Every student, known and looked after

Academic success in Sixth Form depends on more than good teaching. It depends on a student feeling secure enough to ask for help before a problem grows, and on the adults around them noticing when something's changed, even before a student says a word. Pastoral welfare at CBSC isn't a single team or a single service — it's a web of relationships and routes to support, built so that wherever a student's need shows up first, it reaches the right person quickly.

Where pastoral support starts

Every student's first and most consistent point of contact is their tutor — typically a subject specialist who sees them regularly, knows their academic progress, and is well placed to notice a change in engagement, mood or attendance long before it becomes a crisis.

Where a student needs more than their regular tutor group can offer, our Focus Tutor Group — run by our Sixth Form Raising Standards Leads — provides targeted, half-termly support that flexes to whatever the cohort actually needs, from attendance stabilisation to academic stretch.

Sitting above tutor level, our Sixth Form pastoral lead oversees welfare across both year groups, ensuring students' pastoral needs are reviewed regularly, not only when something goes wrong.

Specialist and external support

Some needs go beyond what a school can provide alone. Where they do, our pastoral team draws on established relationships with external agencies, including CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services), social care, and school nursing — coordinating referrals so students and families aren't left to navigate this alone.

Students with a social worker, including looked-after and previously looked-after students, receive dedicated Personal Education Plan support to make sure their pastoral and academic needs are tracked together, not separately. 

Woven through the curriculum, not separate from it

Pastoral welfare isn't confined to a crisis response — it's built into the everyday curriculum. Our RSHE and PSHCE programme covers mental health literacy, resilience, bereavement, and recognising when and how to seek help, delivered through weekly tutor time, PSHCE lessons, and assemblies throughout both years.

Support built around individual circumstances

Some students need pastoral support shaped around a specific, ongoing need. Our SEND provision and Pupil Premium strategy both include dedicated pastoral elements — from EHCP-linked support and access to external professionals, to financial barrier removal and wellbeing check-ins for disadvantaged students.

 

Find out more

SEND in the Sixth Form →  How we support students with additional learning needs, including pastoral and wellbeing provision. Linked HERE

Supporting Disadvantaged Students →  Our Pupil Premium strategy, including dedicated pastoral and wellbeing support. Linked HERE. Pupil Premium Strategy Main Page can be found HERE

Tutor Programme →  How tutor time supports every student, every week. Linked HERE

RSHE →  Our approach to Relationships, Sex and Health Education in the Sixth Form. Linked HERE

How to get help

Any student can speak to their tutor, Raising Standards Leads, Pastoral Support Officer, Academic Mentor in confidence, at any time — not only during a scheduled tutor session. If you're a parent with a concern about your child's wellbeing, please don't wait for a scheduled contact point: get in touch with leadershipsixthform@carshaltonboys.org  directly.

Safe Guarding concerns can also be reported via the “Report it sort it”  HERE