diff --git a/openapi/components/examples/problem-internalServerError.yaml b/openapi/components/examples/problem-internalServerError.yaml
index decc86f1..3a6d2920 100644
--- a/openapi/components/examples/problem-internalServerError.yaml
+++ b/openapi/components/examples/problem-internalServerError.yaml
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ value:
   type:   about:blank
   title:  Internal Server Error
   status: 500
-  detail: An unexpected error occured when accessing resource with ID=1. This error has been logged.
+  detail: An unexpected error occurred when accessing resource with ID=1. This error has been logged.
diff --git a/openapi/components/requestBodies/pastoral-partial-item.yaml b/openapi/components/requestBodies/pastoral-partial-item.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a98297e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openapi/components/requestBodies/pastoral-partial-item.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+description: |
+  Pastoral record
+content:
+  application/json:
+    schema:
+      type: object
+      properties:
+        heading:
+          description: Pastoral record title.
+          type: string
+          maxLength: 255
+        occurredOn:
+          description: The date on which this is occurred in the format configured in your Admin area. This also accepts RFC3339 format such as 2021-06-22T01:23:45+10:00
+          type: string
+          format: date
+          example: 2021-06-22T01:23:45+10:00
+          nullable: true
+        typeId:
+          description: The ID of a pastoral type to associate with this pastoral record.
+          type: integer
+          nullable: false
+        subtypeId:
+          description: |
+            The ID of a pastoral sub-type to associate to this pastoral record.\
+            The sub-type must already be associated with the type provided as typeId.\
+            This can be null, if the pastoral type does not have any sub-type.\
+            This cannot be null, if the pastoral type has sub-type(s).
+          type: integer
+          nullable: true
+        severityId:
+          description: |
+            The ID of a pastoral severity to associate with this pastoral record.\
+            Required only if Allow specification of severity on pastoral records config is ON.
+          type: integer
+          nullable: true
+        body_public:
+          description: |
+            General content of this pastoral record in raw HTML.\
+            The following tokens will be substituted with the students details on creation: [firstname], [preferredname], [surname], [fullname], [year], [house].
+          type: string
+          maxLength: 65535
+          nullable: true
+        body_private:
+          description: |
+            Confidential content of this pastoral record in raw HTML.\
+            The following tokens will be substituted with the students details on creation: [firstname], [preferredname], [surname], [fullname], [year], [house].
+          type: string
+          maxLength: 65535
+          nullable: true
+        actions[]:
+          description: |
+            An array of IDs of pastoral action.\
+            Available only if Enable Pastoral Actions config is ON.
+          type: array
+          nullable: true
+          items:
+            type: integer
+        tags:
+          description: |
+            Comma separated IDs of existing Pastoral Record Tags.\
+            If non numerical string is provided, it'll be silently discarded.\
+            To provide a name to create a new tag, use tagNames instead.
+          type: string
+          nullable: true
+        tagNames:
+          description: |
+            Comma separated names of Pastoral Record Tags.\
+            If Allow Staff to Create Pastoral Care Tags config is ON, attempts to create a new tag, if not alraeady exists.\
+            The max length of a tag name is 255 chars.
+          type: string
+          nullable: true
+        points:
+          description: Points of this pastoral record.
+          type: number
+          format: float
+          minimum: -100000
+          maximum: 100000
+          nullable: true
+        role:
+          description: |
+            An array of pairs of a role and its access level to this pastoral record in the format of:\
+            `$roleId => $accessLevel`
+            * `$roleId` is one of the following:
+              * The ID of a role of Staff Role Type with Access Pastoral Care permission
+              * 'role-type-parent' (requires Allow Parent Pastoral Access config enabled)
+              * 'role-type-student' (requires Allow Student Pastoral Access config enabled)
+            * `$accessLevel` is an integer representation of access level of the $roleId
+              * 0 - Deny
+              * 1 - General
+              * 2 - General + Confidential
+          type: array
+          nullable: true
+        group:
+          description: |
+            An array of pairs of a pastoral group and its access level to this pastoral record in the format of:\
+            `$pastoralGroupId => $accessLevel`
+            * `$pastoralGroupId` is the ID of a pastoral group to set access level to
+            * `$accessLevel` is an integer representation of access level of the $roleId
+              * 0 - Deny
+              * 1 - General
+              * 2 - General + Confidential
+          type: array
+          nullable: true
+        user:
+          description: |
+            An array of pairs of a user and its access level to this pastoral record in the format of:\
+            `$userId => $accessLevel`
+            * `$userId` is ID of a user to set access level to. The user must be one of:
+              * a staff with pastoral access
+              * a parent of the student (requires Allow Parent Pastoral Access enabled)
+            * `$accessLevel` is an integer representation of access level of the $roleId
+              * 0 - Deny
+              * 1 - General
+              * 2 - General + Confidential
+          type: array
+          nullable: true
+      required:
+        - id
diff --git a/openapi/components/schemas/pastoral-item.yaml b/openapi/components/schemas/pastoral-item.yaml
index fd569111..2aacad54 100644
--- a/openapi/components/schemas/pastoral-item.yaml
+++ b/openapi/components/schemas/pastoral-item.yaml
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ items:
         sequence:
           description: The order in which this pastoral severity will display in a pastoral severity list.
           type: integer
-    occuredOn:
+    occurredOn:
       description: The date on which this is occurred as a RFC3339 string.
       type: string
       format: date-time
diff --git a/openapi/components/schemas/pastoral-partial-item.yaml b/openapi/components/schemas/pastoral-partial-item.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..65fefa85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openapi/components/schemas/pastoral-partial-item.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,287 @@
+title: a partial Pastoral Record
+description: A partial pastoral record.
