Pastoral managers and Heads of Year
• How to be an active and engaging leader of
tutors, developing team cohesion along with
strategies aimed at developing student
personal responsibility, independence and
self-esteem
Jo Shrimpton
Head of Year 9 at WGGS
• How to be an active and
engaging leader of tutors,
developing team cohesion along
with strategies aimed at
developing student personal
responsibility, independence and
self-esteem
Managing your team
• As a pastoral manager/head of year, your
principal responsibilities vary considerably
from school to school
• Identify all the duties/functions/tasks you
engaged in yesterday, in order to fulfil your
responsibilities
• As a HOY or Pastoral leader, you are a leader
of 2 teams. Your year group and your year
team of tutors. They are interdependent.
• What qualities do you hope to find in your
tutors?
• How is your role different from theirs, and
what can you do to ‘make pastoral care
effective’?
Establishing good practice
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Keep tutors informed.
Take minutes for year team meetings.
Visit forms regularly.
Get to know your students.
When initiating change ensure you combine a
good reason, with clear vision and an action
plan.
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Initials
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Promoting Team cohesion and
creativity
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Inter/ Intra form competitions
Share common values and principles
Students recognise ‘a united front’
Create opportunities for positive interaction
with your year group
• Welcome new ideas, however apparently
unworkable
• How to be an active and engaging
leader of tutors, developing team
cohesion along with strategies
aimed at developing student
personal responsibility,
independence and self-esteem
Scenario 1
1. Sarah is refusing to come to school, due to
relationship issues. She feels isolated, her
parents are concerned and they have phoned to
request a meeting with the Head of Year.
What strategies could you put in place?
Scenario 2
2. One of your tutors has not responded well to
the needs of their form. He is an experienced
HOD. He does not relate very well to the tutor
group, and has little enthusiasm for the
administrative chores of form tutor work.
How do you address this issue?
Reports
One report does not fit all!
Changing behaviour
Helpful tips
• Convey confidence that the
behaviour can/will change
• Seek to improve self-esteem
in the long term
• Mark and praise every
improvement, no matter
how small
Things to Avoid
• Insulting, belittling the
person
• Damaging self esteem
• A catalogue of additional or
previous misdemeanours
Thank you for listening.
Any questions?