The welfare team try to keep in contact with all GB students during their time at UWC. Students are encouraged to keep in touch with 'buddies' - who are recent graduates and can provide practical advice, information and support based on their own real experience. The welfare officer can also offer support and advice and be a link between colleges, students and parents if needed. All the colleges have well established pastoral care and support systems and most students thrive during their 2 years at UWC. But anyone can have a crisis of confidence or a local difficulty that they don't seem to be able to resolve within college and, if this happens, the welfare team can try to help out before anything becomes too stressful. It is part of the role of the welfare team to organise orientation and ensure students are as well prepared as possible for the UWC experience. Orientation takes place around the end of July each year and provides an opportunity for new students and their parents to meet up, get to know each other, ask all those questions and build confidence for the term ahead.  Students are selected to represent Great Britain at their college - whether 'at home' or internationally and, as part of orientation they are also reminded of the UWC code of conduct and the National Committee's hope that they will represent themselves and their fellow GB students well in all aspects of UWC life. Colleges send termly reports on all students both to parents and to the National Committee and we also hope that students will let us know how they are getting on too. Students, graduates, parents, guardians or others involved with young people are welcome to contact the welfare officer - welfare@uwcgb.org - at any time. The National Committee is always keen to recruit student, graduate or parent volunteers to help out with events, activities etc. If you have not already signed up to our mailing list, please sign up so that we can contact you. SIGN UP HERE |