Pastoral Care / Wellbeing

The College’s Pastoral Care is designed to promote a positive sense of self and wellbeing for our students, through fostering a positive learner profile, emotional resilience, hope, and the ability to form meaningful connections.

Along with this, Pedare Christian College equips its students with Christian values and principles, and the skills to be responsible digital citizens.

Student wellbeing is at the forefront of everything we do. Our focus on wellbeing is evident in our learning environments, which include features such as adaptable furniture, outdoor play areas, and quiet spaces for reflection. Our enrichment programs, extensive extracurricular options, student leadership opportunities, community service initiatives, and buddy classes all contribute to promoting wellbeing.

Additionally, our teaching and learning programs prioritise wellbeing through the use of high impact teaching strategies, a Reconciliation Action Plan, personalised differentiation, diverse learning, and design thinking. Our students are held to high standards of behaviour and are supported by a dedicated team of educators who model these expectations.

Wellbeing underpins all learning and permeates every aspect of Pedare. It is essential for student engagement and academic and social development. Our approach to student wellbeing is a holistic one and guided by our Christian values.

Specially designed pastoral care structures and programmes nurture and support our students through the social, emotional, cognitive and physical growth challenges that accompany adolescence and a holistic, tailored strength-based approach fosters:

• Self-efficacy
• Resilience and perseverance
• A sense of self and belonging
• Optimism and courage
• Independence and sociability
• Adaptability
• Integrity
• Gratitude
• Self-regulation
• Empathy and compassion

The College also engages psychologists and key experts throughout the year to ensure that the topics explored are grounded in evidence-based research.

Pedare is committed to providing a safe environment where each child is valued and nurtured. Our wellbeing programme aims to develop students’ potential and promote their social, emotional and behavioural wellbeing. Various resources and outside agencies support the learning at all levels.

We seek to foster respect for oneself and others, self-discipline, self-control and cooperation with, and encouragement of others. This promotes a safe environment that is conducive to learning, personal growth and positive self-worth.

Each sub school has a set of behavioural expectations specifically developed to be age appropriate for students and designed to reflect our College core values, which are:

• Acceptance & Understanding
• Commitment
• Community
• Compassion
• Excellence
• Faith
• Integrity
• Knowledge
• Pride
• Self Discipline
• Self Worth
• Service.

These expectations ensure responsible behaviours are modelled and explicitly taught in order to create a safe, respectful environment.