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SENIOR HANDBOOK for 2012

PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE - St Margaret Mary's College

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STUDENT WELFARE<br />

Student welfare embraces all areas of College life. It refers to the pastoral care of our students, the importance<br />

of self-discipline, and the adherence to expectations that allow our students the opportunity to reach their<br />

potential.<br />

The College has a number of policies and procedures that help guide the implementation of our pastoral care<br />

philosophy.<br />

Pastoral Care<br />

The motto of Saint Margaret Mary's College is Christus Veritas, Christ is Truth. In looking towards Christ <strong>for</strong> truth,<br />

we see what it means to be a Christian: to be honest, to act with integrity and to act justly. It is in Christ and<br />

through our actions that our College community offers support to our students. Students are encouraged to<br />

respect and accept the gifts we all bring to the community. Through our pastoral care <strong>for</strong> one another, the<br />

College hopes to lead each member to a better understanding of maturity, responsibility and accountability.<br />

Support Structures<br />

Relationships are a key source <strong>for</strong> our students to develop and grow. Within the College, there are various<br />

people available to assist the students on a day to day basis.<br />

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The Homeroom Teacher meets with the students twice a day and this student-teacher relationship is viewed as a<br />

central point of contact.<br />

A Pastoral Co-ordinator is assigned to each year level. This person is there to support the students with a range<br />

of organizational and personal issues.<br />

Administration members, Academic Co-ordinators and all teaching staff. (It is certainly preferable that discipline<br />

issues are dealt with as in<strong>for</strong>mally as possible as early as possible.)<br />

College Counsellors are available to students throughout the school day.<br />

Self-discipline and responsibility<br />

The College places a big emphasis on student responsibility and accountability <strong>for</strong> their actions. Actions have<br />

consequences and an acceptance of these consequences is a sign of the individual’s increasing maturity.<br />

Discipline is an essential part of growing into mature Christian adulthood.<br />

Saint Margaret Mary’s College recognises that sound discipline is based on positive guidelines and reflects<br />

compassion and respect <strong>for</strong> the dignity of each student. This allows us, the College community, to nurture each<br />

individual so that we encourage an atmosphere of close working harmony between the family and the College.<br />

Our aim is to enable the student to achieve self-discipline centred on Gospel values.<br />

College-Family Relationships<br />

‘This is what Yahweh asks of you; only this; to act justly,<br />

to love tenderly and to walk humbly with your God.’<br />

(Micah 6:8)<br />

Saint Margaret Mary's College views contact with parents as an essential part of our pastoral care. Keeping<br />

parents in<strong>for</strong>med of all matters concerned with their daughter (including the difficult issues as well as the good<br />

things) keeps lines of communication open. We appreciate the support we receive from parents who, in turn,<br />

keep us in<strong>for</strong>med of necessary in<strong>for</strong>mation that impacts on the way we can best cater <strong>for</strong> their daughter.<br />

St Margaret Mary’s College Senior Handbook <strong>for</strong> <strong>2012</strong> Page 5

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