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Pastoral Information

The Pastoral Team work towards positive wellbeing in school, supporting students and families alongside school staff and other agencies, to develop rounded and resilient individuals.

Form Tutors

Form Tutors are the students' first point of contact as they progress through the school, building relationships as well as monitoring academic and personal progress, behaviour and attendance.  Once a week in Form Time, tutors lead a session from our Headstrong programme, which promotes and develops emotional health and wellbeing. To view the materials used please click here.

Peer Mentors

Students from Years 10 to 13 have the opportunity to volunteer and train as Peer Mentors. This scheme is a valuable way to support our younger students who may be struggling with the transition to secondary school, friendships, or other concerns. Peer Mentors are trained and supervised by the Pastoral Team, fostering communication and developing skills that mentors and mentees alike will use later on in life.

Pastoral Team

The Pastoral Team work in conjunction with Form Tutors and Heads of Year to offer support to students struggling with a range of emotional, social and health concerns.

  • Head of Pastoral Support: Tara Batt-Corcoran
  • Deputy Pastoral Lead: Hannah Mellor
  • Pastoral Assistant: Charlene Weaver
  • Pastoral Assistant (Sixth Form): Trudy Hankin
  • Pastoral Admin Assistants: Kate Parker, Bobbi Virdee

The Pastoral room is a dedicated space where students can sit quietly or speak to Pastoral staff; the team offers a listening ear and ongoing emotional support.

Outside agencies

Where appropriate, students and families may be referred to professional therapists in school for 1:1 or group sessions, including counsellors through NESSie (North Herts Emotional Support in Schools Service https://nessieined.com/), or mentoring with the Phase team (https://phase-hitchin.org/).

Where students or families require a higher tier of support around mental health, wellbeing and safeguarding, the Pastoral Team may liaise with external professionals, to support a student’s treatment plan in school.

Further support

Apart from the below links to local sources of support, we have a huge list of other sources of help on our Useful Links page.

Also take a look at our A-Z Information for Parents page, where you will find a wealth of downloadable material covering all areas of wellbeing.

Bereavement support

www.stand-by-me.org.uk

Building resilience

www.gritcharity.org/the-program

Counselling help

www.tilehouse.org/young-peoples-counselling

Self-referral for mental wellbeing

www.hpft.nhs.uk/wellbeing-service

Young carers in Herts

http://ycih.org

Youth projects

www.ychertfordshire.org/support-for-young-people/north-herts

Youth projects for young people with additional needs

www.ychertfordshire.org/youth-projects-for-young-people-with-learning-disabilities