Pastoral Care & Student Well-being

Putting students first in order to remove barriers to learning is the key responsibility of all staff at ADIS.

Through our commitment to holistic pastoral care, ADIS ensures that every student: achieves aspirational goals; can make decisions which lead to a healthy lifestyle; and can make positive contributions through active involvement in their learning and in the school and wider community.

At ADIS, what do we mean by ‘pastoral care’?

  • It means promoting students’ personal and academic development in everything we do.

  • Quality pastoral care at ADIS focuses on the whole student (personal, social, and academic) and engages all members of our learning community as providers of pastoral care.

  • It is inextricably linked with teaching and learning and the structural organization of the school – promoting students’ personal and social development and fostering positive attitudes: through the quality of teaching and learning; through the nature of relationships amongst students, teachers and adults other than their class teachers; through arrangements for monitoring students’ overall progress (personal, social, and academic); and through extra-curricular activities and the school’s vision and core values.

  • It is policy and practices fully integrated throughout the learning community to effectively meet the developmental and social well-being and academic needs of students and staff, and to encourage student choice, voice and empowerment.