Mobile phones are to be banned in schools completely under new government rules aimed at improving behaviour in the classroom. Headteachers will be able to eliminate phones from the school day entirely – including at all breaks and lunchtimes – under new advice being given to them this week. While the use of mobile phones in school is already tightly controlled by many leaders – education secretary Gillian Keegan is introducing fresh guidance that now backs a ban for the whole school day. The rules, which will serve as guidance to schools, rather than law, will ‘support’ headteachers, says the…