Pastoral Teams

Pastoral Council

1. To review and develop policy in regards to Pastoral issues.
2. To coordinate the activities of the School Pastoral Teams.
3. To deliver pastoral counselling in a planned and systematic manner and to ensure that there is no duplication of activities.

Staff Welfare Team

Objectives 
To provide for the pastoral needs of staff in liaison with the Principal and SMT.

Hospitality Team

1. To receive guests at important school and social functions.
2. To liaise with related committees / associations in connection with school hospitality matters.

Guidance Team

1. To provide pastoral guidance to boys in regards to emotional or behavioural issues.
2. To help boys understand their strengths and weaknesses, enhance their self-esteem, improve their communication skills, and set goals in the future.

1. Case Handling
   To promote whole-person development of students, an integrated guidance and discipline approach is adopted. The Guidance Team manages emotional, behavioural and adjustment problems while students who demonstrate serious personal, family, and peer problems are referred to the school social worker. Cases involving serious offences will be managed by the Discipline Master. Repeated latecomers cases are handled by guidance teachers. Those who show little or no improvement after counselling are referred to the Discipline Master or school social worker.
2. Preventive and Developmental Programmes
   
   1. The Form 1 Form Teacher Parent Meeting– an annual function which gives the new Form 1 students and parents a basic understanding of the school environment and facilities.
   2. Introduction of counselling service to Form 1 students – class visits are conducted to introduce the school social work and counselling services
   3. Recruitment of G.C. volunteers – senior students are recruited and divided into different groups. Training sessions are provided before badges are conferred.
   4. The Buddies Scheme – F.1 students selected by Form Teachers are matched with F.4 buddies recommended by teachers.
   5. Peer Counselors’ Scheme – F.2 and F.3 students referred by their Form Teachers are matched with F.6 Peer Counselors. The programme aims at helping F.2 and F.3 students with academic and / or behavioural issues.
   6. Personal Growth through adventure-based activities – the programme is run with the help of social workers. The activities help participants explore their strengths and weaknesses and set goals for the future.
   7. Guidance talks on topics like Relationships and Sexuality, are arranged for students of different Forms.
   8. Counselling students referred by teachers. Guidance teachers provide counselling services to students who may have learning, emotional, or behavioural problems.
3. Group and Case activities
   Individual guidance is given to pupils who are either self-referred or teacher-referred. Staff development and case conferences are held every now and then.

Careers Team

1. To help students to achieve a better understanding of themselves and explore their interests, and aspirations.
2. To assist students in making well-informed choices regarding their further education and future careers.

Discipline Committees

1. To adopt a preventive and proactive approach in school discipline.
2. To improve school discipline and order through a collaborative approach by adopting a 3-tier structure: School Discipline Board, School Discipline Team, and Student Association (SA) Discipline Board.
3. To handle very serious discipline cases through the Serious Case Panel.
4. To develop students’ self-discipline and self-control.
5. To develop students’ accountability for their behaviour and responsibility for life.
6. To promote the values of honesty, fairness, and respect for others.
7. To enable self-reflection, conflict-resolution, and correction of misbehaviour in students.
8. To review existing school discipline policy and measures in relation to changes in society.

School Discipline Board

1. To review the discipline cases report annually.
2. To decide on the areas for concern for the Discipline Team in the next school year.
3. To review and recommend new disciplinary policies and measures to the Principal. 

School Discipline Team

Assembly Team

1. To mark the opening and end of school year with whole school assemblies.
2. To organize Graduation Assemblies.
3. To coordinate the talks organized by the Pastoral teams.
4. To coordinate the talks organized by the OLE teams.
5. To maintain an orderly and balanced arrangement of assemblies so that they are evenly spread out across the year and across the forms.

Home-School Cooperation Team

1. To enhance home-school relationships.
2. To develop effective home-school policies.
3. To bridge the communication between the school and parent.
4. To align expectation and needs from both the school and the parents.
5. To contribute and support the school and PTA in activities beneficial to students’ mental and academic growth.

1. Teachers’ Day.
2. PTA Standing Committee Election & Annual General Meeting.
3. Parent-Teacher Gatherings.
4. PTA Annual Dinner.
5. PTA China Study Tour.
6. PTA Standing Committee meetings.
7. PTA Parent Education Seminars.
8. Reading Club activities organized by PTA.
9. Recreational activities organized by PTA.

1. To collect, organise and preserve Lasallian achievements and archives.
2. To encourage students to learn and admire our achievement.
3. To provide support for school and student functions, Old Boys’ Association, PTA and other Lasallian schools by supplying materials concerning the legacy of our magnificent school.
4. To develop students’ skills in data collection, research, organisation, data presentation and the running of a committee. 

Student Association Steering Committee

1. To advise and supervise the Student Association.
2. To set up a Presidential Election Committee to help organize the election.
3. To screen, interview, and approve of the inauguration of new cabinet of Student Association.
4. To make suggestions and recommendations to each SA activity and programme.
5. To hold regular meeting with Student Association and receive progress reports, evaluation reports, and financial statements from the executive committee members at each meeting.
6. To advise the Student Association on Joint School Programmes and any other programmes involving external organizations.
7. To provide guidance and facilitate “passing the torch” to the following years student leaders.
8. To serve as a bridge between the Principal and the student body.
9. To help foster the personal growth of the SA student leaders in leadership, wisdom, responsibility, integrity, accountability and commitment to excellence.

Service Learning Team

1. To offer a unique opportunity for students to respond to Christ's call to the service of others.
2. To challenge the students to look beyond their own concerns and to allow the students to see that they have both the gifts and the responsibility to reach out to others, particularly the less fortunate.
3. To liaise with other service groups in the school.
4. To liaise with NGOs outside school.
5. To help students reflect on their service experiences and construct something meaningful out of them.
6. To facilitate students to record their services rendered inside and outside school in a systematic way.

National and Civic Education Team

1. To nurture students' perserverance, respect for others, sense of responsibility, national identity, commitment, integrity and care for others
2. To cultivate positive values and altitudes.
3. To enhance the ability to make value judgements.
4. To enhance students' comprehensive understanding of the constitution, the Basic Law and national security.

Lasallite Editorial Board

The Lasallite Editorial Board is responsible for the publication of the Lasallite, the school annual Yearbook.   

Form Teachers’ Period Team

1. To imbue students with good moral values and equip them with practical life skills which prepare them for future challenges.
2. To help students develop a positive outlook on life and cultivate a healthy mental/physical mindset.
3. To nurture students to be men of good character – honest, responsible, fair-minded, broad-minded,committed to excellence, and self-disciplined.
4. To help students gain wider exposure and acceptance of different aspects and viewpoints in life.
5. To engage students in lifelong learning and to live a healthy, balanced, happy, and fulfilling life.    

1. To extend the scope of learning from classroom to other environments.
2. To develop students' multiple intelligence, creative, and innovation competences.
3. To provide opportunity for all-round development by offering different extension programmes.
4. To provide opportunity for leadership.
5. To promote a positive competitive spirit.
6. To monitor the CCB in disciplining all internal and external extra-curricular activities initiated by clubs and societies.
7. To issue a Weekly Bulletin to compile and record all external and internal school activities.
8. To ensure all posters are posted and arranged in their proper display areas.
9. To monitor all requests for booking of movable display boards and window billboards.
10. To monitor the issuance and data input of all students’ activities record.