Building resilience in our young people is seen as a cornerstone of our approach to supporting students’ holistic development. In teaching and using the skills of resilience we aim to increase the life chances and aspiration of the students within our school and community.
Traditionally the school has always had a strong pastoral leaning to resilience work and over the years has participated in the UK Resilience and the Secondary SEAL (social and emotional aspects of learning) programmes, often delivering these in radical formats through both curriculum and pastoral means.
The executive head of the school federation, Neil Wilson, identified that resiliency and communication were key to school and student development. Yet this had to be sharper in its focus and more universally understood and practised in school and at home.
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