Student Support & Pastoral Care

The student support officers provide a robust and comprehensive system for supporting students’ learning by developing strong links and relationships with parents, carers and services in the local community. Wherever possible the student support officers work to ensure better outcomes by creating bespoke interventions that create opportunities that lead to positive outcomes for every child.

Every Director of Learning has a student support officer dedicated to the welfare of that year group. Thus, parents, carers, students, form tutors, teachers, associate staff and leadership have a named, dedicated, specialist student support officer as a point of contact.

The student support officers use specialist programmes that challenge students, who need to modify their behaviour and deal with the root cause of the problem. Directors of Learning for each year group, together with form tutors, monitor the academic progress of students, keeping parents and carers informed regularly about their progress in relation to targets. The student support officer works side by side with the Director of Learning and all members of staff to ensure that “creating opportunity, releasing potential and achieving excellence” is achieved.

Punctuality, attendance and uniform are monitored carefully and the “Behaviour for Learning Policy” embedded firmly by all members of staff.

Pastoral Care

The care and development of the children are the concern of all members of staff. Each form tutor is responsible for providing pastoral support to each child in their form. In turn, form tutors receive support from the student support officer and the Director of Learning.