The Year 9 Pastoral Team is led by Mr Naylor, the Year Co-ordinator. He is line managed by Assistant Headteacher Ms Raines and supported by Tracey Davids, the Learning Mentor linked to this year group.

The ten Form Tutors who are responsible for Year 9 Pupils are: Ms Miah (9C), Mr Pawlyczk (9U), Mrs Hodgekiss (9M), Mr Hussain (9B), Mrs Salu (9E), Mrs Jackson (9R), Mrs Mukherjee (9L), Mrs Basha (9A), Mr Murrell (9N) and Mrs Artykova (9D).

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.

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 placed 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 functional and social skills for learning by making best use of outside organisations and partnerships.  Such projects include:

·         Food for Life Courtyard Garden

·         G&T pupil led Progress Residential

·         Peacock Gym

Mr Naylor and his team will continue to establish and build relationships with families through: parent meetings, Parents Evening, Introduction and Celebration Events and through the school’s Managed Learning Environment (Fronter).  In this way, they will be able to develop behaviour systems which enable and support all pupils to make progress.  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.

 

Parents Evening for this year group this year will be on 26th January 2012. This will be an opportunity to discuss and plan for the pupils’ option choices for GCSE with their families.

 

 

This page was last updated in October 2011