South West Forum

Name: South West Forum
Start: 2025-11-24T10:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-24T13:30:00+00:00
Location: Dean Close House

Monday 24 November, 10:30 am - 1:30 pm

🏷️ Free of charge
🎧 Heads, deputy heads, boarding staff
📍 Dean Close House

Forum outline:

BSA regional forums are FREE for all staff at BSA member schools, and are a valuable opportunity to come together once a term to share experiences, exchange ideas, and discuss current issues affecting boarding.

Designed to foster regional collaboration, these forums offer a supportive and informal space for staff to raise questions, explore best practice, and benefit from peer insight. Whether you’re a Head of Boarding, Houseparent, Matron, or part of the wider pastoral team, the sessions are an excellent way to stay informed, connected, and inspired.

While many of our forums are held online for accessibility, some meetings take place in person to offer more opportunities for networking and relationship-building.

Why attend?

Stay up to date with developments in the sector
Discuss local challenges and share region-specific insights
Contribute to a community of practice focused on continuous improvement
Ask questions, seek advice, and offer support to peers
Hear updates from BSA and guest contributors.

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Speakers:

Areti Bizior, Warden, Dean Close School, BSA South West Forum Chair

Areti became the fourth Warden of the Dean Close Foundation in September 2025.

With over twenty years of experience in both state and independent sectors, in the UK and internationally, Areti has held a variety of leadership roles, including Head at Luckley House School and Deputy Head at Downe House. Alongside these roles she has served as a Governor in both state and independent schools, as an ISI inspector and also as member of the Executive Committee of the Boarding Schools Association. She has an MBA from University College, London and is currently completing an MSc at the University of Oxford.

David Walker, Executive Director, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB

David is the Executive Director, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB and joined the BSA group in August 2023. He has over 20 years’ experience in boarding schools and has worked in a range of schools in the UK and Africa, alongside being a prep school governor and a trustee of a MAT. Before taking up his post at the BSA, David was Deputy Head Pastoral at a large co-ed independent school in the South-East.