Year Eight Pastoral Care

Staffing

The Year 8 Pastoral Team is led my Mr Naylor, the Year Coordinator.  He is line managed by Assistant Headteacher, Ms Doyle and supported by Ms Tracey Davids, who are the Behaviour Learning Mentors linked to this year group.

There are ten Form Tutors who care for Year 8 pupils.  These include Ms Miah (8C), Mr Pawlyczyk (8U), Ms Dewing (8M), Mr Hussain (8B), Ms Salu (8E), Ms Jackson (8R), Ms Mukherjee (8L), Ms Basha (8A), Mr Murrell (8N) and Ms Trojanowska (8D).

Support & Advice

The vision of the Year 9 team is to enable all pupils to acquire the knowledge and skills to develop as individuals while contributing to society and building enriching lives for themselves. Mr Naylor and his team will achieve this by supporting all pupils’ academic progress with a comprehensive pastoral care system which:

  • provides direct lines of communication between families and Cumberland School
  • develops literacy and social skills through a variety of engaging and memorable projects
  • includes a variety of individual and group mentoring opportunities
  • promotes learning achievements through the schools behaviour strategy
  • addresses barriers to success to raise students’ self esteem and aspirations.


To have an effective team that supports pupils, it is important that they work well together.  Mr Naylor is developing a collaborative culture within his pastoral team.  There is peer mentoring between form tutors, collaborative planning of registration activities and good practice is shared at Pastoral Team Meetings.  This way, Mr Naylor and his team are best place to play a key role in supporting subject teachers to enable as many pupils as possible to achieve their potential. 

Throughout this academic year they will make regular use of data to inform an integrated program of projects, interventions and mentoring that make a measurable impact on attainment.  There will be a focus on developing literacy, language and social skills for learning by implementing an integrated literacy program, making best use of outside organisations and partnerships.  Such projects include:

  • working with Ernst & Young to develop a Year 7 Courtyard within the school
  • the Beat Bullying Sports Mentoring Project
  • the Sustainability Project


Mr Naylor and his team will continue to establish and build relationships with parents and carers through - Parent meetings, Open Evening, Parents Evening, Introduction and Celebration Events and through the school’s Managed Learning Environment (Fronter).  In this way, they should be able to develop behaviour systems which enable and support all pupils to achieve their best.  Where intervention is required, the team will work closely with the Behaviour for Learning team to utilise strategies to address ongoing issues and individual incidents.

Advice & Support

Parents Evening for this year group this year will be on 23rd June 2011. This will follow Year 8’s internal exams which are sat between 2nd May 2011 and 7th May 2011