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SUMMARY:Annual Conference for Heads - Boarding perspectives: Learning within\, leading beyond
DESCRIPTION:Well thought out sessions. Relevant and current. A great opportunity to meet with like-minded people.\n\n\n\nDate: May 06-07\, 2025\nTime: 09:00 – 17:00\nAudience: Heads\nCost: Included in 2024/25 membership for UK full members; £750 for international full members; £1\,125 for affiliates and day schools; £1\,500 for non-members\nVenue: York Racecourse\, Knavesmire Road\, YO23 1EX\nAccommodation: Discounted rooms available via Roomex – we anticipate most delegates will stay at The Grand or the Marriott (‘Delta’)\nConference guide: Click here to download\n\n\nHeadline sponsor:  \n \n\nVIEW THE PROGRAMME  \nRSVP NOW \n\n\n\n Add to calendar\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re looking forward to welcoming Heads from our member schools to our Annual Conference for Heads on May 06-07\, 2025. \nThis year\, all UK full member schools receive one delegate place; an RSVP is essential to confirm your booking. \nOur two-day conference will bring together heads to learn\, share and debate all things boarding\, including the latest challenges and opportunities for leaders. \nChaired by Dr Chris Pyle\, Head\, Lancaster Royal Grammar\, the theme is ‘Boarding perspectives: Learning within\, leading beyond’. Topics will include global trends in boarding\, managing stress and anxiety\, and the future of leadership. Full programme details will be announced shortly. \nThe event also includes the BSA Annual Awards and Conference Dinner\, which will take place on May 06\, 2025 following a drinks reception with musical entertainment from St Peter’s York. \n\nA brilliant conference.\n\n\n\n\nConference Chair:\n\n \nChris Pyle\, Head\, Lancaster Royal Grammar School \nChris is Chair of the BSA State Boarding Forum. He has been Head of Lancaster Royal Grammar School since 2012.  The school has grown significantly over that period and has welcomed Sixth Form girls as boarders and day students. It has been judged Outstanding in all categories in three successive Ofsted boarding inspections. Chris was previously Deputy Head of the Perse School\, Cambridge. Before becoming a teacher he completed a PhD in Geography at Cambridge University and also worked in the water industry. He holds the NPQH\, is currently studying for the NPQEL in school leadership\, and is Executive Lead of the NNW Maths Hub. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society\, and regularly writes resources for schools on natural hazards and environmental change. \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\nAdam Beeson\, Strategic Enrollment Director\, New Summit Academy and The Bridge – Costa Rica \nWith nearly two decades of international school teaching and leadership experience in Europe and the Americas\, Adam is an educator with a passion for creating meaningful relationships with learners and facilitating experiences that lead to cross-cultural understanding and global competencies. ​From 2015-2020\, Adam served in a number of roles within the Academic Department at NSA. He is actively involved in the wider field of international school education\, adding his insight as a presenter at the International Baccalaureate (IB) Global Conference of the Americas\, serving as an IB Examiner and member of the International Schools Anti-Discrimination Taskforce\, and contributing to various publications\, including the Wellbeing in International Schools Magazine\, for which he was also a founding member of the editorial team. Adam is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar\, an Austrian-based think tank and policy centre\, and serves in a volunteer capacity as Community and Outreach Coordinator for the Global Citizenship Alliance. \n\n \nJonathan Bowman-Perks MBE\, CEO’s Trusted Leadership Advisor \nJonathan has learnt from the brightest and the best CEOs\, Chairs\, Principals\, Heads\, Vice Chancellors\, Generals\, Partners and Managing Directors. His forthcoming third book\, “The CEO’s Compass: Navigating Teams Through Turbulent Times”\, does what it says on the tin. As a Leadership Advisor and Coach to world-class CEOs and Top Teams\, there are few messy problems or challenges that he has not yet come across. He has the privilege of meeting fascinating leaders\, Politicians\, Special Forces Soldiers\, Generals\, Explorers\, Olympians and Entrepreneurs. As host of the Inspiring Leadership Podcast (rated in the global top 1.5%)\, he draws on their personal stories and wisdom to help others navigate the least-worst outcomes to survive and thrive in the turbulent leadership world. Jonathan was Assistant to the Head of the British Army\, Chief of Staff of the Army’s largest Brigade and commanded his Company on three operational tours. He was a leader in PwC\, IBM and as Penna PLC’s MD of Board and Executive Coaching. He was awarded the MBE for his services to leadership in training UN leaders who helped prevent the East Timor massacre. \n\n\n\nGina Buckney\, Founder and Director\, Your People Power \n\n\nGina is a 2 x TEDx Global Speaker and has been pioneering large-scale corporate change for 20 years. Gina combines personal experience working in high-pressured environments alongside science-led and solution-driven programmes. Some of her early positions include Head of UK Retail Customer Services for BT and IT Transformation Programme Manager for Lloyd’s Banking Group. At 27 she became the youngest BT Contract Director and was awarded the largest managed service banking contract with a value of over £400m and a global team of 450. \n\n\n\nBen Collingwood\, Partner\, Moore Barlow \nBen specialises in advising independent schools and other charities on wide ranging areas of education law\, with particular focus on reputation issues\, pastoral\, safeguarding\, historic abuse allegations\, SEN\, exclusions\, parent/pupil complaints\, data protection\, parent contracts\, admissions and staff matters of all types. \nHe has written and spoken widely on issues facing the independent schools sector\, providing comment in The Times\, The Guardian\, The Lawyer and Law Society’s Gazette and at the national conferences and training programmes for the various associations that support independent schools including BSA\, ISBA\, HMC\, IAPS and AGBIS. \nHe lives with his wife and three children in West Sussex. He has been a devoted surfer since his childhood and he loves to spend as much of his free time as possible in the sea and walking their pointers with his family. \n\n\n\n\n\nJamie Daniels\, Director\, PRS Training \nJamie has been interested in and teaching self-defence and martial arts for thirty years\, culminating in learning and instructing Krav Maga. In that time he has seen again and again how it’s not martial arts people need\, rather it is some simple physical techniques and a healthy dose of understanding as to what constitutes a dangerous situation\, how to spot one developing\, and what to do about it. As well as a history in the security industry\, Jamie has been working in the education sector for over 15 years. This has also helped Jamie understand the pressures and demands that young people face today. \n\n\n\n\nJane Gandee\, Head\, St Swithun’s School \nJane began her teaching career in 1993 having dabbled briefly in accountancy after a degree in French and Spanish at Girton College\, Cambridge. She taught languages at Lord Wandsworth College and Oakham School before becoming head of Spanish and then head of languages at Queenswood School. In 2005\, she became director of studies at City of London School for Girls and she took up her current post in 2010. Jane is a keen sportswoman\, having represented Cambridge at athletics and cross country and captained the university women’s football team. She still runs competitively when time allows and particularly enjoys running with colleagues at BSA conferences. \n\n \nJim Lawless\, CEO\, SYMMETRY and Bestselling Author  \nBeginning his career as a solicitor\, Jim now helps clients adjust to the future of work and the constant rate of change in modern society. He has worked with the likes of ITV\, BP\, Fiat\, Virgin\, Vitality\, Xerox\, Microsoft\, Unilever and Apple. Author of “Taming Tigers: Do Things You Never Thought You Could”\, Jim has developed several rules to change a business or an individual’s life around. These rules have been tried and tested by Jim himself\, by becoming a televised jockey in 12 months and taking the British freediving record. Jim was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in recognition of his business writing. \n\n \nCarrie Herbert MBE\, Chair and Founder\, Red Balloon Learning \nCarrie trained as a teacher before emigrating to Australia\, returned to the UK in the eighties to complete a Master’s Degree at UEA and a PhD at Cambridge. Carrie worked as a consultant in equal opportunities before founding Red Balloon in 1996. She has written a number