BAISIS – Top tips for pre-arrival engagement with international families
9 April 2025 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
- Date: April 09, 2025
- Time: 12:30 – 13:30
- Cost: BAISIS member – £55, BSA member – £75, Member additional attendee – £25, Non-member – £110
- Audience: Admissions, pastoral/boarding staff, Deputy Head Pastoral, International Student Coordinator, SLT/SMT
- Platform: Zoom (online)
Course Outline:
Induction and integration doesn’t have to wait until your students are on site! This webinar will delve into essential strategies to meet sponsor requirements and begin creating a caring relationship with new international students, and their families. Join this webinar to enhance your skills and school’s welcome to contribute to the successful integration of international students.
Training topics will include:
- Creating a warm welcome: personalised welcome materials, induction programmes to ease transition, fostering a sense of belonging
- Understanding your sponsor requirements: ensuring compliance with UKVI, establishing effective communication, collating necessary information
- Effective communication strategies: methods of communication, establishing boundaries, providing language support
- Pastoral essentials: identifying emotional and social needs, introducing the pastoral care system, providing meaningful induction.
Learning outcomes:
- Create a welcoming and inclusive school environment before arrival
- Strengthen communication channels to foster collaboration and increase understanding of language and cultural limitations/variations
- Enhance sponsor and pastoral practices to support the wellbeing of international students whilst demonstrating a culture of compliance and understanding of the UKVI system.
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.
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