STUDENTS SUPPORTS

Form Teacher & Year Head

Pastoral Care

Guidance & Counselling

SPHE 

Ceangail & Cinnirí

Resource & Learning Support

Homework and After School Study

Positive Behaviour

​Critical Incident Supports

PASTORAL CARE IN SALESIAN COLLEGE 

The principal aim of the pastoral care programme at Salesian College is to nurture, affirm, challenge and inspire the students to be young adults of the highest integrity and confidence who use their spiritual, intellectual, social and physical gifts for themselves and the communities in which they live.

The school operates a Year Head and Class Tutor/Form Teacher system. Students meet as a class with their Form Teacher each morning. The class roll is taken and there is the opportunity for student and teacher to raise issues of concern. The Form Teacher is often the first point of contact between students, parents/guardians and the school. While the Form Teacher works with a ‘class group’ the role of the Year Head is to liaise with the whole year and with the wider school community. 

Each year, we want to ensure that our incoming students have the best possible start to life in their new school. This is done by: 

  • Preparing for the easy transition of students into the secondary school. 
  • Ensuring that each student is suitably placed in his class. 
  • Liaising with each Form Teaher to enquire of each student’s progress. 
  • Dealing with occasions of bullying should they occur. 
  • Providing for student support through the Pastoral Care Team which is made up of the Principal (who is also the Designated Liaison Person for reporting issues following the Child Protection Guidelines), the Deputy Principal, the Guidance Counsellor, the School Chaplain, the Coordinator of Special Educational Needs, one SPHE teacher, one Resource teacher and one RE teacher. In addition to the Pastoral Care Team, the entire school staff and the Ceangail & Cinnirí teams also provide support and guidance to incoming First Year students.
  • Monitoring discipline and ensuring a courteous and respectful atmosphere among the pupils. 
  • Meeting with parents should the necessity arise. 
  • Meeting with teachers and Principals of local primary schools prior to entering our school. We aim is to have the experience of pupils in Salesian College an enriching and happy one, where the boy who enters will leave as a man who has benefited from his life at the college.



Parental/Guardian Support 
Education is viewed as a joint effort between student, parent/guardian and the school. Contact with parents/guardians is maintained through parent/teacher meetings and by means of formal reports issued twice yearly.  Parents are welcome to meet any teacher by prior arrangement.  The Student Journal is used as a means of ongoing communication.