PASTORAL CARE AND STUDENT WELLBEING

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YARRA VALLEY GRAMMAR AIMS TO INSTILL A SENSE OF INDEPENDENCE AND RESILIENCE
IN EACH STUDENT.

Each student’s journey includes academic learning, as well as considerable personal and emotional growth. Caring, experienced teaching and support staff guide students on their individual journeys, encouraging them to achieve success and to bounce back from disappointment.

At all levels, students develop relationships with specific teachers who can monitor their progress:
  • In Junior School, the Classroom Teacher is primarily responsible for the care and nurture of each student
  • Year 7 is a transitional year so students are located in a homeroom, with a Tutor, while having specialist teachers for some subjects
  • In Years 8 – 12, each student meets daily with their Tutor, who is usually one of their subject teachers.
Year Level Co-ordinators and Heads of School provide additional care and support for students as required.

Effective pastoral care is the result of an education partnership between home and School. Parents are encouraged to contact Class Teachers or Tutors when they believe it is necessary. Regular evenings are arranged, at which parents may meet staff members, discuss curriculum matters, and develop close relationships between the family and the School.

Students also have access to personal counselling with the Student Counsellor, who is a School Psychologist and provides extra support when needed. Yarra Valley Grammar also provides:
  • Specialist personal, education, subject choice and career counselling for students, relevant to their individual circumstances and needs
  • A well equipped careers library
  • Parent seminars each year on a variety of contemporary issues relevant to young people.
Furthermore students are encouraged to develop increasing personal responsibility throughout their School lives, and leadership roles are offered to students at all levels. Looking after each other is important, and a group of senior students is trained each year as ‘supportive friends’. These students make a valuable and integral contribution to Yarra Valley Grammar’s pastoral care program.