Student Welfare
At Reddish Vale Technology College, the welfare of the students is a top priority. As such the college offers a number of services to support students with whatever problems they may be facing.
The College recognises that all our students are different and need different types of support and guidance at different times. The services the college offers are flexible to be the best for each individual student.
Services that the school offers include:
Education Welfare Officers:
Lorraine Goulson uses a range of methods, including home visits, to provide support to pupils who are struggling with attendance at College.
Educational Psychologist:
These trained specialists provide support pupils with learning and/or behavioural difficulties.
Relate Counsellor:
Relate provides support to pupils where relationships between adults at home or in the family breakdown.
Beacon Counsellor:
The Beacon Counselling services provides confidential support for pupils.
Cloisters:
This is the College's learning support unit, aiming to improve behaviour and attendance. Cloisters will support pupils in class when necessary.
Learning Mentor:
The College has three Learning Mentors who support pupils helping to discover the barriers that are stopping individual pupils from learning and help the pupils remove these barriers.
Making It Back (MiB):
This service is to provide drugs advice (including smoking and alcohol) to pupils. They can offer counselling and help explain the legal situation.
Connexions:
Pupils in Years 9, 10 and 11 can access careers advice, information and guidance, through the College's advisor, Simone Callaghan. Interviews can be requested via form tutors or by visiting the Connexions room in the College's library.
Links to useful websites
Natioanl Connexions web site
Local Connexions web site
Restorative Justice
The College is now adopting a 'restorative justice' approach-and is one of only a handful of schools in the Country to be doing so.
What this approach means is that the pupils involved in a incident at school, for example bullying, will be brought together by a trained person to talk about what happened and how it made them feel. The aim is to make pupils realise how their actions affect other pupils.