Pastoral Care

All High School students are placed into Homeroom/Pastoral Care classes, which meet regularly.

Pastoral Care is an essential time for students and teachers, providing time for teachers to serve as mentors and have the opportunity to get to know their students outside of academic classes. A key focus of Pastoral Care classes is on building relationships between teachers and students as well as between students.

Pastoral Care classes support students by teaching and reinforcing organization skills and time management. Pastoral Care time also allows for incidental teaching of highly important issues that do not always fit neatly into other curricular areas, e.g. Asian Tsunami, study skills, community service projects, and preparation of the Grade 10 Personal Project. This time also shares the covering of Health and Social issues with Physical Education/Health and other curricular areas.

In Grade 11 and 12, the primary focus of these sessions is on career and college planning and other topics relevant to young adults preparing to begin their post secondary education.