Pastoral Care

We follow a DfE accredited programme called Thrive and our safeguarding lead is a licenced practitioner. At the heart of our approach is a culture of care, kindness and compassion.

Your child spends the first 25 minutes of their day with their tutor following a programme of activities designed to help them thrive in school. They also have an assembly once a week led by their head of year. Other days are themed. For example, we have well-being Wednesday when students use an interactive tool to gauge how things are going and the Friday Debate when they discuss a topic of national or international importance. A highlight of each term is our success assemblies when we celebrate all the wonderful things our students have done. Students are also in houses and compete in competitions and charity events spread throughout the year. 

The pastoral structure is led by two assistant principals, one for safeguarding and behaviour respectively. We also have an operational safeguarding lead, mental health lead, head of re-engagement, re-engagement officer, anti-bullying officer, head of behaviour systems and medical officer, as well as plenty of counsellors and mentors who come to school on a scheduled basis. Casterton is an accredited anti-bullying school by the UK Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA).

Personal development is led by four personal development directors for personal, social and health education, democracy, leadership and participation, identity, culture and community and career, aspirations and overcoming disadvantage. They foster a strong sense of community, responsibility, ambition and humanity for our students, so they will become good citizens in later life.

Finally, we mustn't forget Radar, our fully trained therapy dog!

Meet our Pastoral team.

Assistant Principals

Head's of Year

Mr Astles Y7

Miss Nichols Y8

Mr Perry Y9

Mrs James Y10

Mrs Henriet Y11

The heart of the pastoral structure is student services, which also incorporates our medical room. We don't call our students 'clients' or customers because they are people, not recipients of a business transaction. Year heads follow their year group through our school so that good relationships are established with students and their parents. They also lead assemblies and our tutorial programme.

Student Services

SEMH (Social, Emotional, Mental Health)