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Tutors
Tutors are a lifeline to occasional relief from responsibility for HouseMs. Ensure that there are House tutor meetings at least fortnightly and minute these meetings on Teams. Make tutors welcome and feel part of the House – HouseMs should ask them to birthday suppers and to House events. They should come along and the pupils particularly appreciate it. A suggested routine for tutors is attached – see Appendix Twenty-eight.
Each pupil has an academic tutor and they should be included in pertinent information that House staff have about pupils. Work closely with the tutors of you charges to ensure that the best pastoral care and academic development can be achieved. Lower School tutors also work in the boarding House but Sixth Form ones do not necessarily do so. Students in the Sixth Form choose their academic tutor.
Uptown
Pupils may go uptown after 4.30pm on weekdays providing they do not have co-curricular commitments and they are given permission by their HouseM, Deputy or House Assistant (at the House’s discretion). They must be given a chit – sixthformers with effort grades of 4 and above are issued with a ‘permanent’ uptown chit. Sixthformers may go uptown during an independent study period if they have co-curricular commitments preventing them from going at the normal time but they need a specific chit even if they have a permanent uptown one. Discourage pupils from going uptown everyday (there really is nothing very exciting in Malvern and most essentials can be purchased in School Togs next to the Grub). Pupils who are behind in their work should not be allowed to go uptown until teachers express satisfaction that the pupil is back on track. When pupils go uptown they should wear casual clothes, certainly not Lower School uniform, PE kit or CCF uniform. See Appendix Twenty-Six for a selection of uptown, Worcester and pub chits. Sixth Form pupils are allowed to go into Worcester on Sunday afternoons but require a chit. Upper Sixth may go to Birmingham on Sunday. On Saturday night, pupils over the age of eighteen may go uptown after 8.30pm (to a public house) but they need a chit.
Vacation Time
Dry cleaning, which the assistant sends off at the end of term, will be returned to the House during the holidays (the dry cleaners liaise with the assistants as to when so no one needs to be around for it).
Post for students can usually wait for their return. Please make sure that leavers have given their new correspondence details to banks, universities, etc.
Storage for overseas pupils should be in a locked space – most Houses have a trunk room or use a common room. School insurance does not cover pupils’ possessions – everything is left at their own risk.
UK students should not leave possessions in the House. If they do, they will then return with even more and clutter will increase hugely. You will end up with boxes of junk if they are not disciplined into taking everything home at the end of term. After repeatedly making it clear to pupils what you are planning to do, take any abandoned property to a charity shop. DO IT!
It will make your life much easier, especially when the House is let out during holidays.
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