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Pastoral Care

We all know that we are best able to learn and more inclined to try new things when we are happy. Broomfield’s pastoral care provision aims to create an environment where children feel safe and secure, have fun things to do and are able to tell us if anything is upsetting them. This is paramount to helping our pupils enjoy life and achieve academic success.

Broomfield is dedicated to making sure this fundamental building block to learning is in place. All staff work with the children to help them identify the things that give them joy and to focus on these as a way of fostering a positive and optimistic attitude to life. Our PSHE curriculum and assemblies offer a wider understanding of the world around us and the children’s place within it. We encourage children to appreciate their own individual skills and attributes as well as those of their peers. We get them directly involved in creating a strong sense of community in Broomfield through our Pupil Council and in a variety of activities that bring children together across the year groups.

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Our PSHE curriculum, focusing on health and wellbeing, is designed to give our pupils the knowledge, skills and understanding to lead positive and happy lives as well as developing their independence and celebrating their individuality. We explore ideas about how to be comfortable in our own skin, to appreciate our unique strengths and tackle areas we want to develop, to be fit and healthy and to be able to imagine our futures by identifying our dreams and goals. These concepts are continuously reinforced through our assemblies.

Our Core Values

Our core values are communicated throughout school in a number of practical ways. We have high expectations for behaviour at Broomfield and reward positive conduct at every opportunity, within agreed procedures to achieve consistency and fairness.

In recognition of the attitudes that help make school a happy and supportive place, each half term we choose a child from each year to receive the Headteacher’s Award. This is given to children who consistently reflect the Broomfield values; Curiosity, Creativity, Courage and Kindness. The award is highly sought-after and the winners enjoy tea with the Head, with delicious cakes baked by our Chef.

On Wednesdays and Fridays in assembly we come together and celebrate our achievements as a ‘family’, recognising the full breadth of success within school, the classroom and in external clubs and competitions.

Understanding our Children

Our proactive measures for pupil wellbeing include a variety of mechanisms to canvass children’s views, experiences and feelings. A key one for us is the termly Happiness Survey, in which we explicitly seek to understand if there are things we can do to help our children feel happy and confident in school and in their friendships. We have a range of strategies for children to share their worries and a buddy system for new pupils.

For children going through social or emotional challenges, we have systems in place to offer support and, within our staff, we have fully trained Emotional Literacy Support Assistants as well as a certified Youth Mental Health First Aider. LEGO Club can be a terrific vehicle for children feeling less confident socially to build up their social skills on a joint project.

House System and Vertical Integration Opportunities

Our house system helps reinforce the feeling of belonging as well as enabling the children to mix with others across the year groups. Children from Year 2 upwards join either Mead, Palmer or Rose House which are named after previous Headteachers.

Each house has a charity that it supports and they hold cake sales and raffles in order to raise money. The system also allows the children to play more competitive sports and compete in academic contests such as our annual Spelling Bee Competition and Broomfield’s General Knowledge Challenge.

Leadership, Collaboration and Entrepreneurship

In Year 6 pupils are given roles and responsibilities to lead areas of school life, such as Head Boy and Girl, House and Sports Captains.

Our Pupil Council offers opportunities for children in Years 3-5 to represent their house and make recommendations for how we can improve the Broomfield experience.

In Year 4 the class runs an enterprise project where the emphasis is for the children to learn the value of teamwork. They make and sell elderflower cordial for a stall at Kew Fete managing the financing, marketing and logistics, soon recognising they can achieve more together than by working alone. Their reward is to spend the profits of selling elderflower on something special that they can all enjoy together.

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