Outduction – preparing students for life after school
🏷️ From £175
🎧 Deputies, pastoral leads, boarding staff
📍 Online
Course outline:
As educators and pastoral staff, we invest significant time and care in inducting students into our schools. Yet when it comes time for them to leave, are we providing the same level of structured support to prepare them?
This seminar is designed to help boarding and academic staff understand the unique challenges and concerns faced by senior students as they prepare to leave the familiar environment of school and enter the next stage of their lives. By exploring these transitional needs, participants will begin to develop a practical, tailored ‘outduction’ programme – ensuring that students are equipped with the emotional resilience, life skills, and awareness necessary to thrive beyond the school gates.
Through interactive sessions, group discussions, and the application of key psychological frameworks, the day will empower schools to create meaningful, student-centred strategies that support the long-term wellbeing and success of leavers.
Key topics:
- Understanding post-school needs: exploring the real-life challenges students may face, including time management, relationships, finances, and independence
- The six human needs model: understanding student behaviours through a psychological lens and identifying how schools can provide stability during transition
- Creating an ‘outduction’ programme: collaborative group work to begin designing a bespoke plan tailored to your school’s context and student cohort
- Sharing and refining ideas: a final session to consolidate and exchange ideas across groups, producing actionable plans to take away.
Learning outcomes:
- Deeper insight into the emotional and practical needs of senior students leaving school
- Greater understanding of the soft skills required to support student independence and wellbeing
- A draft, school-specific ‘outduction’ programme ready for further development and implementation.
