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Building a collaborative pastoral structure and team from scratch (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Pastoral Champions newsletter where we share pastoral research, resources and recordings from the We Are In Beta community.This is a guest post by Pastoral Leader and Maths Teacher, Matthew Wood. If you’d like to write for us, head to the bottom of this post.“What have you tried so far, what has worked, and what hasn’t?”Have you been asked a question like this in an inclusion review or an exclusion panel meeting?In my experience, schools will have done masses. You’ve worked hard.
Parent data (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Pastoral Champions newsletter where we share pastoral research, resources and recordings from the We Are In Beta community.This is a guest post by Pastoral Leader and Maths Teacher, Matthew Wood. If you’d like to write for us, head to the bottom of this post.Have you seen the film ‘Gladiator’? There’s a pivotal piece of advice given to the main character: “Win the crowd, and you’ll win your freedom.”Beyond giving a movie night recommendation, it got me thinking about our work in s
Behaviour culture (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Pastoral Champions newsletter where we share pastoral research, resources and recordings from the We Are In Beta community.This is a guest post by Pastoral Leader and Maths Teacher, Matthew Wood. If you’d like to write for us, head to the bottom of this post.What came first… the right culture or the right behaviour?Emma Turner, now Deputy Headteacher at Oak Wood School, Hillingdon, has spent years leading Behaviour and Pastoral work across the school. Their story is inspiring, and
Sexual harassment: 4 ways to tackle it and make schools safer. (opens the original)
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Welcome back to the Pastoral Champions newsletter where we share pastoral research, resources and recordings from the We Are In Beta community.This is a guest post by Pastoral Leader and Maths Teacher, Matthew Wood. If you’d like to write for us, head to the bottom of this post.Sexual harassment in schools isn’t something to tiptoe around and hope it will quietly resolve itself.The voices and content influencing our pupils’ views on gender, relationships and sexuality certainly aren’t ‘tiptoe-ee
Pastoral highlights from 2025/26: thank you for making it so special (opens the original)
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As the academic year draws to a close, we want to say a massive ‘well done’ and ‘thank you’.Well done for getting through another tricky year. Thank you for doing everything you can for your students. And each other inside the Pastoral Champions Community inside We Are In Beta.In this post we want to celebrate:some of our collective pastoral achievementsthe acts of kindness you show each other inside the Pastoral Champions Communityexamples where members (and specific schools) have gone above an
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