Scope & Purpose 

“Each child is special: each child has needs: each child has special needs.”

The degree to which we succeed in meeting these needs is the measure of our success as a new school community. 

At Living School, we feel that pastoral welfare is the key to a child’s happy and healthy development. This belief is at the heart of the school’s pastoral system, which through the closest co-operation with each child’s parents, seeks to establish and nurture a genuine understanding of the nature and needs of each child in the broadest sense.

Children are taught to respect each other’s basic human rights to tolerance, respect, dignity, choice, independence and fulfilment, because they exist in an environment which itself, through the staff, gives them these things. As we wish our children to acquire these values, so we must evidence them in our dealings with the children.