Charity ‘phone- fast’ at Limavady High
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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Hide AdBeth, 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.