of books on the subject of bullying and harassment in schools and in the workplace. Carrie Herbert was Master of the WC of Cutlers from 2020-2022. \n\n \nGareth Jones\, Head\, Bilton Grange Prep  \nGareth has worked in prep boarding schools for over 25 years\, leading two over the last 10 years. Formerly a Housemaster and Director of Sport at the Dragon School\, Oxford\, he then became Head of St Andrew’s Prep\, Eastbourne before taking up his current role as Head of Bilton Grange Prep\, part of the Rugby School Group\, in September 2021. Gareth sits on the IAPS Pastoral Committee\, having also sat on their Sports Committee previously\, and has experience of governance in both the independent and state sectors. \n\nMark Lauder FTIOB\, Head\, Strathallan School \nMark began his teaching career at Shiplake College in Henley-on-Thames\, where he was Head of the History Department\, Resident Tutor and Master I/C of Rowing. He then headed to Oxford in 1999\, to become Head of History at St Edward’s School\, as well as a Housemaster. While there\, he continued with his rugby refereeing\, coaching U16s rugby and U15s rowing\, and ran the naval section of the CCF. In 2007\, Mark was appointed Deputy Headmaster and Head of Boarding at Felsted School\, where he maintained his coaching and teaching roles. It was from there\, in 2010\, that he headed north\, to take on the role of Headmaster at Ashville College in Harrogate. In 2017\, Mark moved to Strathallan School. \n\nGeoff Marsh\, Head of Frensham\, Frensham Schools \nGeoff has been Head of Frensham Schools for the past two years (coed P-6\, girls’ boarding and day 7-12). Prior to this he was Principal of the Riverina Anglican College in Wagga Wagga (coed K-12). Before going to Wagga Geoff was Deputy Head of Frensham Schools for 17 years. Geoff had a brief interlude helping run the Sydney 2000 Olympics for three years. Prior to this he worked as a physics and chemistry teacher at Chevalier College in Bowral for six years where he also worked in boys’ boarding. \n\nAlice Philips\, Head\, St Catherine’s\, Bramley  \nAlice Phillips was educated at Kendal High School for Girls and went on to read English at Newnham College\, Cambridge. After ten years as an English teacher\, and then Head of English at the Royal Masonic School\, Rickmansworth\, she moved on to Deputy Headship at Tormead School\, Guildford in 1993 and has been Headmistress of St Catherine’s\, Bramley\, an independent school for girls aged 4-18\, near Guildford\, since 2000. \n\nSimon Pither\, Director\, PRS Training \nSimon started martial arts at a local Judo club when he was 14. Ten years later he got his first instructor qualification and has been teaching martial arts and running self-defence courses ever since\, culminating in his current role as the President of the UK Sector of the European Federation of Krav Maga. While running courses for students\, teachers\, nurses\, community clubs\, charities and corporate organisations over the years\, it became apparent that everyone wished they had learned it earlier. \n\nGuy Schady-Beckett\, Director and Head of Research\, Next Step Education \nGuy has served as Director and Head of Research at Next Step Education Limited\n(Independent Schools Show & Bonas MacFarlane) since 2014. Previously he ran Drayson Beckett Limited\, a specialist education consultancy working long-term with schools and universities on business development (with a focus on digital\ntransition)\, market research and brand / product repositioning for 20 years. Prior to that he taught English at Windlesham and Durston House. He holds a PhD and an MA in History from Birkbeck\, University of London\, with distinction honours\, as well as a second MA from University of the Arts London. His BA was in English from UCL. \n\nDr Heather Tracy\, Executive Director & Co-Founder\, New Summit Academy and The Bridge – Costa Rica \nHeather studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, earning a Master of Education in Human Development & Psychology. In 2014\, Heather completed her Doctorate in K-12 Leadership with a dissertation about the importance of academic enablers for at-risk adolescents to build resilience and learn and live more effectively and efficiently. Previously\, Heather researched Math and English support programmes for the MCAS in Boston Public Schools\, taught English as a Second Language to teenagers and adults\, taught college reading and writing courses\, and served one year as a volunteer English teacher in the Costa Rican public school system. Being a part of the founding team of New Summit Academy in 2004 has been the highlight of her career\, and she feels blessed to be able to be a part of the team creating innovative\, holistic\, and quality education for unique young men. Heather co-authored Supportive Immersion theory (2016) and articulated PROPS skills as the 21st century skill set needed to thrive in today’s world. \n\n \nFiona Boulton OBE\, Director of Independent Schools\, United Learning \nFiona became Director of Independent Schools in 2022. She joined United Learning in 1995 when it was the Church Schools Company. She was Head of Guildford High School from 2002 – 2022 and is currently Executive Head there. Guildford High became a Teaching School in 2013 and Fiona was appointed an NLE\, leading the United Learning Teaching School Alliance from 2013 – 2020. She has a variety of governance roles; she is an Associate Director of Cumbria University\, on the governing body of Epsom College and St Ives Prep School and a member of the ‘Learning Partners Academy Trust’. Fiona is on the Advisory Board of the School Partnerships Alliance and has helped to establish the West Surrey Partnership of state and independent schools. She was Chair of HMC in 2019-2020\, and on the Advisory Council of the Institute for Ethical AI in Education (IEAIED) between 2018 – 2021. In 2023\, Fiona was awarded an OBE for services to education. \n\n \nEmma Goldsmith\, Head\, Dragon School Oxford \nEmma is the twelfth person to lead Dragon School Oxford\, a co-educational prep school\, since it was founded in 1877 and the first female to do so. Emma joined the Dragon after a successful few years as Head of Winchester House Prep. Emma taught at Oakham and Rugby Schools and went on to become Deputy Head at Bloxham School where she also worked as Housemistress\, setting up the first girls’ boarding house. Emma is a board member of IAPS. She is an experienced governor having been on the board of Cheltenham College and is currently a governor of Wellington College and Gordonstoun. She is also host of the podcast ‘The Educational DilEmma’. \n\n \nNick Wergan\, Global Education Director\, Inspired Education Group \nNick joined Inspired in 2020 and is now the Chief Executive Officer for the UK. This followed six years as Headteacher at Steyning Grammar School. Nick was elected Chair of the BSA in 2019\, appointed National Leader of Education by the UK Department for Education\, and founded the Pavilion and Downs Teaching School Alliance. Following a successful international career in Investment Banking (leading Emerging European Equity teams at US\, UK\, and European investment banks\, including Morgan Stanley\, Merrill Lynch\, and HSBC)\, Nick began his career in education following his teacher training at Pembroke College\, Oxford in 2004. Presently\, Nick is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts\, a winning recipient of the 2007 UK National Teaching Award and holds an MA in Education Studies (University of Sussex). \n\n \nLeo Winkley\, Head\, Shrewsbury School \nLeo began his teaching career as Head of Religious Studies at Ardingly College (1994-99) where he also looked after a Lower Sixth boarding house. From there\, he moved to The Cheltenham Ladies’ College as Head of Religious Studies (1999-2004) where the subject became the most popular A Level choice. In 2004\, he was appointed Deputy Head of Bedales School (2004-10) where he was responsible for boarding and pastoral care. He then spent eight years as Head Master of St Peter’s School in York. A passionate advocate of boarding\, Leo was Chairman of BSA between 2016 and 2017. He believes strongly in community engagement and partnership work\, chairing the City of York Independent State Schools Partnership (2017-18) and sitting on the Independent Schools’ Council expert group ‘Schools Together’. \n\n Joanna Lada-Walicki\, Partner\, Moore Barlow \nHead of the Schools Team\, Joanna is recognised nationally as a leading adviser on complex and high profile employment and pastoral issues that impact schools\, including allegations of abuse (against staff and child-on-child)\, other safeguarding issues as well as staff departures within the senior leadership team.  