Pastoral Conference 2024

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Wednesday 15 May 2024

9am - 3:30pm

I am pleased to invite you to the Annual Pastoral Conference at Cheadle Hulme School

As we all well know, the role of pastoral care has never been more crucial. As the array of approaches available to support young people continues to expand, this presents both opportunities and challenges for those of us tasked with guiding them in schools.

This Pastoral Conference aims to provide a platform for discussion and collaboration on navigating these challenges and providing practical strategies to help you and your teams.

Throughout the day, you can expect insightful talks from three renowned experts, each offering unique perspectives on support for young people, particularly around encouraging healthy relationships between pupils in schools, creating a foundation for mental wellbeing, and exploring the theme of emotional literacy and masculinity.

Moreover, the conference offers a valuable opportunity to connect with colleagues from other schools and I hope that you benefit as much from the opportunity to discuss the challenges, approaches, successes, and struggles of your roles as from the more structured parts of the day.

I hope our time together will provide you with many ideas, and prompt considerable reflection on what it means to be a young person today and how we can best provide the necessary conditions and support so that they can flourish in their lives at and beyond school.

Susan James, Deputy Head (Pupil Welfare)

Cheadle Hulme School

Speakers

/ Dr Emily Setty

Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey

Dr Emily Setty conducts research directly with young people to explore and understand their perspectives on and experiences of sex and relationships. She addresses topics relating to consent and online sexual behaviours, with the aim of identifying the risks and challenges that young people face and how to intervene effectively to reduce harm and to enable them to have and experience healthy and positive relationships.

She works with schools, police, local authorities, statutory and non-statutory children’s services, as well as national and local policy makers, to translate research findings and evidence into best practice. Currently, Dr Setty is working with Surrey Police, the Department for Education and a variety of commercial and third-sector organisations to devise, implement and evaluate preventative and remedial interventions to tackle harmful sexual behaviour in schools.

/ Dr Rangan Chatterjee

GP, Author and Host of the #1 Feel Better Live More Podcast

Dr. Chatterjee is regarded as one of the most influential medical doctors in the UK and wants to change how medicine will be practiced for years to come. His mission is to help 100 million people around the globe live better lives. He is Professor of Health Communication and Education at The University of Chester and hosts the most listened-to health podcast in the UK and Europe, ‘Feel Better, Live More’ – which was the 7th most listened to show on Apple podcasts for 2023 and is listened to and watched by over 8 million people every month.

Dr Chatterjee launched the Three Question Journal in January 2024. He is the author of 5 books, all of which have been Sunday Times Bestsellers in the UK and international bestsellers across the globe. His TED talk, How To Make Disease Disappear, has been viewed almost 6 million times.

He is the co-creator of the widely acclaimed RCGP accredited ‘Prescribing Lifestyle Course’ which has taught thousands of clinicians how to actually implement ‘lifestyle medicine’ with their patients in busy clinical practice. Dr Chatterjee is known for his ability to simplify complex health advice and find the root cause of people’s health problems - he highlighted his methods in the ground-breaking BBC One television show, Doctor in the House, which has been shown in over 70 countries around the world.

/ Mike Nicholson

Over twenty years’ experience in education

Mike Nicholson has over twenty years’ experience in education as an English teacher and middle leader. Having worked in schools from every Ofsted category he has a wide range of experience across the educational spectrum and early in his career began to develop a reputation for his ability to have an impact on boys and young men deemed ‘difficult’ and ‘challenging’. Recognition of his work with this group led to a nomination for a Pearson National Teaching Award.

Over the years Mike became increasingly interested in how our male pupils’ understanding of masculinity played such a pivotal role in their attitudes and behaviours. Researching, developing and piloting an early version of the Progressive Masculinity Program allowed him to see how so many of our young men put on a performance and a mask of what they think it means to be ‘a man’ gleaned from films, games, social media etc. The aim is not to dictate or impose ideas about masculinity but to remove the barriers so boys and young men can become the kind of men, friends, partners and fathers they truly want to be.

/ Programme

09.00 Registration and coffee

09.30 Welcome by Susan James, Deputy Head (Pupil Welfare), Cheadle Hulme School

09.45 Dr Emily Setty, (Re)framing harmful sexual behaviour and healthy relationships between young people in schools

10.50 Coffee break

11.10 Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Empowering young people: building strong foundations for mental wellbeing

12.15 Q&A and discussion session

13.15 Lunch

14.00 Mike Nicholson

“Boys don’t like to talk”: exploring the myths of emotional literacy and masculinity.

15.05 Follow up questions & concluding thoughts