The QEGS Pastoral Year
As a school, we are keen to develop all of our pupils both academically and pastorally. This is founded in a belief that well-rounded students need an education in both areas. To this end, the QEGS Pastoral Year serves a number of important functions:
1. It identifies the key pastoral themes that we as a school think are important. These themes have been selected by both teachers and students as being those that are significant and worthy of the whole school’s focus.
2. By identifying these key pastoral themes and timetabling them into a pastoral year, we will create consistency throughout the school’s pastoral programme. Every form in every year will explore these themes and by doing them concurrently with everyone else, we aim to create a communal learning environment.
3. By revisiting themes every year and building on prior learning, we aim to keep important issues at the forefront of student and teacher thinking and generate a deeper level of understanding that evolves over time and remains current and relevant.
The Pastoral Year appears below. SLT and Heads of Year will refer to these pastoral themes in their assemblies with students. Form tutors will spend at least one form period per week on the given half-termly theme.
Half Term |
Theme |
Autumn Half Term 1 |
School Work
|
Autumn Half Term 2 |
Mental Health and Well-being
|
Spring Half Term 1 |
Futures
|
Spring Half Term 2 |
Social/Personal growth
|
Summer Half Term 1 |
Outside world
|
Summer Half Term 2 |
Communication
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