Pastoral Care

Pastoral care is a central priority for us at Lulworth & Winfrith. A high percentage of our pupils are from service families and we offer lots of support and provision to help the children deal with some of the challenges that this can pose. Those children who are not service pupils also benefit from our enhanced pastoral offer. More details of our work can discussed by speaking to a member of the Senior Leadership Team.

Deployment Notification Form

If a parent or carer is away, or due to go away, please email the school office (lwps.office@coastalpartnership.co.uk) to notify the school so that we can support your child. This includes anyone who is away for more than a couple of days - those on short courses, people regularly working away and returning at weekends, or those going on longer deployments. 

Mental Health

Our school prioritises supporting children's mental health, and acknowledging the particular demands that service life can place on this. We have a Designated Senior Mental Health Lead (DSMHL), our SENCO, Natasha Hardy, who has specific training in this area. We also have a number of core pastoral staff trained in Emotional Literacy Support (ELSA) to support mental health.

This year, we are enhancing our Mental Health offer by embarking on the Stormbreak journey. To find out more information, click the link below.

Play, Move, Mental health and stormbreak | stormbreak CIO

Service Children's Support

We know Service Children are not a 'single group' with identical needs or experiences - and always prioritise the individual child. To cater for these varied situations, we have within school dedicated support staff, who assist children through transition on arrival and departure from school as well as offering pastoral care during the normal school day. 

This is particularly important if families are dealing with deployments, postings and weekending. During deployments, the following document is a really helpful source of information covering a wide range of support available:

Deployment Support 

Key Information for Service Families

External sites providing service related information, particularly helpful to parents who may be moving / being posted. 

Government Guidance for Overseas Education for Service Pupils

Overseas Education Supportability Team (OEST) and Education Advisory Team (EAT)

Service Children in State Schools

Moving from or to Scotland?

The MOD’s Defence Children's Services have developed resources to assist Service families with moves into and from the Scottish education system:

•  Forces Children’s Education : Forces Children’s Education has been developed in partnership with the Association of Directors of Education Scotland (ADES).
• A guide about Scottish Education written for parents by the MOD’s Children’s Education Advisory Service. Please click this link. 

DCS also fund a National transitions officer for Scotland, who is based with ADES and the Royal Caledonian Education Trust. Her role is specifically focusing on improving transitions both into and out of the Scottish Education System. In addition DCS have a Parent Support Officer for Scotland who is employed directly to support Service families in Scotland.  

Moving to Cyprus?

This open source website will provide a one-stop shop for service personnel and their families to access useful information about being assigned to Cyprus, living in Cyprus and what to prepare for when departing Cyprus.

Welcome to British Forces Cyprus

Other organisations to provide support and information.

The Royal British Legion have produced a leaflet providing guidance to parents of service pupils. This can be found here:

RBL - Service Pupils' Education Guide

Little Troopers is a registered charity supporting all children with parents serving in the British Armed Forces, regular or reserve. They provide fundamental resources, initiatives and events to ease and aid repeated separation periods aiming to keep parent and child connected and bonded even when miles apart. They provide a consistent support approach to service children regardless of their parents' service, rank, regular / reserve forces, marital status - all their support is accessible wherever in the world families are based or choose to live. 

Little Troopers' Website