Your Responsibilities in Counselling

Counselling appointments are scheduled via email. Therefore, students need to read and respond to emails from their counsellor in a timely manner.

If the counsellor cannot get hold of a student, they may have to remove the student from counselling.

Sometimes you cannot make it to your counselling appointment: Plans change, things happen. If you need to reschedule or cancel, please email your counsellor as soon as possible.

If you can, inform your counsellor at least 24 hours ahead of time (or earlier). The earlier you inform your counsellor, the more likely it is that the time slot can go to another student who needs counselling.

Students who attend counselling are expected to attend their appointments on time.

If students miss or do not attend the booked appointments on a regular basis, the counsellors will need to discuss this with the Head of Year/House, and may have to remove the student from counselling.

If you attend counselling during lesson time, you are expected to catch up on any coursework that you may have missed because you attended a counselling session. 

You will need to complete this coursework in your own time.

The counselling services are there for all students at SIS. Remember that many students may want to attend counselling for their own personal reasons.

You can show kindness and respect to other students by attending the appointments you booked.

You can also be a positive role model by respecting other students' privacy and their decisions to go to counselling.

As a member of the SIS community, you are responsible for respecting and observing the school policies.

These include the following key policies, among others:

• Code of Conduct

• Anti-Bullying Code

• Substance Misuse Policy

• School Uniform and Dress Code

Read our key policies on the SIS website.