Creating great boarding spaces
🏷️ From £175
🎧 Deputy heads, heads of boarding, boarding staff, pastoral leads
📍 Online
✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass
Course outline:
This interactive seminar will explore current trends and best practices in boarding house design, offering valuable insights into how schools can enhance their residential provision in a practical and cost-effective way. Whether you are planning a full refurbishment or seeking small improvements, this session will help position your boarding environment in line with sector expectations and pupil needs.
This seminar will examine what makes a boarding house truly effective – from layout and decoration to furnishings and student experience. Drawing on real-world examples, the session will provide inspiration from across the sector, offering a chance to reflect on your current facilities and identify areas for improvement.
Key topics:
- The role of the physical environment in wellbeing, recruitment, and retention
- Room-by-room review, including entrances and welcome zones; corridors, walls, and noticeboards; social spaces and communal areas; bedrooms and bathrooms
- Creative, budget-friendly suggestions for enhancing existing spaces
- Cost-effective suppliers and reliable products suited to boarding schools.
Learning outcomes:
- Greater awareness of sector-wide boarding facilities trends, standards, and expectations
- Practical ideas for upgrading boarding houses with minimal investment
- An improved ability to assess your own school’s provision and identify key areas for development
- Access to recommended suppliers for good value furnishings, materials, and equipment.
Speaker:
Robin Fletcher, CEO, BSA
Robin was a journalist, editor and communications director before joining BSA in 2014. Robin is a member of the Department for Education’s Systems Partnership Oversight Board. Outside BSA, he is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University, a Governor of Rugby School, President of the Rugbeian Society and a non-executive director of the national trade body Make UK.
