{"id":16,"date":"2018-02-19T12:58:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/lourdessecondaryschoolpastoralcare\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2019-09-09T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T14:11:08","slug":"pastoral-care-at-lourdes-secondary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/lourdessecondaryschoolpastoralcare\/pastoral-care-at-lourdes-secondary\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastoral Care@Lourdes Secondary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastoral Care@ Lourdes Secondary\"\"<\/h1>\n

What is our Pastoral <\/strong>Care system?<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the young people are assigned to a Pastoral Care teacher on entering our school. Lourdes Secondary\u00a0has a horizontal system meaning\u00a0one Pastoral Carer\u00a0per year group.\u00a0Pastoral Care 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`s welfare. In particular, through our Personal Support programme pupils have access to\u00a0their Pastoral Care teacher \u00a0in class\u00a0\u00a0for the duration of their time at Lourdes Secondary.<\/p>\n

It is the Pastoral Care teacher who has an `all round` picture of an individual pupil`s progress. The Pastoral Care teacher also prepares a structured Pastoral Care programme to help all the pupils at certain stages of development. This includes\u00a0participating in the Youth\u00a0Philanthropy Initiative in S2 and Headstrong in S3 for example.<\/p>\n

Pastoral Care 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

What do Pastoral Care teachers do?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pastoral Care teachers help in the following ways. For example:<\/p>\n