+readOnly: true
+type: array
+items:
+  properties:
+    id:
+      $ref: ./id.yaml
+    externalId:
+      description: The ID of SIS data corresponding to this pastoral record, if External Pastoral Synchronisation is ON.
+      type: string
+      nullable: true
+    student:
+      title: User
+      description: Short fields for users
+      type: object
+      properties:
+        id:
+          $ref: ./id.yaml
+        externalId:
+          $ref: ./externalId.yaml
+        title:
+          type: string
+          nullable: true
+          description: The user's title (Mr., Ms., etc.).
+          example: Ms
+        firstName:
+          type: string
+          nullable: true
+          description: |
+            The user's first name.
+      
+            Schoolbox doesn't distinguish between a person's actual first name
+            and any other names, and in any case is not the definitive source of
+            naming information; therefore in practice this will usually be the
+            user's given name.
+          example: Rebecca
+        lastName:
+          type: string
+          nullable: true
+          description: The user's surname.
+          example: White
+        preferredName:
+          type: string
+          nullable: true
+          description: The user's preferred name.
+        _links:
+          type: object
+          properties:
+            profile:
+              type: string
+              format: uri-reference
+            avatar:
+              type: string
+              format: uri-reference
+              nullable: true
+    heading:
+      description: Heading of the pastoral record.
+      type: string
+    type:
+      description: Type of the pastoral record.
+      type: object
+      properties:
+        id:
+          description: The ID of the pastoral type associated to this pastoral record.
+          type: integer
+        name:
+          description: The name of the pastoral type.
+          type: string
+        icon:
+          description: The name of the icon associated to the pastoral type.
+          type: string
+        colour:
+          description: The colour of the icon associated to the pastoral type.
+          type: string
+        sentiment:
+          type: string
+        sequence:
+          description: The order in which this pastoral type will display in a pastoral type list.
+          type: integer
+    subType:
+      description: Sub-type of the pastoral record.
+      type: object
+      properties:
+        id:
+          description: The ID of the pastoral sub-type associated to this pastoral record.
+          type: integer
+        name:
+          description: The name of the pastoral sub-type.
+          type: string
+        icon:
+          description: The name of the icon associated to the pastoral sub-type.
+          type: string
+        colour:
+          description: The colour of the icon associated to the pastoral sub-type.
+          type: string
+        sentiment:
+          type: string
+        sequence:
+          description: The order in which this pastoral sub-type will display in a pastoral sub-type list.
+          type: integer
+    severity:
+      description: Severity of the pastoral record.
+      type: object
+      properties:
+        id:
+          description: The ID of the pastoral severity of this pastoral record.
+          type: integer
+        name:
+          description: The name of the pastoral severity.
+          type: string
+        color:
+          description: The colour associated to the pastoral severity.
+          type: string
+        sequence:
+          description: The order in which this pastoral severity will display in a pastoral severity list.
+          type: integer
+    occurredOn:
+      description: The date on which this is occurred as a RFC3339 string.
+      type: string
+      format: date-time
+    points:
+      nullable: true
+      description: Points of this pastoral record.
+      type: integer
+    tags:
+      description: List of tag names.
+      type: array
+      items:
+        properties:
+          id:
+            description: The ID of the pastoral tag.
+            type: integer
+          name:
+            description: The name of the pastoral tag.
+            type: string
+    bodyPublic:
+      description: |
+        General content of this pastoral record in raw HTML.
+      type: string
+    bodyPrivate:
+      description: |
+        Confidential content of this pastoral record in raw HTML.
+      type: string
+    attachmentsPublic:
+      description: |
+        Files attached to General content.
+      type: array
+      items:
+        $ref: ./file.yaml
+    attachmentsPrivate:
+      description: |
+        Files attached to Confidential content.
+      type: array
+      items:
+        $ref: ./file.yaml
+    commentsPublic:
+      description: |
+        General comments.
+      type: array
+      items:
+        $ref: ./discussionComment-read.yaml
+    commentsPrivate:
+      description: |
+        Confidential comments
+      type: array
+      items:
+        $ref: ./discussionComment-read.yaml
+    recordActions:
+      nullable: true
+      description: An array of pastoral actions.
+      type: array
+      items:
+        properties:
+          id:
+            description: The ID of the pastoral action.
+            type: integer
+          name:
+            description: The name of the pastoral action.
