A fifth of all students at Tarporley High School managed to turn off technology for a whole week as part of a BBC Radio 5 Live digital detox.
A special pledge not to use social media or play computer games as part of an experiment on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Afternoon Edition programme has been thought to be the biggest ever ‘digital detox’ experiment involving young people, amid concerns about how much time schoolchildren spend on social media.
All 1,000 students at the school initially vowed to try to stay off Snapchat, Facebook and their favourite games while the BBC recorded the results and documented their experiences through recorded video diaries.
There were also live broadcasts from the school on the progress being made by students, some of whom wrote articles about the experiment which were then published on the BBC website.
Some students even got the opportunity to appear on BBC Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty.
In the end, 200 students out of the 1,000 managed to successfuly complete a week with giving in to the temptation to switch back on.
Ffion Eaton, assistant headteacher at Tarporley High School, said: “Being invited onto the BBC Breakfast couch was such a fantastic opportunity to share the impressive work of our students. We are incredibly proud of our students for being excellent ambassadors for our school.”
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