Joanna also has niche expertise on the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS)\, including on issues arising from claims from Teachers’ Pensions for arrears of contributions. She is frequently requested to speak at industry sector events and has written many articles on a range of issues. \n\n \nJulie Robinson\, Chief Executive Officer\, Independent Schools Council (ISC) \nJulie was head of Ardingly College Junior School and then Vinehall Prep School in Sussex before becoming education and training director for the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS). At IAPS\, she served on the Standing Group of Teachers Associations and the Independent Schools Examination Board. Julie also chaired the Independent Schools Council’s Cross Association Leadership Group. In 2015\, Julie became General Secretary of the ISC\, representing schools across the independent education sector. She serves on the School Partnerships Oversight Board for the Department for Education promoting independent-state school partnership work. Julie liaises with influencers in education across schools\, government and the media\, serving the interests of ISC constituent associations and member schools \n\n \nBen Mason\, CEO\, globalbridge \nFollowing 16 years in teaching across the state and independent sectors\, Ben founded globalbridge\, a pioneering EdTech platform\, to level the playing field of opportunity and help schools evidence student outcomes via a multimedia learner profile. globalbridge was created to support how schools evidence student talent and skills by enabling them to utilise the digital media advances in the emerging talent recruitment space. Listed in the Business Cloud UK EdTech top 50 for most innovative education technology creators\, Ben himself was also listed in The Sunday Times top 100 entrepreneurs. Ben and globalbridge co-lead a number of OECD ‘Future of Education and Skills 2030’ projects. One looking at how educational outcomes can be more inclusive and equitable for all learners. \n\n \nAlex Foreman\, Principal\, Duke of York’s Royal Military School  \nAlex gained his Theology & Philosophy degree from Surrey University\, initially teaching PE and Religious Education at Uppingham School in Rutland. He became Head of Year at an all-boys Leicester city comprehensive and then went on to become Assistant Headteacher and later Headteacher\, at King’s School\, an MoD school based in Germany. Alex joined the Duke of York’s Royal Military School in 2017. He has an indestructible attachment to Leicester Tigers and highlights of the year are playing the pupils’ First XIs at cricket and hockey\, where he still thinks ‘he’s got it!’. \n\n \nKarl Hearn\, Boarding Consultant\, Noble + Eaton \nNoble + Eaton is an education design consultancy based in London. At Noble + Eaton\, Karl works closely with boarding schools to reimagine and reshape their environments into Thriving Spaces™\, emphasising how physical space can enhance student outcomes. With a deep understanding of the dynamics of boarding life\, he has a keen eye for identifying hidden potential within existing spaces—transforming underutilised areas into purposeful\, student-centred environments. His work bridges strategy and design\, helping schools align their physical settings with USPs and evolving educational and wellbeing priorities. Having recently led the ‘State of Boarding Spaces’ research project Karl shared his insights at the Future of Boarding Spaces Conference\, contributing to discussions on the future of boarding environments. By combining practical expertise with visionary thinking\, Karl supports schools in creating spaces that foster a strong sense of belonging and academic growth—unlocking the full value of their environments for students and staff alike. \n\n \nMartin Reader FTIOB\, Senior Advisor\, Saxton Bampfylde \nMartin is a former Head of Cranleigh & Wellington Schools who now works as a consultant. He served as BSA Chair in 2018-19. He is a Fellow of the RSA\, Emeritus Fellow of the BSA and Trustee of the BSA Foundation. \n  \n  \n\n \nEmma Hattersley\, Partner and Head of Schools Practice\, Saxton Bampfylde \nEmma joined Saxton Bampfylde as a consultant in 2022. Emma worked in a variety of educational settings for more than three decades. She has experience of day and boarding schools\, co-educational and single sex\, prep and senior. Emma was Head of Godolphin School between 2014 and 2022. Prior to joining Godolphin\, Emma was Housemistress at Canford School and then moved to Sherborne Girls to take up a Deputy Head position. Emma has examined for OCR and the ABRSM and is a Governor at Fairley House School and Port Regis. She has chaired the HMC Inspection sub-committee\, served as an inspector for ISI and is a former member of the ISI Educational Advisory Forum. \n\n \nDavid Woodgate\, Chief Executive\, Independent Schools Bursars Association (ISBA) \nDavid was appointed Chief Executive of ISBA in 2016. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of the Institute of Financial Accountants from 2007-2015 after which he spent a year as the Strategy Consultant to the Institute of Public Accountants in Australia. David qualified as a Barrister before moving into the City\, holding several senior management and executive positions in the National Westminster Bank and the Royal Bank of Scotland. He ran an outsourcing business and a specialist consultancy providing market intelligence and competitor analysis. He completed an MBA at Warwick University Business School. A former Chief Executive of the Institute of Administrative Management\, he also holds a postgraduate diploma in Charity Management from the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and South Bank University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts\, a Chartered Banker\, a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights. David is also a former Chairman of Governors of an HMC school and a Governor of the City of London School. \n\nSpeakers from the BSA Team: \nKate Hollyer MTIOB\, Executive Director (Legal)\, BSA Group & Director (Solicitor)\, BSA Legal \nKate is Legal and Public Affairs Director of BSA Group and Director of BSA Legal Services Ltd. As a qualified solicitor with more than 10 years’ experience advising clients on UK immigration law\, Kate assists members with all immigration and safeguarding legal matters. Prior to joining BSA in 2022 Kate was Partner and Head of Department at a leading full-service UK law firm. Having resided in state\, preparatory and senior school boarding houses since 2014 with her Housemaster husband\, Kate has a unique perspective of boarding life. \n\n \nBethan Hudson MTIOB\, Executive Director\, Consultancy and Director\, BAISIS/HIEDA \nBethan joined the BSA team as Training Manager in September 2017. Bethan has worked in two independent boarding schools in the UK and Switzerland\, the latter as Housemistress to 36 pupils. Following her time in Switzerland\, she was a Pastoral Manager for an inner-city state academy before working in the charity sector for Debrett’s running the ‘Debrett’s Foundation’ training programme. \nIn her role\, Bethan plans and manages all Day Seminars\, Conferences\, INSET and Consultancy\, as well as being Director of BAISIS. She believes boarding can be a positive force for young people and in order to fully support their needs staff can never learn too much. As such she is passionate about the CPD BSA delivers to our pastoral communities in the UK and worldwide. \n\n \nAileen Kane FTIOB\, Chief Operating Officer\, BSA Group \nAileen is COO of BSA Group\, and the Director of SACPA (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association). Aileen leads operations at BSA providing guidance and training and works closely with government departments\, local authorities and other agencies to support members. She heads up the group’s work to find places for refugee children escaping from conflict countries and is also a trustee for a children’s charity. \n\nDavid Walker FTIOB\, Executive Director\, Boarding & Education and Director\, BSA/TIOB \nDavid 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. \n\n \nDale Wilkins FTIOB\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance\, BSA Group \nDale joined the BSA in 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards\, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme\, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA\, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter\, and has developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI\, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards\, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit\, which he first produced in 2002\, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding. \nFor 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College\, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992\, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007\, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board. \n\n \nRobin Fletcher MTIOB\, CEO  \nRobin Fletcher is CEO of BSA Group\, comprising BAISIS (British Association of Independent Schools with International Students)\, BSA (Boarding Schools’ Association)\, BSA Legal\, HIEDA (Health in Education Association) SACPA (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association) and TIOB (The Institute of Boarding). A former journalist\, editor and communications director\, Robin is a non-executive director of the manufacturers’ trade body Make UK\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University. \n\nExhibiting and sponsorship: We are delighted to be able to offer sponsorship and exhibition opportunities at this event. For full details please reach out to Neil Rust\, Head of Commercial neil.rust@bsagroup.org.uk or Laura Brain\, Senior Commercial Consultant\, laura.brain@bsagroup.org.uk or call on +44 (0)207 798 1580. \n\nThank you for your incredible hard work and dedication to the conference. I had the best time ever!\n\nDrinks sponsor:  \n \n\nDinner sponsor: 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/annual-conference-for-heads-2/
