1. SWA Pastoral Care & Today’s Teenagers
Aims:
To understand how we support students at SWA
To understand issues affecting teenagers

2. SWA Year 9 Team 421 students 1 HOY Richard Sinclair 1 PSO Tanya Clark
1 AHOY Ashleigh Duguid
14 Tutors
5 Heads of House
Attendance officer
Inclusion support officer
SEN team
Safeguarding team (8 members)
Rich

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
Rich

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
Rich

5. 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
Rich

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

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

8. 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
Hood

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

10. Young minds advice
Hood

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

12. 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
Hood

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

14. Today’s teenagers & Pastoral care Mrs C Hood & Mr R Sinclair 108
Homework
Mr D Hall
Main Hall
9-1 System & Monitoring  106
Mr I Butler
106
Music & Drama Opportunities
Miss H Meadows
109
Sporting Opportunities
Mr J Hart
111
Revision Techniques
Mr R Candlin
113
Marking Policy
Ms K Bridge
115
English, Maths & Science  Curriculum
Miss L Jonson, Mr J Togher & Ms J Moffat
Theatre
Engineering Opportunities
Mrs E Lucas
117
Career Opportunities
Miss E Foreman
116
SEN
Mr T Rowell
119