Pastoral Care
The warm family atmosphere at the heart of Chandlings ensures that each child is valued and cared for as an individual. This creates a happy environment in which children are well motivated and keen to learn. It also develops courteous and considerate children who each contribute their special strengths to the school.
Form teachers play a key role in attending to the pastoral welfare of the children in their care and build up a strong relationship with them based on trust and mutual respect. Valuable time is spent in form times and assemblies ensuring that all of the children feel that they and their opinions are valued, and promoting in them an awareness of and sensitivity towards the needs of others.
Throughout Chandlings, time is provided on the timetable for form teachers to share Circle Time and PSHCE (Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education) with their classes. These sessions allow for valuable interaction between the children, and between the children and their teacher to help them to develop positive behaviour, self-awareness and self-confidence.
The children quickly learn and appreciate the Chandlings Values, and also the Code of Behaviour which was drawn up by pupils of the school:
Chandlings Values
- Treat other people as you would like to be treated
- Forgive
- Share
- Be honest and live with integrity
- Listen to others
- Be kind and helpful
- Have modesty and humility
- Do your best to be your best
Chandlings Code of Conduct
At Chandlings we believe in (drawn up by the pupils):
- Caring for others
- Taking responsibility for ourselves
- Doing what is right
- Working hard and doing our best
- Being honest and polite
- Being a good friend
We believe in looking for the good in everyone, but we live in the real world and recognise that children do not always make the right choices about the way to behave.
To encourage positive behaviour ‘Golden Time’ (Pre-Prep) and ‘Privilege Time’ (Prep) sessions are provided when all of the children can choose ‘fun’ activities to do for 20 minutes in their classroom. However, children who are inconsiderate or unkind to others, or who behave in a manner that is inappropriate at any time in the week can be given a quiet warning by a teacher, and if they choose to ignore the warning and do not improve their behaviour then they will lose one of the minutes from their precious ‘golden’ or ‘privilege’ time. The children soon appreciate that they have a choice.