Pastoral Care

Pastoral Team

The Waseley Hills pastoral team share and promote the vision in working together to ensure where it is required that each child and family has a bespoke support plan that will allow them the best outcomes with opportunities to achieve and for the students to be the best versions of themselves. We work within the team around the child approach in order to best facilitate working towards these positive outcomes for our young people.

The synergy of the Send, Safeguarding, Behaviour and Welfare team is strong and lies central to the drive here at Waseley, every day, every child matters and we work to ensure the students and families receive the support they need.

The Pastoral team is led by Mrs Meredith and includes Mr Blount as Strategic Behaviour Lead, Heads of Year Mrs Joshi, Mrs Burke – Martin, Miss Green, Miss Ralph and Mrs Williams as well as a fantastically skilled student welfare team led By Mrs McLeod. Rebecca Masters offer a further layer of support and is an integral member of the team as our Student Wellbeing Lead. Waseley Hills is lucky to have Mrs Whitcombe – Troth and Ms Moore who are a dedicated attendance department that work as an important part of the pastoral team.

Waved Approach

Our waved approach in all areas of the pastoral structure allow for a shared drive in all aspects of a child’s journey here at Waseley, from tutor time, attendance, in the classroom, behaviour, rewards, wellbeing and Send. Working together to ensure all our staff, parents and student have a secure understanding of how at Waseley we ensure we get the best possible outcomes.

