King’s Park Secondary School has a number of key staff who play a vital role in the Health and Wellbeing of our young people. To ensure we ‘Get It Right For Every Pupil’ we take a multi-agency approach. Below are some of the support systems we have in place at the school:
Pastoral Care Team
We have 4 House Groups in the school and each House has a dedicated pastoral care teacher. The House Groups and teachers are:
Arran House – Katie McGugan
Lewis House – Fiona McTaggart
Mull House – Anna Gibson
Skye House – Ian Samson
Each pupil is allocated a House Group when they arrive at the school. The pastoral care teacher of each House is the named person responsible for overseeing each child’s school experience.
Pupil Support Department
The main aim of Pupil Support is to offer proactive and co-ordinated support to pupils who are experiencing difficulties. It is hoped that this support will enable pupils to achieve their full potential.
“Getting it Right for Every Child”
We aim to do this by supporting pupils, their families, teaching staff and partner agencies to provide an appropriate and flexible educational package, wherever necessary.
The Pupil Support department creates an environment in which pupils are encouraged to:
- Cultivate attitudes of tolerance
- Have respect for others
- Develop positive working relationships
- Take responsibility for their actions and accept the consequences of these
- Develop their trust, self-esteem confidence and resilience
- Set themselves high expectations and goals
Pupil Support provides curricular, behaviour and/or one to one support to pupils. Any pupil at any time during their school life may require additional support. Pupils working within Pupil Support have a Wellbeing Assessment Plan containing strategies and targets assigned by the pupil, parent and PT of Pupil Support or Pastoral Care. These are revisited at the beginning of each term.
The PT Pupil Support has a caseload of pupils that they work with on a one to one liaising with parents, staff and outside agencies. The pupils on this caseload are highlighted by Depute Head Teachers at their weekly house meetings. Pupils allocated to caseloads may work with the PT pupil support for a short time or be offered continuous support for their Social and emotional behaviour or additional support needs. Each case is revisited weekly at House meetings.
MCR Pathways
MCR Pathways was founded in 2007 to address the gap in life-chances and educational outcomes, between care-experienced young people and their peers. The MCR charity was established to support young people who have experienced disadvantage and help them realise their full potential through education. We do this through our school-based mentoring programme – matching young people with a fully-trained volunteer mentor. More information can be found here: https://mcrpathways.org/about-mcr-pathways/
FARE
- Dealing with Difference programme
Careers Adviser
Planning for choices and changes is a key component of Health and Wellbeing and is one of the ‘Responsibility of All’ outcomes. Our careers advisor is a fantastic support to our young people and is able to offer free expert advice on positive destinations when planning to leave school. To arrange an appointment please do not hesitate to contact the pastoral care team who can set that up for you.
Integration Centre
Hi, I’m Mrs Ogilvie and I am the Principal Teacher of the Integration Centre. I work closely with young people in King’s Park Secondary helping them to develop skills for learning and prepare for their transition from school to ensure they are ready for work or to go into further education. My background subject is Biology and I especially love literacy and all things to do with Science. Please follow our department twitter for updates.
https://twitter.com/KPSS_IntCentre
Nurture
Glasgow is a nurturing city and at King’s Park Secondary School we try and adopt this nurturing approach. We have ‘Nurture Strategy of the Week’ and monthly ‘Nurture Matters’ sessions to support staff with their nurturing approaches. Glasgow City Council’s nurturing twitter page can be accessed here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/glasgownurture
Developing Young Workforce
Campus Police Officer
PC McFarlane is our campus police officer. He is an excellent support in safeguarding the Health and Wellbeing of our young people.
Health and Wellbeing Hub and Sensory room
ESOL
ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) is the provision of English language classes for people whose first language is not English. In schools, English language support comes under the heading English as an Additional Language (EAL), where the support is wider to encompass support for children and young people to access the school curriculum.
Our ESOL department operates in the best interests of the children. We aim to provide a service for all those who need it and are able to identify and meet each child’s individual needs. We encourage participation and engagement with families and the wider community. In ESOL we value and celebrate diversity. Our service aims to:
· Support children with English as an additional language to develop English language for life, learning and work.
· Develop children’s pride and confidence in all the language skills they possess.
· Provide learning experiences which enable children with English as an additional language to fully access the curriculum.
· We offer ESOL in Higher where pupils work with a dedicated ESOL teacher.
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
The DofE is a life-changing adventure you don’t want to miss. It’s about going the extra mile – learning new skills for work and life, getting fitter, helping others, and exploring the countryside. Millions of young people in the UK have already done their DofE and gained a widely recognised personal achievement award. Employers, Universities and Colleges all highly value the skills and experience that you gain from completing an award.
Adventurous, caring, sporty, creative… however you might describe yourself, the DofE is for you.
Anyone in a school year in which you turn 14 to aged 24 can take part. There are three progressive levels of programmes which lead to a Bronze, Silver or Gold DofE Award.
To achieve your Bronze Award, you’ll need to complete your own programme of activities in Volunteering, Physical, Skills sections then train for and complete a 2 day (1 night) outdoor expedition.
There are several pathways to completing your DofE award including S3 and S4 Masterclasses and subject choices in the senior phase. If you would like more information about this widely recognised youth achievement award, speak to Mr Wilson in the partners room.
gw19wilsonandrew3@glow.sch.uk
Active Schools
Active Schools aims to provide more and higher quality opportunities to take part in sport and physical activity before school, during lunchtime and after school, and to develop effective pathways between schools and sports clubs in the local community.
Active Schools has worked with schools for over 10 years providing opportunities for children and young people to get involved, and stay involved, in sport and will continue to make a significant contribution to a world class sporting system in Scotland.
To contact our Active Schools Coordinator please contact – gw22kellyrobbie@glow.ea.glasgow.sch.uk
