Pastoral managers and Heads of Year

• How to be an active and engaging leader of tutors, developing team cohesion along with strategies aimed at developing student personal responsibility, independence and self-esteem

Jo Shrimpton Head of Year 9 at WGGS

• How to be an active and engaging leader of tutors, developing team cohesion along with strategies aimed at developing student personal responsibility, independence and self-esteem

Managing your team

• As a pastoral manager/head of year, your principal responsibilities vary considerably from school to school

• Identify all the duties/functions/tasks you engaged in yesterday, in order to fulfil your responsibilities

• As a HOY or Pastoral leader, you are a leader of 2 teams. Your year group and your year team of tutors. They are interdependent.

• What qualities do you hope to find in your tutors?

• How is your role different from theirs, and what can you do to ‘make pastoral care effective’?

Establishing good practice

• Keep tutors informed. • Take minutes for year team meetings.• Visit forms regularly. • Get to know your students.• When initiating change ensure you combine a

good reason, with clear vision and an action plan.

Weekly Focus Competition

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27-Jan 5 6 1 3 2 4Excellents

03-Feb 2 6 1 6 6 6Music

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Promoting Team cohesion and creativity

• Inter/ Intra form competitions • Share common values and principles• Students recognise ‘a united front’• Create opportunities for positive interaction

with your year group• Welcome new ideas, however apparently

unworkable

• How to be an active and engaging leader of tutors, developing team cohesion along with strategies aimed at developing student personal responsibility, independence and self-esteem

Scenario 1

1. Sarah is refusing to come to school, due to relationship issues. She feels isolated, her parents are concerned and they have phoned to request a meeting with the Head of Year.

What strategies could you put in place?

Scenario 2

2. One of your tutors has not responded well to the needs of their form. He is an experienced HOD. He does not relate very well to the tutor group, and has little enthusiasm for the administrative chores of form tutor work.

How do you address this issue?

ReportsOne report does not fit all!

Changing behaviour

Helpful tips• Convey confidence that the

behaviour can/will change• Seek to improve self-esteem

in the long term• Mark and praise every

improvement, no matter how small

Things to Avoid• Insulting, belittling the

person• Damaging self esteem• A catalogue of additional or

previous misdemeanours

Thank you for listening.

Any questions?