PASTORAL CARE

By interweaving traditional care with scientific, data driven tracking we have developed a highly tuned pastoral care provision that works for each individual.

This coherent, all-encompassing system is called WellWorks – a latticework of care that is sufficiently sophisticated that no child can slip through.

At the heart of Repton School is the Boarding House, where much of the WellWorks system is grounded. The sense of belonging, essential if the child is to gain the maximum from the Repton experience, is nurtured here. This is reinforced not only by the House Parents, House Tutors and Matron but also by the fact that we keep each House smaller in number than most schools and take all three daily meals in the warm familiarity of the House dining room.

Objectives

For Pupils

To continue to create a consistent, inclusive, evolving and age-appropriate framework of care and encouragement which supports the individual child and in which they are known, safe, happy and valued.

To maintain a first-class, co-educational, modern boarding ethos alongside a fully integrated day pupil experience.

To link respect for each other to respect for the environment.

To prepare our pupils to be global citizens through awareness of and engagement with the important issues of our time, of which equality, diversity and inclusion is an integral part.

To employ sophisticated methods and models of pastoral assessment to sit alongside the very best professional guidance and parental insight in the understanding and support of each individual child.

To provide an ever improving quality of catering that supports growth and development, enhancing the highly-valued House dining experience.

For Staff

To establish a culture of openness, organisation and accountability that extends from the Governing Body and the Executive across all management structures of the school.

To offer greater career progression and create a teacher training programme within the Repton Family of Schools that allows international movement, career opportunities and quality assurance.

To attract staff of the highest quality, sometimes from outside the sector, and provide them too with high calibre pastoral care.

Plans To Deliver On Objectives

Create an 11th Boarding House in order to allow the phased refurbishment of the ten Houses which will be wellbeing-centred and space-conscious for each age cohort. Upgrade the catering to be increasingly health driven and satisfying. Put in place protocols to maintain a healthy work/life balance for pupils and staff in the pursuit of the wellbeing of the whole community.

Decanting House Allowing Refurbishment Of Our Houses

Recent events have highlighted the fragility of energy markets. We are taking significant steps to radically improve our energy efficiency at all levels.

As we refurbish our ten Boarding Houses one by one, space is required for the whole House community to move into while the substantial works are completed. This refurbishment will entail not simply modernisation, but a ‘root and branch’ move to thermal efficiency, therefore there is a requirement to build a ‘Decanting House’. Throughout Repton the programme of enhanced energy efficiency is underway.