HEAD OF PASTORAL MESSAGE

Kabojja International School has many departments one of which is the pastoral office which generally deals with the social welfare of the institution: the type of meals offered, to minimise junk intake. It oversees how the boarding learners sleep, works in liaison with the IMC as they provide the best health service with two resident nurses and a visiting doctor. Above all, the pastoral office is in charge of discipline as one of our core values is to provide the learners with the appropriate moral and social skills leading towards self discipline and empowerment.

Pastoral education is given by the school to enable students get aware of aspects of life such as self image/esteem, self discipline, social skills like etiquette, decision making, making realistic goals, adolescent challenges like peer pressure to mention a few. The pastoral office offers guidance and counselling to the learners. Like any growing young people, they have a few challenges like taking care of their bodies (changes like the puberty stage), relationship challenges, peer influence and so on.

We offer a shoulder to lean on for children with social problems like those affected by broken homes- divorced parents, those that have been abused to mention but a few. With the national lock down we have stayed in touch with our learners who have different concerns now like not being listened to and understood by the parents, being mean and very strict on them, doing a lot of chores without house helps, confiscating their gadgets, the list is long. We have managed to talk to them, teach table etiquette, how to use their phones, how to behave at home, time to wake up, sleep, shower, make beds, do laundry, etiquette in public places like shopping malls etc.

The pastoral support is a service that gives help to students, providing information, advice, and guidance, working closely with parents, guardians and other specialist agencies in order to support student achievement and attainment. We call upon our esteemed parents to use this time to listen and guide the children into acquiring basic skills.

Enid Kalira Kalitani

Head pastoral.