At St John’s Preparatory School, we see the children’s emotional well-being as being central to their growth and success. To this end we provide pastoral care and support to the boys on a variety of levels:

• Class teachers monitor and care for the boys on a day-to-day basis, liasing with parents and professionals who can assist the boys who are in need.
• Housemasters interact with the boys outside of the classroom context, providing additional objective guidance and support.
• The school's pastoral care team (Headmaster, both Deputies, the Housemasters and the school Psychologist) meet every week to discuss boys in need and to provide appropriate support.
• The school psychologist provides counselling and therapy to the boys who are in need of this, and helps to manage the cases of those boys who are referred out to other professionals. In addition, she advises and assists parents and teachers.
• The learning support teacher provides remedial therapy to those boys in need of extra support in their academic programme, and advises staff and parents on how best to help these boys in the classroom and home contexts.

As a pro-active measure to improve the resilience and emotional and social skills of our boys, we have developed a Lifeskills module for each grade which focuses on developing the boys’ EQ through a carefully designed and age-appropriate curriculum.