Alban Education is delighted to be offering New to Being a Form Tutor for new and existing Form Tutors during Autumn 2024. This session will look at ideas for constructive tutor time and will include strategies which can be implemented to get the best from your form group.
Amy Stothard and Rich Davis will co-deliver this session from 4.00pm to 5.30pm at Sandringham School on the following date:
- Monday, 14th October 2024
Who is this course for?
This course is for ECTs and teachers who are new to a pastoral role.
What are the objectives or outcomes?
This course will support you in:
- Giving an overview of the importance of the pastoral system with regards to academic achievement and solidifying the home-school partnership.
- Discussing new ideas for forming good working relationships with parents and students.
- Assisting students in starting each day in the best way possible.
Meet the facilitator
Amy Stothard, Director of Learning, Music, Sandringham School
Amy Stothard is an experienced form tutor and is currently the Head of Music at Sandringham School. She has been working in education for 13 years and has worked with tutor groups and students with a wide range of needs. She is passionate about the impact that form tutors have on the day to day experience of students, their wellbeing as well as on their longer-term outcomes.
Richard Davis, Performance Director: Year 8 and Teacher of Mathematics
Rich is currently a Performance Director (Head of Year) at Sandringham with over 15 years of experience in a range of Pastoral roles in the school. He is currently working with his 4th cohort of students as Head of Year and has also been an Assistant Headteacher leading on behaviour and pastoral care for 2 years. Rich has worked with a number of tutor groups and is keen to take any opportunity to share his belief that it is one of the most important, and yet sometimes over looked, roles in a school.
What did others think?
“The course provided me with a great basis for approaching the important role of the form tutor. It was valuable to network with other NQTs who were using a range of strategies with the tutees. The course facilitators were honest, professional and personable which made discussing often hard to handle situations that may arise in a pastoral remit, easy. I have just recently been appointed as a head of year 7 and intend to use some of the strategies with my own tutor team in the near future.”