LOCATION:York Racecourse\, Knavesmire Road\, YO23 1EX
CATEGORIES:Conference,In-person
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SUMMARY:BAISIS & BSA conference: Supporting international students
DESCRIPTION:Date: March 05\, 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 09:30 – 16:30\n\n\n\nCost: BAISIS/BSA member – £235\, Member additional attendee – £110\, Affiliate Member – £335\, Additional Affiliate Member Fee – £145\, Non-member – £470\n\n\n\nAudience: SMT/SLT\, EAL\, Marketing/admissions\, Agents\, Guardians\n\n\n\nPlatform: Zoom (online)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by: \n \n\nCourse Outline: \n\n\n\nJoin us for our annual conference focusing on the specific headlines around providing outstanding support for your international students. Our sessions will hear from experts on a range of subjects\, all supporting delegates staying at the cutting edge of international student care. \n\n\n\nThe conference will engage with all aspects of the international student journey with their school of choice\, from pre-recruitment through to promoting personal and academic development to end their studies successfully. \n\n\n\nAll sessions will welcome questions from delegates. \n\n\n\nTraining topics will include: \n\nInternational trends and international student recruitment in 2025\nBest practice in language policies in schools to support students\nGlobal health and wellbeing differences and how to support\nInternational provision and inspection\nPromoting cultural inclusion. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK NOW \nVIEW THE PROGRAMME \n\nProgramme: \n09:30 – 10:15 \nWelcome and conference open – International enrolment and perception snapshot\, February 2025 \nChair: Aileen Kane\, Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer\, BSA Group \nSpeaker:  \n\nBeth Hudson\, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director\, BAISIS\, BSA Group\nDavid Walker\, Executive Director Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB\, BSA Group\n\n10:30 – 11:30 \nInternational trends and international student recruitment in 2025: an agent view \nThis session will hear from a selection of BSA certified agents who will update delegates on current international trends around recruitment and interest in the UK market from their network and market. Our panel will speak to global competition\, and the appeal and challenges for the UK market for international families. \nChair: David Walker\, Executive Director Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB\, BSA Group \nSpeaker:  \n\nGeorgina Hanford\, Consultancy & Operations Manager\, The Independent Education Consultants \nFiona McKenzie\, Head of Education\, Carfax Education UAE\nNick Stevenson\, VP\, EMEAA\, ICEF\n\n11:45 – 12:30 \nNavigating global health and wellbeing  \nHealth and wellbeing beliefs and trends can vary significantly depending on cultural background. This session will hear from experienced practitioners working first-hand with international students on the key differences they see when supporting international students in UK schools\, from different medicines\, health thresholds\, to coping with stress and mental health concerns. This session will support practitioners across the school to increase their understanding of ‘normal’ cultural differences in health and wellbeing standards\, to more productively but sympathetically support our international students and their families whilst maintaining school standards\, process and policy. \nChair: Beth Hudson\, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director\, BAISIS\, BSA Group \nSpeaker: \n\nEmily Elliott\, Counsellor\, DLD College London\nGail Devereux\, Lead Nurse\, ACS Schools Group\n\n12:30 – 13:30 \nLunch \n13:30 – 14:15 \nCultural integration and celebration \nThis session will consider effective strategies to promote cultural integration across your setting\, in classrooms\, extra-curricular activities\, day houses and boarding houses. Striving for successful integration\, panellists will also share opportunities to effectively celebrate the cultural diversity an international community offers. \nChair: Beth Hudson\, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director\, BAISIS\, BSA Group \nSpeaker: \n\nEilidh Dickens (Cultural integration group)\, Fettes College\nHelen Rose\, Assistant Principal Welfare and Boarding\, The Worthgate School\n\n14:30 – 15:30 \nLanguages in school: policies\, perceptions and practices for supporting students \nDelegates will hear from Associate Professor Karen Forbes on her current research area and interests and how school language policies and approaches to school-wide multilingualism can impact learning outcomes. \nChair: David Walker\, Executive Director Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB\, BSA Group \nSpeakers: \n\nKaren Forbes\, Associate Professor (Second Language Education)\, University of Cambridge\n\n15:45 – 16:30 \nShowcasing your international provision through inspection \nPanellists on this session will share and reflect on their recent inspection experience\, offering delegates the opportunity to learn from these experiences and prepare for their own future inspection. The session will focus on how to demonstrate successes and efforts in catering for international students during the rigorous inspection process. \nChair: Dale Wilkins\, Executive Director Accredited/Compliance\, BSA Group \nSpeakers: \n\nSarah Bellotti\, Head\, Mill Hill International\nJames Kidd\, Principal\, DLD College London\n\nConference close \n\nSpeakers: \nKaren Forbes\, Associate Professor in Second Language Education\, University of Cambridge \nKaren Forbes is an Associate Professor in Second Language Education at the University of Cambridge. She previously taught French and Spanish in secondary schools in England and has also taught English as a foreign language in a school in Spain and at a university in China. Karen’s current research is in the field of multilingualism in education and she has been involved in projects on language learning strategies\, supporting EAL learners in the classroom and multilingual identity. \n\n \nSarah Bellotti\, Head\, Mill Hill International   \nSarah was elected BAISIS Chair in January 2022\, having served as Deputy Chair since November 2020. Sarah started her career in education at an international school in Rome\, Italy and then returned to the UK to take up a post at King’s Ely where she later became Director of King’s Ely International. Since 2014\, Sarah has worked at Mill Hill International as the founding Headteacher. \n  \n\nJames Kidd\, Principal\, DLD College London \nJames is currently the Principal at DLD College London\, promoted in September 2024\, having joined in September 2020\, with his role as Senior Vice Principal seeing him tasked with managing the daily operations of the school and as DSL\, looking after the welfare of students – with over 50 nationalities on the student body. Prior to joining DLD College\, James spent 14 years at St John’s School\, Leatherhead\, where he was Assistant Head (Boarding and Co-Curricular)\, having been both a Head of Department and Housemaster of the largest boys’ boarding house in the school before this. Outside of this\, he is Chair of Governors at a special school in the state sector\, and a team manager for the Surrey Schools’ Athletics Team. James is currently studying for an EdD\, focusing on coaching and school culture. \n\nBeth Hudson\, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director\, BAISIS\, BSA Group \nBethan Waddington joined the BSA team as Training Manager in September 2017. Bethan has worked in two independent boarding schools in the UK and Switzerland\, the latter as Housemistress to 36 pupils. Following her time in Switzerland\, she was a Pastoral Manager for an inner-city state academy before working in the charity sector for Debrett’s running the ‘Debrett’s Foundation’ training programme. In her role\, Bethan plans and manages all Day Seminars\, Conferences\, INSET and Consultancy\, as well as