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SUMMARY:BSA Autumn Diploma in Boarding Practice – Leadership
DESCRIPTION:  \nWe offer a self-funding route for all courses.  We can arrange payment plans for manageable monthly amounts to make training accessible and affordable.  To find out more\, please e-mail Liz McDonald at liz.mcdonald@bsagroup.org.uk \n\nDiploma in Boarding Practice – Leadership 2025-2026 \n‘As a Head of Boarding\, I enrolled on the course with the aim of furthering my knowledge and experience in residential life; the course did not disappoint. The study days provided a great opportunity to meet fellow boarding colleagues and discuss areas of best practice and engage in discussions on contemporary topics. The assignments were varied and included assessed presentations and written work. Each assignment had a clear success criteria and a BSA tutor was on hand to provided support and guidance if required.   \nIf you are a practitioner with a number of years of experience and looking to further your qualifications and knowledge base in boarding\, I can highly recommend this course.’ \n– A Diploma level course for senior boarding staff \nThis is a taught course with three study days and three assignments \nThis module is comprised of three tutor-led study days featuring guest speakers\, interactive morning and afternoon sessions. Breakout groups allow for discussion and time with the course tutors. \nBSA Diploma in Boarding Practice – Leadership \nThe Autumn Diploma is fully booked\, you can still reserve a place on the January Diploma\nTO BEING YOU QUALIFICATION IN JANUARY  CLICK HERE \nBSA January Diploma in Boarding Practice – Leadership \n\nDay 1: January 26\, 2026\nDay 2: March 16\, 2026\nDay 3: June 10\, 2026\n\nNumbers on Diploma courses will be limited. Please apply early. \nOur preferred platform for online training is Zoom. Timings for each study day – 10.00 to 15.45 \nAudience:\nThis course is aimed at senior boarding staff.  Candidates may have previously completed the BSA  Advanced Certificate Course and/or being suitably experienced to benefit from this leadership course. \nBSA Diploma in Boarding Practice (Leadership) \nThe BSA Diploma course is designed as a strategic course for senior and experienced school staff looking to gain knowledge of key leadership and management skills required to lead the boarding in their school. \nCourse Outline \n• Strategic aspects of boarding\, including the Statutory Framework \n• Leading the team – how to get the best out of the Boarding Team \n• Managing quality – evaluation and preparing for inspection \n• Managing conflict – a key facet of the senior staff role \n• Staff development  – appraisal and performance management \n• Facing the media – Guest Speaker Steve Dyson\, Dyson Media Ltd \n• Marketing – A whole team approach \nHow is the course organised? \nThe course is organised around a combination of three intensive study days which contain a variety of teaching methods and opportunities to learn in different ways\, which include short lectures\, presentations and discussions led by students\, together with group problem solving exercises and case studies. Group discussion is a particularly important aspect of this course\, enabling delegates to look at the theory in light of their own practical experience. Students will be encouraged to contribute ideas\, opinions and questions\, taking responsibility for their own learning\, whilst contributing to the learning of the group as a whole. The course is run by senior members of the BSA staff and will feature a serving Head of a boarding school and each delegate will have an experienced BSA Tutor who attends the study days. \nCourse Assessment \nAll delegates undertake a SWOT analysis of the boarding provision in their school in which they evaluate\, in detail\, different aspects and contribute towards the development of the provision. From this they undertake three assignments. The first highlights an area for development and they follow this with a 4-minute presentation delivered to the BSA staff and tutors\, as well as other delegates. The final assignment brings together all the work in a 3\,000- 4\,000 word active research project. \nBSA Diploma in Boarding Practice – Leadership \nThe Autumn Diploma is fully booked\, you can still reserve a place on the January Diploma\nTO BEING YOU QUALIFICATION IN JANUARY  CLICK HERE \nBSA January Diploma in Boarding Practice – Leadership \n\nDay 1: January 26\, 2026\nDay 2: March 16\, 2026\nDay 3: June 10\, 2026\n\nNumbers on Diploma courses will be limited. Please apply early. \nOur preferred platform for online training is Zoom. Timings for each study day – 10.00 to 15.45
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/bsa-spring-diploma-in-boarding-practice-leadership-4/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Accredited Training
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SUMMARY:Understanding and supporting ADHD
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £135\n🎧 Inclusion leads\, pastoral leads\, boarding staff\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nCourse outline: \nThis seminar will unpack the realities of ADHD and its commonly co-occurring conditions\, moving beyond labels to explore the underlying traits that influence learning\, behaviour\, and social interaction. By focusing on developmental differences\, delegates will gain practical insight into how best to support children and young people with ADHD in both academic and boarding environments. \nTraining topics will include the neuroscience behind ADHD\, how ADHD presents as a developmental difference\, and an introduction to the SF3R approach: Structure\, Flexibility\, Rapport\, Relationships\, and Resilience. \nLearning outcomes: \n\nA deeper understanding of how children with ADHD experience and respond to the world around them\nGreater awareness of how ADHD affects learning and socialisation\nPractical strategies to inform and enhance support for pupils with ADHD in boarding schools\nFresh ideas and proven frameworks to guide inclusive\, child-centred practice.”\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker:  \nFin O’Regan\, Consultant\, Trainer and Author \nFin is one of the leading behaviour and learning specialists in the UK. He is currently an ADHD and Neurodiversity Consultant and Trainer for a number of schools and organisations\, an Associate Lecturer for Leicester University\, NASEN\, the Helen Arkell Charity and the Institute of Education. \nHe was the Headmaster of the Centre Academy School\, regarded as the first specialist school within the UK for children with ADHD/ODD from 1996 -2002. Prior to that\, he was a Deputy Head Teacher\, the Head of the Science Department and a Science/PE teacher in London\, Newcastle and Washington DC \nHe is a current member of the Special Education Consortium\, the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee\, and The London CDC and is a council member of CReSTeD. \nFin is an internationally acclaimed presenter has presented over 2000 seminars throughout Europe\, the Middle East\, the Far East\, Australia\, New Zealand and North America and has published over 10 books on learning\, behaviour and socialisation issues.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/understanding-and-supporting-adhd/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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