Working in Partnership Year 7 Pastoral Team

Year 7 Pastoral Team Structure Parents Assistant Principal: Inclusion Ms Swartz Head of Learning Ms Fraser Deputy Head of Learning Ms Robinson Year Assistant Ms Shoker Form Tutors Students

What is our role? To work in partnership with parents & carers To ensure that all students are safe To ensure that all students are learning and make progress To help remove any barriers to learning To have an overview of each student, their general progress, their needs and provisions

What are we aiming to achieve? 100% attendance and punctuality Progress within lessons Positive learning behaviour Developing the whole child

How do we do this? Rewards – Perfect Club, Tutor group of the week, Postcards/letters home, certificates, Vivo Miles, Rewards Cupboard, Praise, catching students ‘being good’ Sanctions, where necessary Resolution meetings Parental contact Monitoring of lessons/student conduct Arranging support where necessary

How can we best work together to achieve this? By maintaining regular contact with parents & carers By involving the students(s) concerned and ensuring they understand what may be happening By dealing with each issue on a case-by-case basis By working with other professionals, both within COLA and outside agencies By praising and rewarding students and informing parents & carers of students’ achievements By supporting each other with necessary sanctions for poor behaviour

If you have an issue… The first point of contact should be the Form Tutor, unless you deem the issue to be serious Form Tutors and the Year 7 pastoral team can be contacted by telephone or email We are happy to arrange appointments for parents & carers to come into school to see us personally The Year 7 pastoral team are all teaching members of staff; sometimes, we may not be able to deal with issues immediately; however, we will endeavour to deal with any issues as quickly as possible and communicate outcomes to all concerned To avoid disappointment call ahead to arrange an appointment

We look forward to further working with you to secure the progress, happiness and achievement of every student at City of London Academy