SENIOR HANDBOOK for 2012
PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE - St Margaret Mary's College
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