Wellfield Academy Student Services Personal Development Centre
Personal Development Centre
• PDC stands for Personal Development Centre
• It is staffed full time by a team of none teaching staff that have many years of combined experience working with young people and providing academic and emotional support in a variety of ways.
• The role of each staff member is to help provide a mixture of pastoral and practical support alongside sanctions and behaviour management.
Who’s Who?
PDC always work in close partnership with teachers, the Endeavour Learning Trust Executive Team, parents, carers and specialist agencies. ELT
• Mrs Fairhurst – Executive Director of Student Services
• Mrs Hammerton – Assistant Director of Student Services
• Miss Daly – Executive Pastoral Leader
Team
Personal Development Centre
Mr Carroll R Aindow
Miss Horsfield
Mrs Tuffs
Assistant Headteacher: Behaviour and Culture
Pastoral Behaviour Manager: Campbell
Pastoral Behaviour Manager: MacArthur
Pastoral Behaviour Manager: Sharman
Mrs Booth
Attendance Officer
Family Support Worker and Safeguarding Manager
Miss Merone
PDC Administration Assistant
Miss Calvert
What does PDC do?
• Responds to concerns about behaviour and help to put strategies in place
• Help implement the behaviour policy
• Work on attendance concerns
• Support both families and students as needed
• Help prepare students for next steps – transition in year 7 and further study in year 11
• Celebrate success and support when things don’t go quite right.
• Get to know you as an individual
What does PDC do?
• Work with outside agencies to help support families
• Investigate incidents as they occur
• Feedback to families to help celebrate the positive and tell them about your day when it hasn’t gone to plan
• Organise groups and events to help motivate students
• Provide emotional help and guidance
Strategies to Support
• Staff in PDC will try a range of strategies to help support students in a way that is personal to them.
• These would include:
• Behaviour report
• Academic engagement report
• Coaching and achievable targets
• Regular check ins during the day
• Timetabled motivation meetings
• Checks in lesson
• Home school communication
Could I go to PDC if?
You should go to PDC for support if arranged with your PBM or directed by a member of staff. Reasons you may need to seek support may be:
• If someone has been unkind to you
• To discuss and ask for clarification on a detention
• Incorrect uniform
• To share a success that has happened during the day
• To chat to a member of staff about an issue that you need support with
• To report something that you have seen happen that you feel needs investigating.
Academic & Behaviour Support
• At Wellfield there are three houses and each has a House Progress Leader (HPL) that leads the monitoring of students in their house
• On a weekly basis the House Progress Leader and the Personal Development Centre meet to discuss any concerns that they have and look at putting strategies and support in place.
House Progress Leaders and Tutors
Miss Snowden
Mr Kelly
Mrs Cadman
Miss Pennington
Mr Beales
Mrs Whiteside
Mr Evans
Miss Taylor
Mr Winrow
Mrs Brook
Mrs Starbuck
Miss Clare
Miss Hancox
Miss Stevenson
Mrs Taylor
Miss A Scott Miss L Cattanach Mr L WestBehaviour in Class
There may be situations where the choices you make don’t meet our school standards. When these situations occur then your teachers will implement the behaviour policy.
• Behaviour warning: This is your chance to modify the choice you have made.
• Removal: If things do not improve then the teacher will ring for a removal from lesson.
• PDC will come to collect and will take you to work in ILR.
• During this time PDC staff will discuss what has happened to make sure that it doesn’t happen again
Behaviour
In the situations that you get removed it is important to staff in PDC for you to take responsibility for your actions.
To do this we will have a conversation about:
❑What happened ?
❑Why was the choice made?
❑What can we do differently in the future?
❑Do you take accountability for your actions?
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Behaviour
• Once you have been removed you will work in our Isolated Learning Room (ILR) for the remainder of the lesson.
• Whilst in ILR you will continue to work on the task that you were given in lesson. At the end of the lesson there is an expectation that you will take this work back to your teacher.
• Should a removal happen twice in a day then you will work in Internal Exclusion.
• Whilst in Internal Exclusion, you will remain in there for the equivalent of a full school day (5 lessons). This also means that breaks and lunches are spent out of circulation from the main school as well.
Uniform Essentials
• Smartness and high standards of appearance are expected at all times.
• Our school uniform is important to us. It is one way in which we identify ourselves as a school family and plays a valuable role in contributing to the ethos, setting an appropriate tone and instilling pride in our school.
• Should there ever be a situation where you don’t have any uniform or refuse to wear it correctly, you would be expected to work with PDC until it meets our school rules and standards.