Family Help and Early Help

Right Support, right time

	Purpose	Timescale	Threshold	Allocation	Impact Monitoring
Wave One
Wellbeing Check In	Brief check in for various reasons eg low mood, emotional, after an incident previously poor results etc	One off	Directed by HOY / LSWO– Debrief- Spontaneous daily need.	YG Link SWO	SWO
Informal Check In	To provide link adult in school To monitor pupils that have had intervention previously	Ongoing weekly one 1 intervention cycle	Directed by LSWO through CFC or Intervention reviews.	Need specific SWO	SWO /HOW
Safeguarding Check In	Check in linked to SG concern or arising concern.	On off - (if need more cfc completed and allocated for informal / formal)	Directed by LSWO, SDDSL, HOY	YG Link SWO	SDSL /Allocated SWO
Hub Support - SR	To provide initial support To provide routine and safe place To provide safe familiar EAA.	One off Completed at social time	Student Led	Rota SWO	Ongoing
Care Calls	To provide opportunity to discuss removable of barriers. This could be around attendance, lack of engagement in lesson, behaviour and wellbeing Purpose to encourage positive engagement in school To encourage a sense of belonging To bridge home and school communication To prevent risk of PA	Ongoing 1 intervention cycle	Directed by HOY	YG Link SWO	Data from CC and Arbor
Wave Two
Chill, Spill, Colour	Provide small group communication Work on specific need through adult led communication To provide talking therapy using creative engagement Provide key adult				Outcome Evaluation Form
SWO Key worker	Provide a safe and reliable EAA To complete some targeted work with the student To monitor student progress	Initially 1 intervention cycle	Allocated at all waves from Informal to SSS	YG Link SWO SWO Specific	N/A
Girlspire	To provide engagement opportunity in small, safe group setting To inspire young girls to try something new, expanding their aspirations. Promote wellbeing, positive sense of self and overall wellbeing/ outcomes Providing a key EAA	10 week cycle	CFC allocation PASS Data allocation	KMC, TST, ARO	Outcome Evaluation Form
Chill, Spill, Colour	Provide small group communication Work on specific need through adult led communication To provide talking therapy using creative engagement Provide key EAA	Weekly for 1 intervention cycle	PASS data allocation	KMC,	Outcome Evaluation Form
FAB Group	To provide EAA To provide opportunity to talk whilst distraction through creativity To encourage positive relationships	Weekly for 1 intervention cycle	PASS data allocation	ARO, TST	Outcome Evaluation Form
3 C’s Cooking Club	Small group learning To provide key adult Encourage positive relationships Improve home school links Provide students with new opportunities	6 weeks	PP LSWO /GDO	KMC ARO	Outcome Evaluation Form
Journal Jazz	Provide small group communication Work on specific need through adult led communication To provide talking therapy using creative engagement Provide key adult	Weekly for 1 intervention cycle	Allocated through PASS data	KMC	Outcome Evaluation Form
Hub Support	Provide an emotionally safe environment To meet all welfare needs To provide EAA To provide immediate emotional support To provide a ‘halfway house’ between classroom learning and refocus (Reengagement / regulation space) Intervention space Transition support	In lesson	Culture – All staff Lesson time – On call SWO	Rota SWO	SWO
SWO Support Session	Provide an EAA To provide structured intervention / targeted support Behaviour reflection Mediation / restorative support Transition Emotional support	1 off to target specific need (behaviour, mediation, spontaneous need) Initially 1 intervention cycle	Intervention – CFC allocation Pass Data Allocation Mediation, transition etc	Intervention - SWO specific YG link SWO	Data from CC, Monitoring and Observation
Wave Three
Respect	Provide targeted support for students involved in antisocial behaviour, CSE, CCE in the community. Provide a confidential space with external professional	Ongoing with Impact	CFC Allocation NOTE; Only open to students living in Worcestershire	N/A	6 weekly reviews
Malachai	Provide the whole family a therapeutic approach to family support in the home		SDSL CFC Allocation		Outcomes on portal
The Basement Project	NEW - TBC	TBC	CFC Allocation PASS Data Allocation Behaviour Decline CC		TBC
Boxing Mentoring	Provide personal, emotional and academic support through non-contact physical sport.	6 weekly intervention cycle	CFC Allocation Pupils at risk of PEX, high level of suspensions	N/A	6 Weekly Review
Onside - Melo	To provide a range of early intervention and preventative support options to improve MH and wellbeing of students through 1;1 session in person or virtually. These include a variety of needs – see MELO table	Ongoing	CFC Allocations	N/A	N/A
WEST	Provide student (1:1) to manage low level MH concerns including anxiety, through CBT. To provide workshops exploring key themes impacting students mental health eg sleep, exam stress To provide school with WSA audit tool to meet 5 areas of wellbeing.	6 weekly sessions.	CFC allocations See threshold chart.	N/A	Written feedback - monitoring
YMCA Mentoring	Provide student with consistent, supportive relationship with EAA (Mentor) Develop confidence, resilience, and life skills while guiding them toward educational and personal goals. Low mood, disengagement, behaviour, community behaviour, identifying barriers, strategy improvement	Ongoing – reviewed half termly	CFC Allocations	N/A	Outcomes Star – Witten feedback Half termly reviews
Touchstones	To provide a safe space To provide EAA To provide bereavement support after they have experienced some of 10 stages of grief (approx. 2 months for a young person)	Ongoing – reviewed 6 weekly	CFC allocations	N/A	Half termly reviews
Forge PRU	Focused behaviour intervention	1 intervention cycle of 6 weeks	Allocations through ABL -CFC Students at risk of PEX, at risk of high suspensions, students that need poor behaviour alternative	N/A	Outcome evaluation form
Family Support from CS	To provide families with strategies to remove barriers to a range of concerns To look at holistic needs of the whole family To signpost to supportive services Provide student and family with a familiar support network working towards targeted outcomes	6 weeks initially and then reviews	SDSL, KMC, TST C4C Allocations My concern Family need to consent and want to engage	N/A	Through SG reviews SDSL /DSL
Steer Clear	Early intervention programme which supports Young People aged 10-17 living in West Mercia who have been referred to the service due to intel that they are/on the periphery of carrying knives. 1:1 or group work	2x 1 hour sessions	My Concern LSWO, SDDSL, Student needs to live in WEST Mercia	N/A	Ongoing Monitoring

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