Pastoral Care
Pastoral care is valued highly at Birkdale and is an important part of our commitment to our core values, offering a warm, caring and supportive environment. Crucial to any school are the friendly staff, pupil and parent relationships.
Pupils are aware that they have easy access to their form tutors through daily contact at registration which allows close relationships between tutor and pupil to develop. This is further supported by the relevant Head of Section. These are:
- Head of Lower School -Mrs Victoria Stolz
- Head of Middle School -Mr Stephen Kenyon
- Heads of Sixth Form -Mrs Helen Parsons and Mr Keith Brook.
Each look after the welfare of the pupils.Tutors take a keen interest in the curricular and extra curricular progress of their tutees. Problems are dealt with quickly and effectively in a caring and supportive way.
The school has the benefit of a Chaplain, Mr John Allen, with whom pupils can have a confidential discussion. We also have a number of clubs regarding the Christian Union. Click here to see more about clubs.
The Chaplain works alongside form tutors and pastoral Heads of Section to ensure that pupils are fully integrated into the school community.
Prayers (assembly) each day are opportunities for values to be shared and reinforced, and we work hard to make sure those values are rooted in the teachings of the Bible. Occasionally we celebrate major Christian festivals together as a school community, such as Harvest or Christmas. We are welcoming increasing numbers of parents to our Christmas Carol service year on year, and we would like to see this continue to grow.
We believe that such care is the key to our pupils becoming successful, balanced and well-rounded young adults. Our aim when pupils leave Birkdale is for each to have developed their potential as individuals, to have grown in confidence, maturity and wisdom and to be better equipped to face life beyond school as independent young people.
