BSA – Moving from boarding practitioner to boarding leadership / management: Making the transition

• Date: May 10, 2023
• Time: 10:00 – 12:00
• Cost: Full Member – £100, Affiliate Member – £150, Non-member – £200
• Audience: Assistant Houseparents / House Parents / Anyone who is going to manage a team for the first time. Suitable for boarding schools across the world. Both Prep and Senior boarding.
• Platform: Zoom (online) – Seminar

Course outline

We nearly all start at the bottom of the ladder, managing ourselves and the tasks we have to perform. But sooner or later great boarding staff want to move up the ladder and take on more responsibility but this often means managing a small team of people with very little training or experience. Often in a boarding school that team can contain, close friends, staff who are very focussed on other areas in the school or even a senior member of staff.

This seminar will look at how to manage and step up to the first rungs of leading and managing a boarding house and the various aspects of increased responsibility that goes with your promotion.

Training topics will include:

• Effective management of People, Polices, Procedures and Resources
• Leadership / management styles and developing skill set in your particular situation
• Effectively managing change and how to deal with some of the hurdles and challenges that may cross your path.

Learning outcomes:

• Delegates will have a better understanding of what Middle Management entails and strategies for dealing with the new challenges that they will face along the way.
• Delegates will leave the seminar with a higher level of confidence and understanding of the role ahead of them.

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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.