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This study explores the potential of adopting a whole-school approach to the pastoral care module in a Postgraduate Certificate of Education Programme to ensure that all newly qualified teachers practice effective pastoral care in their classrooms and promote the learners’ academic engagement and performance. A group-administered questionnaire was used to collect the opinion of 59 student teachers’ on the competencies they obtain from the module. The student teachers ranked knowledge first, beliefs and values second and skills third.