being Director of BAISIS. She believes boarding can be a positive force for young people and in order to fully support their needs staff can never learn too much. As such she is passionate about the CPD BSA delivers to our pastoral communities in the UK and worldwide. \n\nAileen Kane\, Deputy CEO & COO\, BSA \nAileen is Deputy CEO & COO of BSA Group. She leads operations at BSA Group and works closely with members to provide guidance and training. Aileen also works with government departments\, local authorities and other agencies to support members and heads up the group’s work to find places for refugee children escaping from conflict countries. \n\n \nDale Wilkins\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance\, BSA Group \nDale joined the BSA in 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards\, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme\, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA\, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter\, and has developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI\, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards\, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit\, which he first produced in 2002\, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding. \nFor 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College\, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992\, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007\, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board. \n\nDavid Walker\, Executive Director\, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB \nDavid 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. \n  \n\nEmily Elliott\, Counsellor\, DLD College London \nEmily is an integrative therapeutic counsellor working in private practice and at DLD college.  She is also a counselling supervisor and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing ) Practitioner. Emily works with adolescents from many international backgrounds and has done so for the last 8 years. In her spare time\, Emily enjoys gardening\, art\, film\, literature and ice skating. \n  \n\nGail Devereux\, Lead Nurse\, ACS Schools Group \nGail is group lead nurse at ACS International Schools. She is based at ACS Cobham\, the largest of the three schools which also accommodates boarding students\, and oversees the medical care at ACS Egham and ACS Hillingdon\, both day schools where the nurses are lone workers. \nAfter qualifying from Northwick Park and Park Royal Hospital\, Gail spent time working in A&E and a cardiology ward before carrying out further training to work in adult intensive care\, before transferring to Great Ormond Street Hospital to work in the paediatric intensive care unit. These years embedded the value of open communication and led to a strong interest in human factors in health care.  \nGail’s interest in school nursing developed after becoming a parent and recognising the value of nurses working within the school setting. She has twenty years’ experience working as a school nurse with international students\, five of which have been as ACS group lead nurse.  \n\nGeorgina Hanford\, Consultancy & Operations Manager\, The Independent Education Consultants \nGeorge leads on client services for TIEC\, with a strong focus on international partnerships within the UK independent school sector\, particularly boarding schools. \nGeorge has extensive experience working within the UK independent day and boarding schools’ sector\, within the realms of British and international student recruitment\, admissions\, and partnerships.  Having previously led on admissions processes and strategy for all-girls\, all-boys\, co-educational\, and international school models\, George has comprehensive knowledge of UK independent school admissions processes and requirements and working with partners from across the globe. \nHaving supported hundreds of families through the admissions process\, from initial enquiry to school enrolment\, George strives to provide a comprehensive service to clients through a child-centred approach which places the individual needs and requirements of the child at its heart.  Whether it be coordinating school visits\, facilitating tutoring arrangements\, liaising with schools’ admissions on individual student interests and needs\, or arranging school assessments\, she is committed to ensuring every family and child receives a personal\, professional\, and proactive service. \nDuring her career in the UK independent education sector\, George has engaged and collaborated with a wide range of partners in the UK and internationally\, fostering great working relationships across the schools’ network.  George aims to strengthen relationships with existing TIEC partners and increase our global partner network so that an increasing number of families\, in the UK and across the world\, can benefit from TIEC’s expertise in education consultancy and secure places at leading UK schools and universities. \n\nFiona McKenzie\, Head of Education\, Carfax Education UAE \nFiona was educated at Rugby School and St. Andrew’s University\, and her comprehensive understanding of the education sector has been built up over 30 years of working in schools and education consultancy\, in locations as varied as South Africa\, Australia\, the U.K.\, and the U.A.E. Fiona has worked with hundreds of families guiding them to make the best educational choices for their children at both school or university level. \nAs Head of Global Consultancy at Carfax Education\, Fiona’s team advise families from across the globe\, including the Middle East\, Russia and China. They offer bespoke solutions for each family’s education needs with schools’ guidance\, private tutoring\, residential placements\, homeschooling\, university preparation and career mentoring. Fiona regularly contributes to education journals\, radio shows and panel discussions in the UK\, and the UAE. \n\n \nNick Stevenson\, VP\, EMEAA\, ICEF \nNick has worked within international education since graduation in 2008\, beginning his career in an advertising sales role at Study Travel Magazine and later Inline Marketing. He studied Joint Honours Spanish & Management Studies at the University of Leeds\, including an Erasmus Year at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid\, later completing an MBA at the University of Salford. Since joining ICEF in 2014\, he has progressed from Business Development Manager to VP EMEAA\, and is responsible for furthering ICEF’s growth and influence across this key region. \n\nHelen Rose\, Assistant Principal Boarding and Welfare\, The Worthgate School \nHelen is a dedicated leader with more than two decades of experience in the field of education. She has taken on leadership roles in independent\, state\, and specialised educational institutions\, covering both academic and pastoral leadership responsibilities. \nHelen’s commitment lies in ensuring that students have experiences that enable them to reach their full potential\, and she extends this dedication to her approach in guiding and empowering her teams of staff. Her expertise spans change management in various sectors\, including facilitating rapid improvements\, overseeing school mergers\, and adapting to changes brought about by the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through these experiences\, she has accumulated a wealth of knowledge\, skills\, and a proven track record in leading teams through challenging times. \nHelen’s primary focus has evolved to guide individual staff members and teams in discovering and living their purposes within the organisational culture. This commitment has become a cornerstone of her leadership philosophy. \nThe purpose of this webinar is to provide insights into the transformative potential of empowering and engaging individuals and teams in the workplace. \n\nEilidh Dickens (Cultural integration group)\, Fettes College 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/baisis-bsa-conference-supporting-international-students/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Conference,Online
