Boarding box set – Wellbeing and staff support

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🎧 Deputy Head Pastoral, Head of Boarding, Senior Boarding Practitioners, Houseparents
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BSA’s Boarding box set series is designed to give boarding staff and school leaders a broad overview of a range of key boarding-related topics. This series is ideal for staff moving into senior positions in boarding, preparing for Deputy Headship and consolidating their understanding on the wider sector ‘headlines’.

Course Outline

This session in BSA’s Boarding Box Set series explores wellbeing and staff support within boarding, equipping current and aspiring senior leaders with a strategic overview of how to foster a healthy, resilient, and high-performing boarding community. Designed for those moving into senior roles or preparing for Deputy Headship, the course examines sector expectations, safeguarding responsibilities, staff culture, workload management, and effective systems of pastoral support. Participants will reflect on current boarding “headlines,” consider emerging wellbeing challenges, and develop practical strategies to support staff professionally and personally, ensuring sustainable leadership and positive outcomes for boarders.

Training Topics 

• The strategic importance of staff wellbeing in sustaining safe, effective boarding provision.
• Creating a supportive boarding culture that promotes psychological safety and professional trust.
• Recognising and responding to stress, burnout, and mental health concerns among boarding staff.
• Implementing supervision, appraisal, and professional development systems that strengthen staff resilience.
• Aligning wellbeing practice with safeguarding, inspection frameworks, and sector expectations.

Learning Outcomes 

• Understand the key factors influencing staff wellbeing in a boarding environment.
• Identify early signs of stress and burnout and respond with appropriate leadership strategies.
• Evaluate existing staff support systems and identify areas for improvement.
• Develop practical approaches to embedding a culture of wellbeing within boarding teams.
• Articulate how effective staff support contributes to improved outcomes for boarders and whole-school performance.

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Andrew Lewin, BSA Senior Consultant

Andrew Lewin was International Director at the BSA before moving into a consultant role. His broad remit offers a range of services to boarding schools worldwide. He has considerable experience working with boarding school staff all around the world, as he has lived and worked in boarding schools for much of his life.

Andrew has set up his own company in 2020, Project 1000 Ltd, that focuses on educational consultancy and resilience coaching. He is a WRAW Master Practitioner, trained by the Wellbeing Project, and offers coaching, diagnostic assessments, workshops and seminars. He is currently working as a Director of Development in an independent school and is also Education Development Director for Performance Learning and an IAPS Consultant. Away from the world of education, he is a director of WASP, S&SWGC and TEAM Removals.

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