Pastoral Care and Student Wellbeing
When people think of "Pastoral Care", they often think of behaviour or the church, when, in fact, Pastoral Care in a school encompasses so much more.
Effective Pastoral Care is achieved through promoting positive school environments that support the development of every student in the following areas:
- Physical
- Intellectual
- Social
- Emotional
Concepts to be addressed
- School expectations
- Goal setting - referring to SEEING RED CARS
- Organisational skills at school
- Time management and effective use of a School Diary
- Effective study habits
- Growth mindset
- Who's who in the school - who can I go to when ...
- Identity, self-awareness and self-esteem
- Positive attitudes
- Respectful relationships
- Positive behaviour
- Resilience
- Communication - body language, verbal etc
- Understanding personality types
- Building confidence
- Recognising personal differences
- Appropriate interaction with others
- Acceptance and tolerance to others
- Assertiveness vs aggression
- Leadership and team building
- Feelings - it's ok to share
- Active citizenship
- Ethical bystanding - looking out for friends
- Appropriate use of technology - social networking and cyber safety
- Decision making
- Budgeting
- Job readiness
- Drugs, alcohol, driving and parties
- Personal health and hygiene
- Healthy eating and exercise
- Puberty - My body and how it is changing
- Basic first aid