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The Role of the Boarding Tutor
The role of the boarding tutor is:
1. To
complete an evening duty in the boarding house each week:
• weekly evening duty starts at 6.30pm with a handover between the HouseM/Deputy and the tutor. Check handover notes on Teams.
• The tutor is required to supervise supper, take registrations, and provide cover throughout the evening. Please watch for pupils not eating supper. Please chase up absentees. If a pupil cannot be located, this should be reported as soon as possible to the HouseM/Deputy HouseM.
• The tutor should help to maintain good order and a positive environment in the House, particularly ensuring that there is a quiet and purposeful atmosphere during Hall.
• Tutors should be an active presence and circulate around the House, and not use it as an opportunity to complete their own individual work (e.g. marking, emails, or meeting with other pupils). Visit rooms at random during Hall.
• Liaise with the Sixth Form pupil on duty.
• Help collect phones and laptops for Lower School pupils before bed, in conjunction with HouseM/Deputy HouseM.
• Dispense and record medication, following school policies and procedures.
• Supervise pupils at bed time, ensuring an orderly and punctual bedtime.
• The tutor should complete a handover on Microsoft Teams at the end of the duty evening.
• On occasion, the HouseM may require the Tutor to stay beyond 10.30pm.
2. to complement and amplify the work of the HouseM by working together closely for the benefit of pupils in the House.
3. to develop good relationships with all pupils in the House, and to develop an understanding of their background, thus being able to reasonably assist with their academic and pastoral welfare.
4. to support the House on certain occasions i.e. House singing, plays, sports, Cup and birthday suppers and on occasions when parents are to be entertained.
5. to attend boarding tutor meetings – usually held on Thursday lunchtimes.
6. to attend House lunches at least once per week.
7. to promote and safeguard the welfare of pupils.
8. to report any safeguarding concerns, including low level concerns, to the Designated Safeguarding Lead or their Deputy in a timely manner.
Tutors may, in consultation with the HouseM, swap their evening duty with another tutor to meet their own personal circumstances. It is the tutor’s responsibility to arrange a swap if needed.
For new boarding tutors:
Please complete your induction with your HouseM for new boarding tutors. HouseMs will provide the checklist. Please notify the Deputy Head Pastoral when complete.
Reference guides for all boarding tutors (available on Sharepoint):
The Guide to Malvern College
The Parents’ Pastoral Guide to Malvern College The Staff Handbook
Please be familiar with:
National Minimum Standards for boarding schools (publishing.service.gov.uk)
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