1. SWA Pastoral Care & Today’s Teenagers
Mark Gibbs, Associate Principal

2. SWA Year 9 Team 434 students 1 HOY Vishalie Yadav 1 PSO Jo Abbott
16 Tutors
5 Heads of House
Attendance officer
Inclusion support officer
SEN team
Safeguarding team (8 members)

3. Communication channels
Please contact your tutor’s in the first instance
Day to Day support
School
Staff initial and e.g
Parentmail
Key numbers
(school switchboard)
Attendance officer
Notes in planners
Hospital/Doctor’s notes

4. School day Registration 8.20am-8.40am Period 1 8.40am-9.40am
Break 10.40am-11.00am
Period am-12.00am
Period am-1.00pm
Lunch 1.00pm-2.00pm
Period pm-3.00pm
Late buses available on a Tuesday and a Thursday

5. Values Respect Empathy Determination Teamwork Integrity Ingenuity
Equality

6. What are we able to offer as a Pastoral team at SWA?
SWA has a…. First Aid co-ordinator Young carers co-ordinator Counselling service MIND Careers Advisor Brook and CAMHs ‘drop in’ Clinic School nurse drop in clinic Sixth form academic and behaviour mentoring scheme Access to Family support, Drug and Alcohol support, LGBTQ support, parenting network links Police Liaison Social services support Bereavement support

7. What’s it like to be a teenager today?
HARD HARD!!!

8. Digital footprint Online safety – Gaming, text messages, Apps
Social networking
Radicalisation
Cyber bullying
Sexting
Addiction

9. Advice on phones and internet
Set up open dialogue with your child –ground rules
Monitor what they do and what they look at. Parental blocks
Set up times at home that they can use tablets, computers etc.
Know the social media/apps that they are using- do your research!.
Shut off Wi-Fi at a certain time at home
Take their mobiles off them at night

10. Mental health Peer pressure Exam stress
Parental pressure and school pressure
Eating disorders
Fitting in/frienships
Sexuality
Self harm
Body image
Anxiety & Depression
Suicide

11. Young minds advice

12. Sex, Drugs and Alcohol Peer pressure Cannabis Legal high’s
Local area and community and Police Liason
Engaging minds curriculum
Assemblies
Tutor sessions
Sex –education fortnight

13. Young people might take drugs to:
Fit in with their friends
Feel grown up
To rebel
To experiment
Because “everybody else” does—Peer pressure
Urban dictionary – names change all the time

14. Where do we get support? School website
HOY and PSO team
Parent info-
If you need help please ask