+            type: string
+          completed:
+            description: Whether the action is completed.
+            type: boolean
+          updatedAt:
+            description: The last modified date of the action as a RFC3339 string.
+            type: string
+            format: date-time
+          updatedBy:
+            $ref: ./userAuthor.yaml
+    createdBy:
+      $ref: ./userAuthor.yaml
+    createdAt:
+      type: string
+      format: date-time
+      description: |
+        The date as a RFC3339 string.
+    updatedBy:
+      $ref: ./userAuthor.yaml
+    updatedAt:
+      type: string
+      format: date-time
+      description: |
+        The date as a RFC3339 string.
+    _links:
+      type: object
+  example:
+    id: 77
+    externalId: null
+    student:
+      id: 25
+      _links:
+        profile: /search/user/25
+        avatar: /portrait.php?id=25&size=square64
+      title: Ms
+      firstName: Jana
+      preferredName: null
+      lastName: Reed
+      fullName: Ms Jana Reed
+      isDeleted: false
+      externalId: 507
+    heading: Academic Achievement Award - Semester 2
+    type:
+      id: 1
+      name: Academic
+      colour: null
+      icon: null
+      sentiment: neutral
+      sequence: 1
+    subType:
+      id: 1
+      name: Award/Achievement
+      colour: rgba(182, 74, 74, 1.000)
+      icon: achievement
+      sentiment: neutral
+      sequence: 1
+    severity:
+      id: 1
+      name: Low
+      sequence: 1
+      color: rgba(0, 128, 0, 1.000)
+    points: 50
+    tags:
+      - id: 26
+        name: test tag A
+      - id: 27
+        name: test tag B
+    bodyPrivate: null
+    bodyPublic: Public body\nPublic body.
+    attachmentsPrivate: []
+    attachmentsPublic:
+      - hash: 723b6e31c2979b33deea852cdbbad9c4b0e00b96
+        mime: image/jpeg
+        type: image
+        size: 279489
+        _links:
+          fetch: /storage/fetch.php?hash=723b6e31c2979b33deea852cdbbad9c4b0e00b96
+          icon: /static/images/mime/application-image-jpg.svg
+          image: /storage/image.php?hash=723b6e31c2979b33deea852cdbbad9c4b0e00b96
+    commentsPrivate: []
+    commentsPublic: []
+    recordActions: []
+    createdBy:
+      id: 22
+      _links:
+        profile: /search/user/165
+        avatar: /portrait.php?id=165&size=square64
+      title:
+      firstName: Jack
+      preferredName: null
+      lastName: Coles
+      fullName: Jack Coles
+      isDeleted: false
+    createdAt: 2022-11-14T15:08:21+11:00
+    updatedBy:
+      id: 22
+      _links:
+        profile: /search/user/165
+        avatar: /portrait.php?id=165&size=square64
+      title:
+      firstName: Jack
+      preferredName: null
+      lastName: Coles
+      fullName: Jack Coles
+      isDeleted: false
+    updatedAt: 2022-11-14T15:08:21+11:00
+    _links:
+      read: /pastoral/student/25/record/77
diff --git a/openapi/openapi.yaml b/openapi/openapi.yaml
index e54b7f66..5eed7cfa 100644
--- a/openapi/openapi.yaml
+++ b/openapi/openapi.yaml
@@ -290,6 +290,9 @@ paths:
   /pastoral/record/insert:
     $ref: 'paths/pastoral@record@insert.yaml'
 
+  /pastoral/record/{id}/update:
+    $ref: 'paths/pastoral@record@update.yaml'
+
   /api/curriculum/usage/{id}:
     $ref: 'paths/api@curriculum@usage@{id}.yaml'
 
diff --git a/openapi/paths/pastoral@record@update.yaml b/openapi/paths/pastoral@record@update.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f8a6d799
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openapi/paths/pastoral@record@update.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+patch:
+  operationId: pastoral.patchRecordUpdate
+  tags: [pastoral]
+  summary: Partially update a pastoral record
+  parameters:
+    - $ref: ../components/parameters/id.yaml
+  description: |
+    Updates an existing pastoral record with a partial set of changes for brevity, such as updating a heading without needing to specify everything about the pastoral record explicitly.
+    Only some fields are supported by this endpoint, described below. Any fields outside of this set are disregarded.
+    Any fields omitted remain unchanged. Note that for updating Pastoral Actions you need to enable the config setting in admin.
+    
+    #### Availability
+    This is accessible only when Pastoral module is enabled.
+    #### Permission
+    This endpoint is available for:
+    * Users with Pastoral Moderator service permission
+    * Users with a role of Staff role type with Access Pastoral Care permission
+  responses:
+    '200':
+      description: Successfully updated a pastoral record
+      content:
+        application/json:
+          schema:
+            $ref: ../components/schemas/pastoral-partial-item.yaml
+    default:
+      $ref: ../components/responses/problem.yaml
+  requestBody:
+    $ref: ../components/requestBodies/pastoral-partial-item.yaml