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‘BACK TO SCHOOL’

Grade 8 – Tuesday 24 September 2019

Grade 8 Advisors

• Joao Barroca
• Chair of Science
• Lucia Franjo-Garcia
• Spanish and PSHEE teacher
• Catherine Stockall
• Director of Music

The Marymount London Pastoral System

• At Marymount who we are teaching is as important as what we are

teaching.

• We nurture and celebrate each individual and foster an awareness and

appreciation of the unique needs and gifts of others.

• Our community is purposefully small; a positive relationship among all

community members is at the heart of all we do.

• The social-emotional development of our girls—attention to her sense of

self, her personality, her relationships—guides our pastoral care.

• All Faculty and Staff share a pastoral responsibility to know and

appreciate each girl as an individual.

Holistic Marymount London Pastoral System

• Headmistress
• Deputy Heads & Assistant Headmistress
• Head of Pastoral Life
• Diploma Heads of Year
• Middle School Coordinator
• Designated Safeguarding Lead
• Spiritual Life Coordinator
• Life Coach
• School Nurse
• Advisors
• Teaching Faculty

The Central Role of the Advisor

• Advisor supports the growth of each student; pastoral, spiritual and

academic

• Growth scaffolded through the Marymount Advisor Curriculum
• Each student is allocated to an Advisor group
• Small group of students from the Grade
• 30 minutes at least four times a week with their Advisor
• Advisor will partner closely together with you throughout

the school year to ensure that your daughter experiences success and thrives as a Marymount student

• Should be a first port of call for queries and to support you in finding

answers to these

• Bridge between students and teachers to support academic success

The Advisor Curriculum

• Curriculum designed to meet the

social, emotional, spiritual and mental needs of students, as well as scaffold their approaches to learning (ATL) skills

• Broad focus topics for each week

across the school

• Individually tailored to the needs
• f the Grade and age of students

Semester 1 example focus topics

• Team building
• Growth mindset
• Nutrition Week
• ICT literacy skills
• Kindness week
• Fostering a personal relationship

with God

The Advisor Curriculum

For example: Week 5 & 6 – Monday 30 – 11 October: Growth Mindset

• Discussions about perseverance, failing well, bouncing back after

failure, maintaining positive mental health, developing positive self- esteem; affective skills such as perfectionism, managing self-talk, resilience, self-motivation, emotional management or perseverance.

• Self-esteem Team Assembly and workshops 30/09/19
• Whole school Assembly introduction to the big key ideas surrounding

self-esteem and mental health

• Date of note: Friday 11 October – International Day of the Girl Child

Example Advisor Lessons

A look to the Semester ahead

A look to the Semester ahead

• September 25th to 28th RSHM Leadership Conference
• October 4th MS Activities begin
• October 9th and 10th Urinetown Auditions
• October 31st Halloween Celebrations
• November 1st All Saints Mass at 11.30am
• November 6-9: ISSA Football (Portugal)
• November 12th Parent Teacher Conference
• November 13th All Grades off timetable - Interdisciplinary Excursions Day
• November 21st Grade 8 Guided Prayer
• November 22nd Thanksgiving Liturgy and House Games / Lunch
• December 10th Lessons and Carols
• December 11th STEAM Day
• December 12th Christmas Fair
• December 13th Christmas Liturgy, Classes end at 12

A ‘typical’ Marymount week

• Two week cycle
• 9 lessons a day
• 45 minute lessons + 30 minute advisor lesson
• Extra-curricular Opportunities
• Educational Visits
• House Events
• Guest Speakers
• Middle School Assembly
• Whole School Assembly
• Mass

Enriching Fulfilling

Stimulating

Supporting academic success

• Balance of work and play
• IB Learner Profile: creating a whole person
• Homework Schedule

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