{"id":2,"date":"2011-11-10T10:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T10:59:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:24:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHPastoralSupportWebsite\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pastoral Support\u00a0for Students<\/h1>\n<p><strong><u>What is our Pastoral\u00a0Support system?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All the young people are assigned to a Pastoral\u00a0Support teacher on entering our school. Pastoral\u00a0Support provides the link in the educational chain between home and various departments in our school. All teachers in a school have a clear responsibility for the children&#8217;s welfare. It is the Pastoral\u00a0Support teacher who has an &#8216;all round&#8217; picture of an individual pupil&#8217;s progress. The Pastoral\u00a0Support teacher also prepares a structured Pastoral\u00a0Support programme to help all the pupils at certain stages of development. Pastoral\u00a0Support staff are therefore engaged in a number of important tasks in addition to their teaching duties including monitoring progress, attendance, attainment, well being, etc. Those identified as being at risk are identified and every encouragement is given to achieve their full potential.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>What do Pastoral\u00a0Support teachers do?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pastoral\u00a0Support teachers help in the following ways. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>caring and providing support for <u>all<\/u> pupils<\/li>\n<li>developing close links with Primary 7 pupils and teachers<\/li>\n<li>taking care of new admissions<\/li>\n<li>regularly reviewing the academic progress of young people<\/li>\n<li>assisting with options choices<\/li>\n<li>actively promoting social inclusion<\/li>\n<li>monitoring of attendance and timekeeping<\/li>\n<li>caring for pupils who face difficulties \u2013 emotional, physical, mental\u00a0and in school work<\/li>\n<li>preparing reports on pupils \u2013 for employers, colleges, universities, etc<\/li>\n<li>contacting parents of individual pupils \u2013 by letter, telephone, interview and meeting<\/li>\n<li>linking with supporting agencies such as the Careers&#8217; Service, Social Work, Community Organisations, etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The role of Pastoral\u00a0Support is central to much that happens in our school. So essential is its contribution that it is our clear policy to involve not only teachers promoted in pastoral care but also <strong>all<\/strong> teachers on our staff. <strong>All staff<\/strong> are encouraged to take a close interest in the education and welfare of the young people they teach. All teachers are required to contribute to the programme of Curricular and Vocational Pastoral\u00a0Support and to the Personal and Social Development of their pupils. All teachers are urged to contribute to the ethos of our school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Our Vision, Aim and Commitment<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Our <strong>vision<\/strong> is to be a school that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>is welcoming with genuine friendliness, concern and sense of community<\/li>\n<li>strives for educational excellence<\/li>\n<li>encourages the value of hard work<\/li>\n<li>encourages staff to reflect on the Gospel and its call to mission<\/li>\n<li>recognises the uniqueness and dignity of each student as a gift of God<\/li>\n<li>is joyful, optimistic and genuinely happy<\/li>\n<li>speaks of Jesus\u2019 love through the strength of the loving kindness of our staff<\/li>\n<li>seeks opportunities for celebration<\/li>\n<li>recognises and expresses our Catholic Tradition with signs and symbols of our faith, in Eucharistic celebration, and through our Religious Education Programmes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our <strong>aim<\/strong> is to help all pupils achieve their full potential in each aspect of their development \u2013 academic, spiritual, physical, personal, social and emotional.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so we will contribute to achieving the vision and aims of ERC Education Department: of Everyone Attaining, Everyone Achieving through Excellent Experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The intention is that we <strong>Get It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC)<\/strong> and that all of our young people are <u>S<\/u>afe, <u>H<\/u>ealthy, <u>A<\/u>chieving, <u>N<\/u>urtured, <u>A<\/u>ctive <u>R<\/u>espected, <u>R<\/u>esponsible and <u>I<\/u>ncluded.<\/p>\n<p>Through the ongoing implementation of <strong>Curriculum for Excellence<\/strong> it is our ambition that our young people will develop as: <strong>Confident Individuals, Responsible Citizens, Successful Learners and Effective Contributors.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastoral Support\u00a0for Students What is our Pastoral\u00a0Support system? All the young people are assigned to a Pastoral\u00a0Support teacher on entering our school. Pastoral\u00a0Support provides the link in the educational chain between home and various departments in our school. All teachers in a school have a clear responsibility for the children&#8217;s welfare. It is the Pastoral\u00a0Support teacher who has an &#8216;all round&#8217; picture of an individual pupil&#8217;s progress. The Pastoral\u00a0Support teacher<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHPastoralSupportWebsite\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4499,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHPastoralSupportWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHPastoralSupportWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHPastoralSupportWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHPastoralSupportWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHPastoralSupportWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHPastoralSupportWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHPastoralSupportWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/SNHPastoralSupportWebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}