Empowering pastoral excellence Rose Hardy, Headmistress of Habs Girls’ School, reflects on the decline in ‘free range children’
Never has it been more vital for schools to support their students pastorally in an increasingly complex world faced with multiple and evolving challenges. Today, it’s no longer enough simply to tick boxes to provide adequate pastoral provision, in fact schools are now charged with raising the bar in pastoral care and equipping the younger generation with a wealth of practical information, new connections, ideas and ‘real world’ best practice
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approaches to help them to progress and succeed in their future lives.
and confidence they will need as they develop and grow.
Pastoral care should seek to empower, inspire and energise students and sometimes that means removing fears around failure and tackling hardhitting issues affecting young people today. After all, raising children in sheltered captivity is not realistic, nor is it useful in helping them to build the strength of character, resilience
Driving that sense of pastoral excellence and the need to recognise and embrace a number of prominent topics surrounding wellbeing and the importance of teaching happiness is something we are really pushing at Habs Girls right now. In fact, we got the ball rolling early into the start of the new school year when we hosted our
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