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SUMMARY:BSA/TIOB - Annual Boarding Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n  \n \n\nIt is so helpful to be able to keep up with what is going on in other boarding schools and the boarding trends that are emerging. \n\n\nDate: January 28-29\, 2025\nTime: 09:30 – 17:00\nAudience: All those involved in boarding\nCost: BSA/TIOB members: £595\, BSA Affiliate members: £895\, Non-members: £1190\nVenue: Crowne Plaza Nottingham\, Wollaton Street\, NG1 5RH\nAccommodation: Discounted rooms available via Roomex\n\n\nWe’re looking forward to welcoming you to the BSA/TIOB Annual Boarding Conference 2025. \nChaired by Will Goldsmith\, Head\, Packwood Haugh School\, the theme is ‘Boarding perspectives: Learning within\, leading beyond’. \nCome together with colleagues to consider the latest trends\, challenges and opportunities in boarding. \nSessions will include: \n\nGlobal boarding trends\nAll roads lead to boarding\nProactive inclusion\nOnline safety\nThe vaping epidemic\nLeadership in boarding\nPreparing students for life after school\nGlobal village round table: Creating a home from home; Safeguarding and compliance; Integrating international students; Immigration 101; Marketing boarding\nBreakouts: UK compliance; Running international (outside UK) boarding houses; Legal update; The boarding parent; State boarding\n\n\nThe networking and sessions were excellent\, affirming\, and inspiring.\n\nThe conference also includes the BSA/TIOB Annual Conference Dinner\, which will take place on January 28\, 2025\, following a drinks reception with music from Trent College. \nBOOK NOW \nVIEW THE PROGRAMME \nInformation for delegates \nDelegates can book overnight accommodation using the online booking platform\, Roomex. Click here to login and secure your room using your school email address. \n\nConference Chair: \n \nWill Goldsmith\, Conference Chair 2025 and Head\, Packwood Haugh School  \nWilliam Goldsmith has a career spanning almost twenty years in boarding education and leadership. He is currently Head of Packwood Haugh School. William is passionate about a skills and mindset-based learning philosophy and has a background in emotional wellbeing and mental health. He is a founding fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and Royal Society of the Arts. \n\nSpeakers: \nCandice Brathwaite\, writer and TV personality \nCandice is a critically acclaimed writer and TV personality with over half a million devotees on social media. Successful in non-fiction and fiction spaces\, her first book I am not your Baby Mother\, examining the inequalities of Black motherhood\, was a Sunday Times Bestseller. Her hit podcast Closet Confessions has amassed millions of downloads and tours nationally. Candice is Contributing Editor to Grazia and regularly appears on national radio and television news channels where she is a straight-talking and courageous voice on achieving your goals\, fashion\, family and the Black British experience. \n\nMark Buckler\, Deputy Head (Pastoral)\, St Andrew’s School\, Turi \nMark has served at St Andrew’s School\, Turi in Kenya for the past seven years alongside his family. Previously\, he held leadership roles at Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire\, including Head of Conduct and Head of Art. Mark recently earned distinction for his master’s dissertation\, which focused on the pressing issue of bullying perpetration in an East African school context. His research continues to inform his work\, equipping both the school and the wider community with strategies to foster a positive\, proactive approach to addressing bullying and promoting healthy relationships among young people and adults. \n\nBen Collingwood\, Partner\, Moore Barlow \nBen specialises in advising independent schools and other charities on wide ranging areas of education law\, with particular focus on reputation issues\, pastoral\, safeguarding\, historic abuse allegations\, SEN\, exclusions\, parent/pupil complaints\, data protection\, parent contracts\, admissions and staff matters of all types. \nHe has written and spoken widely on issues facing the independent schools sector\, providing comment in The Times\, The Guardian\, The Lawyer and Law Society’s Gazette and at the national conferences and training programmes for the various associations that support independent schools including BSA\, ISBA\, HMC\, IAPS and AGBIS. \nHe lives with his wife and three children in West Sussex. He has been a devoted surfer since his childhood and he loves to spend as much of his free time as possible in the sea and walking their pointers with his family. \n\nJamie Daniels\, Director\, PRS Training \nJamie has been interested in and teaching self-defence and martial arts for thirty years\, culminating in learning and instructing Krav Maga. In that time he has seen again and again how it’s not martial arts people need\, rather it is some simple physical techniques and a healthy dose of understanding as to what constitutes a dangerous situation\, how to spot one developing\, and what to do about it. As well as a history in the security industry\, Jamie has been working in the education sector for over 15 years. This has also helped Jamie understand the pressures and demands that young people face today. \n\n \nWendy Griffiths\, Chair\, Independent Schools Examinations Board  \nWendy has been Chair of the Board of the Independent Schools Examinations Board (ISEB) since February 2022. Before this she was Head of Tudor Hall School\, an all-girls full boarding school. She has held the senior leadership roles of Director of Studies at St Catherine’s School\, Bramley\, and Senior Mistress at Tormead School\, Guildford.  During her time as Head Wendy was the Chair of the Boarding Schools’ Association (BSA)\, a member of the Executive of the Girls’ Schools Association (GSA) and Chair of the GSA Boarding Committee. She has previously served on board of five boarding prep schools and is currently on the board of Westbourne House School\, Chichester and on the Council of Wycombe Abbey. \n\nEd Gyde\, CEO\, Audience Social Marketing\, whose campaign experience includes delivering the ‘Talk to FRANK’ and ‘5 a day’ initiatives \nEd has lived and breathed health campaigns for two decades. Coming from a medical family he is Audience Social Marketing’s public health lead and has shaped many of the biggest national public health campaigns: ‘5 a day’\, Talk to FRANK (drugs education) and Know Your Limits (alcohol education). \n\nDr Jasmine Khouja\, Senior Research Associate\, The Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group\, University of Bristol \nJasmine’s work focuses on the causes and consequences of e-cigarette use as well as the potential impact that e-cigarette policy changes could have on adult smokers\, adult vapers and young people. Using a range of methods (including novel methods in genetic epidemiology)\, she has explored a wide variety of topics\, including the gateway hypothesis\, possible health effects of vaping\, and the potential impact of hypothetical e-liquid flavour bans. The overall aims of Jasmine’s research are to reduce health inequalities and to provide supporting evidence for policies and regulations which protect young people from harm and discourage smoking. \n\nAndrea Kis\, Doctoral Researcher\, University of Sussex \nAndrea lived in China from 2010 to 2019\, where she tutored and mentored middle school students\, taught at the Sir Horace Kadoorie Youth Development Center\, Sino-British College\, and at both JiaoTong and FuDan Universities in Shanghai. She is currently a departmental tutor in the Social Anthropology Department at the University of Sussex\, leading a seminar on Ethnography through Film while completing the final draft of her doctoral thesis on Chinese families’ elite education-migration to the UK. \n\n \nIan Lloyd\, Interim Deputy Head\, LVS Ascot \nIan has taken a rather non-standard route into education after having enjoyed successful careers in both engineering and financial services sectors.  During the first 14 years of his career\, Ian trained as an apprentice aircraft technician at British Aerospace before moving into high-street banking\, personal finance\, occupational pensions and high net worth client investment planning.  Moving into education in the early noughties\, he now has 20 years’ experience in the sector\, working in local government and state secondary schools before switching to the independent boarding school sector 8 years ago as Senior Deputy Headmaster of Myddelton College in North Wales and most recently Interim Deputy Head of LVS Ascot.  He is passionate about the judicious use of technology to support teaching\, learning and streamlining the administrative functions of education\, saving staff valuable time to focus on what they do best – supporting\, guiding and teaching children. \n\n \nAdam McRae-Taylor\, Legal Director\, Moore Barlow  \nAdam specialises in employment and education law and advises on issues such as unfair dismissal\, discrimination cases\, safeguarding\, parent contracts and data protection. Adam trained and qualified in employment law with a Magic Circle firm in London. Before joining the Schools & Charities Team at Moore Barlow\, he spent two years working in-house for a charity. \n\nSimon Pither\, Director\, PRS Training \nSimon started martial arts at a local Judo club when he was 14. Ten years later he got his first instructor qualification and has been teaching martial arts and running self-defence courses ever since\, culminating in his current role as the President of the UK Sector of the European Federation of Krav Maga. While running courses for students\, teachers\, nurses\, community clubs\, charities and corporate organisations over the years\, it became apparent that everyone wished they had learned it earlier. \n\n \nDr Chris Pyle\, Head\, Lancaster Royal Grammar School \nChris is Chair of the BSA State Boarding Forum. He has been Head of Lancaster Royal Grammar School since 2012.  