The name is absent

I wondered if you’d found that at School
B actually - although you get a clear picture
from the Head do the teachers actually operate
like that?

There is an element of that - I distinctly

who should have been wasn’t and I had a chem-

istry teacher there and he actually said
’’Why don’t you start threatening them”.
So perhaps it paints a glossy picture that
there is this philosophy regarding the use
of authority and discipline in the school.
Obviously individual teachers have their

own idiosyncracies, and I was quite surprised
because generally I think it does permeate
the whole school but obviously there are
individual teachers - I’ve heard individual
teachers say you’ve got to threaten them
and I did in fact give some kids a detention.

..... I think it ’ s the pastoral system that

has to come out in School A.

We don’t know the results yet because there
was a senior staff meeting last night on
the Social Education course but the staff
were expecting objections from their colleagues
- which is a shame because it’s so good -

to the discussion. I just wondered whether
sometimes Social Education in schools isn’t

kids - particularly with kids staying on

longer.

It's never been spoken of explicitly in those
terms. I don’t think they’re implicit though
either.

They have the Integrated Studies in the first
two years which is tied up with the pastoral
care system - 9 periods a week and the form
tutor is also the Integrated Studies tutor
and that's linked up with the transition
from primary school - but that’s I and II
year but they haven't got any equivalent
in upper school - I think Social Education
is seen as slotting into that - it will
continue the link between pastoral and curri-
culum beyond the Integrated Studies - that's
the ɪmpressicn I got. So you can't say that
the pastoral and curriculum systems are
entirely separate. They obviously have come

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