Pastoral Care
Pastoral Care for Grade 9 and 10
All High School students are placed into Homeroom/Pastoral Care
classes. All Pastoral Care classes meet for 15 minutes each morning.
In addition, Grade 9 and 10 Pastoral Care classes meet for 80-minutes
each 8-day cycle. Each High School Pastoral Care class consists
of 21 students and 2 Pastoral Care teachers.
Pastoral Care is an essential time for students and teachers to
be together. During this time teachers serve as mentors and have
the opportunity to get to know their students outside of assessed,
academic subject areas. The Pastoral Care teacher also serves as
the immediate point of contact for general communication between
home and school.
A key focus of Pastoral Care classes is on building relationships
between teacher and students as well as with students and students.
Pastoral Care time allows teachers from different subject areas
to work together to plan lessons targeted at whole-child development.
This time enables teachers to get to know students from the whole-child
point of view.
Pastoral Care classes support students by teaching and reinforcing
Organization Skills and Time Management. Pastoral Care time also
allows for incidental teaching of highly important issues that
do not always fit neatly into other curricular areas, e.g. 9-11,
SARS, Asian Tsunami, study skills, community service projects,
time management and preparation of the Grade 10 Personal Project.
This time also shares the covering of Health and Social issues
with Physical Education/Health and other curricular areas.
Pastoral Care blocks are also used to accommodate assemblies and
thus preserve instructional time in other classes. Approximately
one out of every three Pastoral Care classes is used for Assembly
time.
Pastoral Care for Grade 11 and 12
In order to maximize subject instructional time, Grade 11 and
12 Pastoral Care will take place during the TOK instructional periods.
The primary focus of these sessions will be on career and college
planning and other topics relevant to young adults preparing to
begin their post secondary education. Periodically Grade 11 and
12 students will also participate in Pastoral Care lessons and
assemblies at the same time as Grade 9 and 10 students.
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