Would it be possible to add a sweatshirt or hoodie with the school logo to the uniform options (in addition to the quarter zip)?

Would the school consider becoming phone-free for pupils during the school day?

It’s highly likely that we’ll do a full phone consultation next session.  There is a fair bit of emerging science, albeit contested, that phones are not ‘good’ for young people.  They are however, highly addictive, and that’s one of the challenges.

We sought support from our Police Scotland School Liaison Officer who attended with a colleague and they engaged with the young person and their family member who the school had contacted. Unfortunately the shouting and screaming at the police officers happened in a very public part of the school at class changeover, so was very visible to other students.

I did not to put this in my Update as a warning as I don’t think it would reach the audience it needs to.

The main means of entry in such incidents appears to be 2 fold

1.  other students letting them in;  we treat this a serious breach of discipline and take appropriate action as a result
2. fire doors left open; we’ve just had a number of our fire doors replaced to help with this.

In addition,  like most secondary schools we ‘cover’ every period in the week with a duty system.  This means a promoted member of staff is on call to respond to incidents.  These staff wander the building, with a radio when on duty.  That generally helps us to become aware of incidents quickly and in a position to respond.  That was the case last week.

Finally,  such incidents reinforce our belief that our school dress code is important for security reasons.  An item, e.g.,  tie, quarter-zip, blazer e.t.c., helps us quickly identify LHS students.