Managing disputes between boarders

• Date: March 31, 2025
• Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm
• Cost: BSA Full Member – £135, BSA Affiliate Member – £170, Non-member – £270
• Audience: Boarding and pastoral staff, Deputy Heads, Heads of Boarding, all staff
• Platform: Zoom (online) – seminar

Course outline:

This course will look at some of the key tensions within a boarding house which may lead to disputes – either ‘in the moment’ or ongoing. We will also discuss the issue of ‘relational aggression’ and how to identify and manage this.

Training topics will include:

• Identifying types and causes of disputes and relationship problems between boarders.
• Setting a positive boarding house culture.
• When to intervene in a dispute.
• Relational aggression.

Learning outcomes:

• Be able to identify better disputes between boarders.
• Form new ideas for how to set a positive boarding culture to enable early intervention.
• Understand the concept of ‘relational aggression’ and develop strategies to combat it within your school.

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Speaker:

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.