Senior Pastoral Care

Moorland School is a small family day and boarding school who select children based upon their behaviour and not upon their academic abilities. This strong behavioral policy reinforced by the schools zero tolerance to any form of bullying, ensures that children are nurtured and educated in happiness, which additionally promotes our young students social and emotional confidences.

Our parents have the direct work emails of each of their child’s subject teachers, including every member of the SLT and Headteacher. Boarding children’s parents also have the direct email addresses of their Boarding Mangers.

The school prioritises children’s happiness and wellbeing above all else, and most importantly of all is that all of our staff actually like children, which strangely enough is not always the case in other educational establishments.

The Headteacher can be contacted on his personal mobile phone outside of school hours should any parents have immediate pastoral or academic concerns.

The school has two Pastoral and Welfare Teams which will meet weekly to discuss the children, and identify early any causes for concern, along with implementing any support or intervention plans thus ensuring pupil happiness, and this may include parental involvement.

The Senior Pastoral and Welfare Team is led by Mrs Maria McConnell who is operationally responsible for managing children’s happiness within the senior school.

Mrs McConnell, will also be supported at these pastoral meetings by Mrs Sarah Booth (SENDCo), Ms Hayley Mosscrop and Mr Robert Lyon. Assistant Headteacher’s and or the Headteacher, Mr Harrison may also attend these meetings should significant concerns be identified.

Please note that Mrs Deborah Frost, Assistant Headteacher is also the school’s Designated Safeguarding Officer, (DSL). Please refer to our anti-bullying, safeguarding and behaviour management policies which are embedded within the policy section of this website.

As a school and as a family community we are extremely fortunate to have lovely students and families, and as such we place far more emphasis on positive rewards and praise, this being said our joint responsibility with parents is to raise decent, caring and warm children, and therefore we would respectably ask our parents to also familiarise themselves fully with the school’s Amber and Red Sanctions, which will be enforced fairly, reasonably and with common sense.

The school actively blurs the lines between home and school, and the conduct of your child outside of the school, including their social media views and opinions are subjected to being checked by the school’s family ethos, and as such full parental support is requested and expected.

Happy confident children equates to happy and confident parents, which in turn ensures that the school has a fully supported and happy staff and management team.