We pride ourselves on our pastoral care, which is grounded in the Catholic duties of care and tolerance. You daughter will be a part of a Form Group, and her Form Teacher will be responsible for monitoring her well-being and her academic progress. Through the Personal, Social and Health Education programme she will explore issues designed to help her think about the big ethical issues as well as practical and personal ones. If entering at Year 7 she will also have a Lower 6th Former to act as a mentor during her first year with us. We regard liaison with parents as being critical to the wellbeing and success of our girls. Parents meet formally with teachers at least once a year, and they also receive two formal Reports. However there is also a great deal of informal contact which arises as needed, and there are good channels of communication between parents and the Form Staff.

Your daughter will be a member of one of our four Houses. The Houses are run by pupils and Staff together, and are headed jointly by a House Captain and a Head of House. The Houses are the centre of all intellectual, sporting and creative competition within the School, but they also represent a grouping which is larger than a Form or Year Group but smaller that the whole School and therefore can provide another sense of belonging as well as opportunities for our girls to learn responsibility and practical leadership. The School Forum meets regularly under the leadership of the Head Girl and her Deputies. Each Form sends a representative to the Forum, which discusses matters which are of importance to the School. The Head Girls and School Officers meet with the Headmaster on a regular basis and in these meetings they will represent the views of the Forum to him, as well as raising other issues on their own initiative. All girls are expected to be well presented, well mannered and courteous in their dealings with other members of the School, with members of Staff and of the public, both on and off the School's premises. We thus encourage a sense of responsibility towards others. The School has few rules, and these are reviewed regularly. All are designed to make our community a civilised, calm and pleasant one. The rules are quietly but firmly enforced by the Staff and the School Officers.