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• Child Centred Policing Team Collaboration

  Tue 16 Sep 2025

  Dear Parents and Carers,

   

  I hope you have had a good start to the school year and that your children have returned to school successfully and have begun to settle.

   

  I am writing to let you know that last week, Laleham Gap welcomed a visit from the Child Centred Policing Team to discuss collaborative work and support for children and families. Some pupils may have seen officers or their vehicles around the school, but please be assured this was a planned and positive visit, marking the beginning of a closer working relationship with Kent Police.

   

  The Team work closely with schools and will be visiting us regularly. Their aim is to help children and families understand the supportive role of the police, in a safe and educational way. Their visits will be starting from this week. Among other things, they will:

   

  • Support the delivery of lessons from the Police Education (PolEd) curriculum;
  • Attend parent events such as Question and Answer sessions or coffee mornings; • Support education days where the officers will talk to children about their roles, uniform, equipment and vehicles;
  • Arrange bike security marking schemes to help in the event of a lost or stolen bicycle.

   

  You will see officers visiting the school over the coming weeks, including at drop-off and pick-up times. We are also exploring suitable dates for a parent coffee morning with the team. If you see them, please feel free to say hello and help reassure your children that this is a positive partnership - no one is in trouble.

   

  This initiative expands the relationship that we already have with Kent Police as an Operation Encompass School.

   

  If you’d like to learn more about how schools and agencies work together to support families, please refer to the Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance. A short explanatory video is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

  v=G4ntSqMCSUI

   

  These links will be active in the digital version of this letter, which will be uploaded to the school website this week.

   

  Please also note that we continue to work towards achieving the Leading Parent Partnership Award, and we are always looking for new ways to support and engage with you.

   

  I look forward to meeting with you at our next parent centred event to answer any questions or listen to ideas you may have, or, simply catch up. Please look out for further details soon.

   

  Kind regards,

  Mr Payne

  Assistant Headteacher

  (Safeguarding and Wellbeing

• Headteacher Letter

  Wed 03 Sep 2025

  3 September 2025

   

  Dear Parents and Carers  

    

  I trust that this letter finds you, your friends and family in good health.   I hope you have had a restful Summer. It has been great to welcome your children back to school. We acknowledge how difficult this time is for some of your children, and we appreciate the anxiety that you and your child may be feeling. Please contact us if there is anything we can do to support you further.

   

  I wish to congratulate our students who sat exams this Summer. There were many excellent results, and we wish all our leavers every success and happiness.

   

  Following a few incidents with metal water bottle we are now requesting that pupils bring in plastic bottles. These should be no bigger than 500ml as any bigger as they will not fit under the water fountains.

   

  Parent pick up – The Thanet Inclusion Support Service (TISS) no longer operates from our site. These two rooms will be developed this year to increase the offer and capacity of our school. The building will be renamed WAVE (Wellbeing And Value-based Education/We All Value Everyone). In future correspondence I will refer to the building and car park as WAVE. If you collect your child at the end of the day from the WAVE car park, from tonight pupils will exit from the new exit gate 10 metres from the existing one.

   

  Pupil photographs – Our school photographer will be on site on Tuesday 9 September to take pupil photos. If you would like sibling photographs taken, can you please contact us at Secretary@lgs.kent.sch.uk. A letter with permission slip will be sent to all parents this week.

   

  Best wishes

  Les Milton

  Headteacher