, Beth Burridge, Matthew Lennox, Hannah Sharpe, Peter McWhirter, Alison Martin, Jodie McKeegan and Heather Ferguson pictured at the hand over of phones for Limavady High School's charity 'phone-fast'Kirsten Mitchell, Beth Burridge, Matthew Lennox, Hannah Sharpe, Peter McWhirter, Alison Martin, Jodie McKeegan and Heather Ferguson pictured at the hand over of phones for Limavady High School's charity 'phone-fast'
Kirsten Mitchell, Beth Burridge, Matthew Lennox, Hannah Sharpe, Peter McWhirter, Alison Martin, Jodie McKeegan and Heather Ferguson pictured at the hand over of phones for Limavady High School's charity 'phone-fast'

Challenged by one of her teachers, Beth Burridge, a Year 13 pupil, bravely persuaded seven others from her year group to give up their beloved Blackberrys and awesome i-phones for the duration of 48 hours.

The phones were lovingly placed in a sealed box at 11am and whisked away to a top-secret location, only to be returned at 11am two days later. In the meantime students agreed not to use their friends’ phones and to avoid social-networking as much as possible!

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Beth, 17, said, “Although it was hard to live without my phone for two whole days, it also helped me get on with things I needed to do without having any distractions.”

As the moment for returning the phones drew near Beth likened it to ‘Christmas’. All of the pupils

were extremely relieved to get their hands back on their phones and hoped for an abundance of text messages to catch up on!

The sponsored event raised £200 pounds for Action Cancer, a charity chosen by the students themselves.

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