Pastoral Care & its Leadership

• Do you need guidance on how to lead pastoral teams?
• Do you require tools for evaluating the current provision?
• Do you need help to develop systems, policies, procedures and sharing good practice?

This course offers practical advice to enhance your effectiveness in pastoral leadership. From exploring different leadership techniques to working through communication strategies, this training provides clear direction to support the leading of any pastoral team.

Providing the tools to review current provision, the course promotes effective action planning to deal with common problems. There is advice on developing and planning a pastoral curriculum, systems, policies and procedures.

This course is suitable for all pastoral leaders in schools and colleges, including Senior Pastoral Leads, Heads of Year, Heads of House, Wellbeing Leads, Mental Health Leads, Heads of PSHE and Heads of Key Stage/Phase.

Top Priority: Pastoral Care & Pupil Personal Development

ISI already inspect pupil personal development as part of the Education Quality Inspection (EQI), and in 2019 the Ofsted inspection framework was modified to include a separate judgement of ‘personal development’ for the first time.

According to Ofsted, this is to acknowledge the importance of “pupils’ wider personal development and their opportunities to grow as active, healthy and engaged citizens.”

For most schools this good news. It allows Ofsted to recognise schools’ efforts to look after pupils’ broader development and prepare them for life outside of education.

Course Outline

Building Pastoral Leadership

• Building your leadership technique portfolio from debunking the ‘Great Man’ myth to the advantages and disadvantages of transactional and transformational leadership
• Building an accountable team

Making the paperwork work for you

• Own the plan and see the impact
• Lose the ego – develop the confidence to build structures and systems that run without you.

Presenter Profile

Dr Jo Trevenna has over 20 years' experience of educational leadership from early years to post-graduate level. Her ongoing academic interests centre on Leadership and EDI.

Feedback from this course

I feel particularly inspired. Unlike many courses, this felt achievable.
Alison Tanner, Year 5/6 Teacher, Cameley Primary School

Cost: £150 per delegate

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