The school has grown significantly over that period and has welcomed Sixth Form girls as boarders and day students. It has been judged Outstanding in all categories in three successive Ofsted boarding inspections. Chris was previously Deputy Head of the Perse School\, Cambridge. Before becoming a teacher he completed a PhD in Geography at Cambridge University and also worked in the water industry. He holds the NPQH\, is currently studying for the NPQEL in school leadership\, and is Executive Lead of the NNW Maths Hub. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society\, and regularly writes resources for schools on natural hazards and environmental change. \n\nPaddy Rockett\, Head of Middle School Boarding\, Reed’s School \nPaddy Rockett is the Head of Middle School Boarding/Housemaster at Reed’s School in Surrey. Paddy has been through the Pastoral Care module and Boarding Management module run by the BSA and is currently completing his Masters in Residential Education with the University of Buckingham. His current area of research is focussed on the development of life skills in boarding houses and the development of a national programme for life skills development. \nPreviously\, Paddy was a lead in the “Broadening the Curriculum” strategy of the University of Limerick designing a social responsibility module undertaken by first year students. As a Biology teacher he is interested in the use of VR and AR in the teaching of Science. He is also in interested in Pastoral care\, the development of Boarding nationally and internationally and social mobility. \n\nGuy Schady-Beckett\, Director and Head of Research\, Next Step Education \nGuy has served as Director and Head of Research at Next Step Education Limited\n(Independent Schools Show & Bonas MacFarlane) since 2014. Previously he ran Drayson Beckett Limited\, a specialist education consultancy working long-term with schools and universities on business development (with a focus on digital\ntransition)\, market research and brand / product repositioning for 20 years. Prior to that he taught English at Windlesham and Durston House. He holds a PhD and an MA in History from Birkbeck\, University of London\, with distinction honours\, as well as a second MA from University of the Arts London. His BA was in English from UCL. \n\nAshley Smith\, Deputy Head of Boarding\, Worthgate School \nAshley has quickly risen through the ranks at Worthgate in just under three years. Beginning at Worthgate on a zero-hour contract without experience in education or boarding\, and originally from a background in printing\, the transition into boarding has revealed a deep-seated purpose and passion for working with young people. Promoted to Deputy Head of Boarding in August 2024\, Ashley has a desire to guide students through their unique journeys\, striving to foster a nurturing environment and shape positive\, supportive\, and impactful experiences for students and staff alike. \n\n \nLotte Tulloch\, Head\, Denstone College \nLotte was previously the Deputy Head of Sedbergh School and a member of the Senior Leadership Team of Casterton\, Sedbergh Preparatory School. Lotte was educated at Loretto School\, Edinburgh and was awarded a Morehead-Cain Scholarship to the University of North Carolina where she graduated with a BA with Distinction in English Literature. Lotte gained her PGCE in secondary education from Buckingham University and studied for her Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA Education) at Keele University. Lotte has significant international experience and is passionate about British schools as pedagogical centres of excellence around the world. A champion of diversity and accessibility in independent education\, Lotte is an accomplished musician and a passionate fell runner. \n\nJessica Watts\, House Matron\, Abbey College Cambridge  \nJessica joined the boarding sector in September 2023 after a long career in NHS management\, working in hospitals\, ambulance services and public health\, having graduated in anatomical sciences and subsequently studied for a masters in health services management. Jessica currently works at Abbey College Cambridge\, an independent sixth form college\, as a House Matron\, having started as a House\nParent. Jessica is also a member of the Human Tissue Authority which regulates the use of human tissues and organs\, and holds sports volunteering positions in cricket and swimming. \n\n \nDavid Williams\, CEO\, I-GTM  \nDavid is the co-founder of I-GTM\, the leading provider of a travel record-keeping and management solution designed specifically for UK boarding schools. His mission is to ensure that schools receive precisely what they need from I-GTM — capturing accurate records of the boarder roll and streamlining travel planning while enhancing safeguarding\, efficiency\, and compliance. I-GTM’s technology addresses the challenges of student travel\, offering a centralised platform that empowers schools to oversee\, monitor\, and manage travel records with confidence. \n\nDavid Wright\, CBE\, CEO\, SWGfL and Director\, UK Safer Internet Centre \nDavid has worked extensively in online safety for 20 years with children\, schools and wider agencies. He advises a number of governments\, organisations and industry partners on online safety strategy and policy and has been appointed an expert child online protection adviser to the UN ITU and nominated by UK Government as an expert to the Council of Europe Tech Facilitated Gender Based Violence committee. David is a member of the UK Council for Internet Safety and has recently been invited to be a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety. David has led pioneering work\, such as the development of multi award winning resources and helplines for victims of online harm and\, with Plymouth University\, published a number of ground-breaking research reports. \n\nSpeakers from the BSA Team: \nKate Hollyer\, Executive Director\, Legal & Public Affairs & Partner\, BSA Group \nKate is Legal and Public Affairs Director of BSA Group and Director of BSA Legal Services Ltd. As a qualified solicitor with more than 10 years’ experience advising clients on UK immigration law\, Kate assists members with all immigration and safeguarding legal matters. Prior to joining BSA in 2022 Kate was Partner and Head of Department at a leading full-service UK law firm. Having resided in state\, preparatory and senior school boarding houses since 2014 with her Housemaster husband\, Kate has a unique perspective of boarding life. \n\n \nBethan Hudson\, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director\, BAISIS\, BAISIS \nBethan joined the BSA team as Training Manager in September 2017. Bethan has worked in two independent boarding schools in the UK and Switzerland\, the latter as Housemistress to 36 pupils. Following her time in Switzerland\, she was a Pastoral Manager for an inner-city state academy before working in the charity sector for Debrett’s running the ‘Debrett’s Foundation’ training programme. \nIn her role\, Bethan plans and manages all Day Seminars\, Conferences\, INSET and Consultancy\, as well as being Director of BAISIS. She believes boarding can be a positive force for young people and in order to fully support their needs staff can never learn too much. As such she is passionate about the CPD BSA delivers to our pastoral communities in the UK and worldwide. \n\n \nAileen Kane\, Chief Operating Officer\, BSA Group \nAileen is COO of BSA Group\, and the Director of SACPA (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association). Aileen leads operations at BSA providing guidance and training and works closely with government departments\, local authorities and other agencies to support members. She heads up the group’s work to find places for refugee children escaping from conflict countries and is also a trustee for a children’s charity. \n\nDavid Walker\, Executive Director\, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB \nDavid 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. \n\n \nDale Wilkins\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance\, BSA Group \nDale joined the BSA in 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards\, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme\, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA\, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter\, and has developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI\, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards\, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit\, which he first produced in 2002\, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding. \nFor 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College\, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992\, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007\, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board. \n\n\nI have been truly impressed by BSA’s dedication to connecting schools and sharing best practices.\n\n  \nExhibiting and sponsorship: We are delighted to be able to offer sponsorship and exhibition opportunities at this event. For full details please reach out to Neil Rust\, Head of Commercial neil.rust@bsagroup.org.uk or Laura Brain\, Senior Commercial Consultant\, +44 (0)207 798 1580\, laura.brain@bsagroup.org.uk
