PASTORAL CARE

Each student is placed in a tutor group (S, H, E, R, or I) at the start of the year.  Students will normally stay with the same group and form tutor for five years.  Students meet with the tutor for registration once a day.  Each tutor works with a Head of House under the guidance of Mrs Melhuish, Assistant Headteacher, and Mrs Sizer, Key Stage Three Co-ordinator and Mr Buddle, Key Stage Four Co-ordinator.  The tutor is very much the first point of contact between school and home.   

Parents are asked to sign the student planner each week and to let us know if there are home or health circumstances, which might be affecting the progress of a student.  We are proud of our Home School Contract, written in collaboration with parents and students.  This states the expectations we have set for ourselves.  Two copies of this document are given to new students when they are allocated a place at the School, one to be signed and returned, the other retained for your own reference.

Each Form is allocated to one of four Houses named after important Norfolk people – Admiral Lord Nelson, the author Anna Sewell, the explorer Howard Carter and the nurse Edith Cavell.  Heads of House follow their students throughout their time at school and are the key pastoral leaders.  Mr Geoff Cleveland is Head of Sewell House, Mr Adrian Cooke Head of Cavell, Mr Simon Fairweather Head of Carter and Mr Drew Green Head of Nelson House.

Parents are welcome to telephone the school and make an appointment with the pastoral staff.  This will usually be with the tutor in the first instance or Head of House.

Regular information on progress is given to parents through termly and annual reports and parents' evenings.