Outduction – preparing students for life after school
🏷️ From £175
🎧 Deputies, pastoral leads, boarding staff
📍 Online
Course outline:
As educators and pastoral staff, we invest significant time and care in inducting students into our schools. Yet when it comes time for them to leave, are we providing the same level of structured support to prepare them?
This seminar is designed to help boarding and academic staff understand the unique challenges and concerns faced by senior students as they prepare to leave the familiar environment of school and enter the next stage of their lives. By exploring these transitional needs, participants will begin to develop a practical, tailored ‘outduction’ programme – ensuring that students are equipped with the emotional resilience, life skills, and awareness necessary to thrive beyond the school gates.
Through interactive sessions, group discussions, and the application of key psychological frameworks, the day will empower schools to create meaningful, student-centred strategies that support the long-term wellbeing and success of leavers.
Key topics:
- Understanding post-school needs: exploring the real-life challenges students may face, including time management, relationships, finances, and independence
- The six human needs model: understanding student behaviours through a psychological lens and identifying how schools can provide stability during transition
- Creating an ‘outduction’ programme: collaborative group work to begin designing a bespoke plan tailored to your school’s context and student cohort
- Sharing and refining ideas: a final session to consolidate and exchange ideas across groups, producing actionable plans to take away.
Learning outcomes:
- Deeper insight into the emotional and practical needs of senior students leaving school
- Greater understanding of the soft skills required to support student independence and wellbeing
- A draft, school-specific ‘outduction’ programme ready for further development and implementation.
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.
