Pastoral Care
There are numerous pastoral systems in place in SJP which care for a student's college life. The two most notable pastoral system are the form and year group systems. Each year group comprises eight forms which are each named after one of the forty catholic martyrs of England and Wales and then divided up into two half year groups named Alpha and Beta. These eight forms are:
Alpha Half Year:
- JB - abbreviating St. John Bosco.
- VP - abbreviating St. Vincent De Paul.
- MT - abbreviating Mother Teresa.
- TL - abbreviating St. Therese of Lisieux
Beta Half Year:
- BH - abbreviating St. Basil Hume.
- SB - abbreviating St. Bernadette of Lourdes.
- OR - abbreviating St. Oscar Romero
- MK - abbreviating Maximillian Kolbe.
House System:
As well as the year group system, there is also a house system. Every student in the school is placed into one of six houses which are named after saints or prominent Catholic figures. These houses are:
- Romero - Named after Oscar Romero.
- Kolbe - Named after Maximillian Kolbe
- Teresa - Named after Mother Teresa.
- Bosco - Named after St John Bosco
- Hume - Named after Basil Hume.
- Bernadette - Named after St Bernadette of Lourdes.
The school also enables and encourages students to report incidents of bullying, theft, crime or any unwanted behaviour in confidence to their school 24 hours a day via the TextSomeone system the school has introduced, along with the CallParents and Truancy Call systems, introduced to free up staff time usually consumed with administrative tasks.
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“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
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