Pastoral Support Programme

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At NeuroHeadway, we understands the importance of enabling the voice of the child to be heard to promote safeguarding and well-being. We want everyone involved with our programs to feel well supported and build trusting relationships with all our pupils and their families.

Pastoral care underpins personal development and we know from experience that with outstanding pastoral care, students feel they belong and their self-esteem is able to flourish because they feel valued and cared for.

Our team works with students, ensuring that a confidential, professional, non-judgmental and sensitive service is provided, so they can then lead fulfilling and balanced lives at school and beyond.

Examples of our Pastoral Care Team’s work in schools include:

  • Lunchtime self-referral drop-in sessions with our pastoral care team
  • Classroom questionnaires: children respond to questions related to feeling safe at school. The outcomes of these surveys are then used to inform interventions and practice within the school to promote the voice of the children.
  • ‘Worry boxes’ in every class throughout different year groups. These are monitored by teachers and the Pastoral Support Officer.
  • Peer mentors – listening to children and facilitating new activities in responding to what children have asked for. Peer mentors are trained as talking buddies. Talking buddies support children who feel that they want to talk to someone about their related problems and concerns.
  • Children who have been identified as vulnerable are given a key worker at play and lunch times. This ensures that the social and emotional needs of vulnerable children are being addressed consistently.

Benefits for pupils:

  • Robust Inclusion Team: Therapists, Wellbeing Practitioner, Coach/Mentor, full-time SENCo & Pastoral Support Officer
  • Open door policies for all pupils with the Headteacher
  • Staff training on how to provide a nurturing environment and children are taught to speak to members of staff about any problems they have
  • Rigorous behaviour monitoring and looking for possible causes of the behaviour
  • Providing displays around the school, promoting wellbeing and providing opportunities to talk
  • Assemblies on health and wellbeing
  • Nurture groups run by the therapeutic team
  • Strong partnership with parents

Benefits for staff:

  • Therapeutic support for staff
  • Safeguarding awareness developed through PSHE
  • Regular staff meetings to discuss welfare of specific pupils
  • Weekly therapeutic and pastoral team meetings
  • Weekly safeguarding meeting
  • Termly reviews

Benefits for parents:

  • In house counselling service
  • Joint parent and child sessions through the therapeutic team
  • Dedicated Pastoral Support Officer. Onsite daily to help with any concerns a parent may have
  • Secondary transition work
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