Course outline
This seminar will address the importance of a good and rigorous induction for both students, and staff. We pride ourselves on having strong communities within our schools but this means we need to be considerate and conscientious in welcoming and inducting people. Suggestions and ideas will be shared to encourage delegates to review the induction processes for both new staff and new students.
Training topics will include:
Learning outcomes:
Speaker: Mark Robinson, BSA Senior Consultant
Mark has a Product Design Degree from Brunel University and a PGCE. His first post in independent education was as Assistant Master at Christ’s Hospital in Horsham where he held several positions including Assistant Housemaster to a junior boy’s boarding house. After five years he moved on to Ardingly College in West Sussex as a Head of Department and Housemaster to a joint day and boarding house. Mark has been an inspector on boarding inspections, an Assistant Housemaster to a girls’ boarding house and fully involved in teaching up to ‘A‘ Level.
In 2002 Mark gave up teaching to set up Mentor Education Services Ltd, a business offering education-related consultancy services to the independent sector, initially training, interview coaching and professional development but also marketing and pre-inspection to schools both in the independent and maintained sector.
Mark was appointed as Assistant Director of Training for the Boarding Schools’ Association in 2010, where he continued offering training and consultancy to independent and state schools both in the UK and around the world. In 2017 he was appointed as Deputy Head Pastoral at Collège du Léman in Switzerland, a large international boarding and day school. After gaining some further, valuable international experience, Mark returned to the UK to continue his training and consultancy in the Independent and state school sectors.
On June 11, the BSA published a press release highlighting boarding as the 'jewel in the crown' of UK education with a call to all parties to recognise, promote and protect the sector during the General Election campaign.
Read the full release via: www.boarding.org.uk/2024/06/12/all-party-call-to-support-boarding-as-jewel-in-the-crown-of-uk-edu...
... See MoreSee Less
0 CommentsComment on Facebook
“I feel a new level of awareness”: Novi Sleepout teaches boys valuable lessons about homelessness https://www.boarding.org.uk/2024/06/14/i-feel-a-new-level-of-awareness-novi-sleepout-teaches-boys-valuable-lessons-about-homelessness/ ...
Friends reunited as pupils head of Italy https://www.boarding.org.uk/2024/06/14/friends-reunited-as-pupils-head-of-italy/ ...
Keswick School: Outstanding and Outstanding! https://ow.ly/Thwz50Sj2Hn ...
ACS Hillingdon close out academic year with formal farewell for departing students https://ow.ly/sBgI50ShK9B ...
Bedales students take on new musical https://ow.ly/6jhi50ShK1k ...
Taunton School Appoints New Assistant Head Pastoral https://ow.ly/bXBM50ShJSR ...
Royal Hospital School Pupil Wins the Mayor’s Award for Outstanding Voluntary Service https://ow.ly/XOpn50ShJMo ...
Strathallan students to represent Scotland at European Touch Rugby Championships https://ow.ly/zPmf50ShIl7 ...
🌈 Happy #PrideMonth! BSA stands proudly with the LGBTQIA+ community. Diversity, inclusion, and allyship are at the heart of everything we do. 🏳️🌈 #Pride2024 ...
Taunton School students enjoy national sporting success in hockey, netball and taekwondo
https://ow.ly/AUj650S0k9a
...
DLD College London Appoints Student Council
https://ow.ly/QpVH50S0jMm
...
Artistic Impressions…. Creative Abbey College Manchester Students are Celebrated
https://ow.ly/8LnU50S0jzn
...
New Principal Appointed from January 2025 https://ow.ly/Lz2e50RRjtX ...
NEW HEAD OF CHRIST’S HOSPITAL
https://ow.ly/S31u50RQPk0
...
Eastbourne College pupil awarded national finance qualification with perfect score
https://ow.ly/H1Qj50RQP4c
...
New Head Announced for Queen Margaret’s School for Girls, York
https://ow.ly/GHF150RQOEg
...
VISIT TO KIMBOLTON SCHOOL BY THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER THE RT HON SIR JOHN MAJOR KG CH
https://ow.ly/up9m50RQOhG
...
Well done to everyone who joined David Walker, Director, BSA, in the “Head to the Castle” 5 mile run this morning! #iloveboarding #BSAConf2024 ...
Congratulations to Portia Putatunda, founder of the Planet Spiti Boarding School in a remote part of the Himalayas, who is our first winner of BSA’s wonderful new Emma Pattison Award for Compassionate Leadership. BSA was delighted to present Planet Spiti Boarding School with an Honorary Membership this year.
“Portia could be described as the ‘Mother Theresa’ of compassionate leadership in boarding. In running every aspect of a free boarding school for young children high in the Himalayas, Portia is embodying so many things, of which compassion is a shining characteristic. Her example is humbling and inspiring in equal measure.”
The Emma Pattison Award for Compassionate Leadership has been introduced for 2024 in memory of former Epsom College Head, Emma Pattison, recognises an individual who consistently embodies compassion and kindness within their leadership role. The award exemplifies a person who fosters trust, contributes to team morale and makes a meaningful and positive impact on those around them.
hashtag#iloveboarding hashtag#BSAConf2024 Schoolblazer
...
School Golfers Crowned National Champions
https://ow.ly/j0Fp50RtA4G
...