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/annual-boarding-conference-2/
LOCATION:Crowne Plaza\, Nottingham\, Wollaton Street\, Nottingham\, NG1 5RH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:BSA - Prep Boarding Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \n\n\nDate: December 03\, 2024\nTime: 09:00 – 16:30\nCost: BSA Full Member – £110\, BSA Affiliate Member – £140\, Non-member – £165\nAudience: Head\, Deputy Head\, Bursar\, Registrar\, Head of Boarding\, Marketing\, Admissions\, Medical\, Head of EAL\, DoS\, Pastoral staff.\nVenue: Wellington College Prep\, Sandhurst\, Berkshire\, United Kingdom\n\n\nOur brand new conference brings together prep school professionals to share and debate current prep boarding issues. \nSessions will include: \n\nSafeguarding guidance updates\nCase study: Staff supervision initiative at Wellington College Prep\nResults from the latest boarding sector survey\nYouth leadership\nAnxiety\nTech management\n\nThe conference is suitable for anyone in a boarding role\, and we expect a mix of school leaders and other boarding practitioners.  \nBOOK NOW \nVIEW PROGRAMME \n\nSpeakers: \n \nWill Orr-Ewing\, Schools Engagement Lead\, Smartphone Free Childhood and Director\, Keystone Tutors \nWill is the founder of Keystone Tutors and Arka Learning\, and has been a trustee of schools across the entire sector. Since it launched in February this year\, he has been volunteering as the Schools Engagement lead for Smartphone Free Childhood – a cause close to his heart. \n  \n\n \nKaty Granville-Chapman\, co-author\, ‘Leader: Know\, love and inspire your people’ \nEmmie Bidston\, co-author\, ‘Leader: Know\, love and inspire your people’ \n  \n  \n  \n\n \nAlly Onions\, Head of Safeguarding and Mental Health\, St George’s School\, Windsor Castle \nAlly has worked in boarding education for over 20 years. She recently completed an MA in Boarding Education\, looking at resilience and prep boarders. Ally is a trained Mental Health First Aider and Instructor Member\, and is currently rolling out training to staff and parents. \n  \n  \n\nJenny Griggs\, Head of Student Emotional Health and Wellbeing\, Wellington College \nJenny is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with 18 years’ experience working in CAMHS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service) within the NHS\, in her own independent practice\, and for the University of Reading. Jenny specialised in CBT and has a passion for working with teenagers and young adults. \nJenny’s role at Wellington College has been designed to drive forward the momentum of Wellington’s wellbeing provision as the College builds the right support structures to help current and future pupils. She has oversight of all pupils who are struggling with their mental health and will ensure they receive the right care at the right time. This might be via Wellington’s expanding team of highly trained school counsellors or through external support. \n\nLauren Fisher\, Head of Boarding\, Wellington College Prep \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nJess Goves\, Deputy Head Safeguarding (DSL)\, Wellington College Prep \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n \nDavid Walker\, Executive Director\, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB \nDavid is the BSA Director 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. \n  \n\nDale Wilkins\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance\nDale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards\, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme\, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA\, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter and has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI\, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards\, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit\, which he first produced in 2002\, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding. \nFor 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College\, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992\, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007\, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board. \n\nEd Venables\, Head\, Wellington College Prep \nAfter studying Classics at Oxford university and a 12-year career in the investment banking and private equity world in the City\, Ed returned to his old school\, Wellington College\, to teach Economics and Business.  His time at Wellington saw him being Head of the Economics department\, Housemaster of his former boarding house for six years and\, finally\, Director of Admissions and a member of the Executive Leadership Team.  In September 2023 Ed moved to become Head of Eagle House School\, Wellington’s 3-13 prep school.  Ed remains on the Wellington ELT. \nEd is married and has three sons.  Away from school\, he lives in Anglesey\, North Wales\, and loves getting there in the holidays for lots of walking\, running and time in and on the sea! \n\n 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/bsa-prep-boarding-conference/
LOCATION:Wellington College Prep\, Berkshire GU47 8PH\, Wellington College Prep\, Sandhurst\, Berkshire\, GU47 8PH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:SACPA/BSA - Annual Safeguarding Conference
DESCRIPTION:Date: November 27\, 2024\nTime: 09:30 – 16:00\nCost: BSA/SACPA Full Member – £235\, BSA/SACPA Member Additional – £110\, BSA Affiliate Member – £325\, BSA Affiliate Member Additional – £140\, Non-member – £430\nAudience: All those involved in safeguarding\nPlatform: Zoom (online) – conference\n\n\nCourse outline: \nThis year’s SACPA and BSA Annual Safeguarding Conference promises to bring a day packed with expert speakers from a range of disciplines and perspectives who aim to inform\, challenge\, and invigorate delegates on a range of key and contemporary safeguarding topics and learning. \nAddressing key issues from our members\, sessions will consider the current safeguarding landscape the conference closes with the awards ceremony for SACPA Annual Safeguarding Awards. \nSACPA and BSA will facilitate questions directly from members to our experts throughout the day and encourage delegates to come prepared with questions for our panels. \nUnable to attend? A post conference recording will be available for purchase. This does not include the student-led session. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nKeynote address\nResponding to Child-on-Child Abuse\nWorking with Affluence\nGearing up for the impact of AI and Virtual Reality\nDeveloping safeguarding practice with international families\nPresentation of SACPA Safeguarding Awards 2023-24.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nDelegates will be updated abut the latest trends and where their focus should be in the immediate future\nDelegates will be updated on what works in responding to child-on-child abuse\nDelegates will consider the impact of power relations on safeguarding practice in fee paying schools and what this means for the lived experience of affluent children living in neglectful circumstances\nDelegates will understand how the Virtual Reality Risks Against Children videos for children and toolkit for safeguarding leads in schools can be incorporated into the preventative education offer and help children navigate virtual worlds more safely.\nDelegates will benefit from the experience of leaders working with international families and how safeguarding practice has developed to improve outcomes for children\nDelegates will have the opportunity to celebrate with runners up and winners of the SACPA Annual Safeguarding Awards\n\nSACPA Members Safeguarding Awards 2024 \nThe conference will conclude with a presentation to announce the winners of the annual SACPA Safeguarding Awards for 2023-24. Please click here to enter the awards. The deadline for entries is September 30\, 2024. Please note\, the awards are open to SACPA members only. \nView the programme here \nBOOK NOW \n\nProgramme: \n09:30 – 10:15 \nKeynote Address \nIn our keynote session SACPA and BSA Safeguarding and Child Protection advisory board chair reviews current trends in safeguarding practise. What are the key themes\, what can we expect in the near future\, and what should we planning to address right now. \n\nChair: David Walker\, Executive Director\, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB\n\nSpeaker: Karl Hopwood\, E-safety Expert\n\n\n\n10:15 – 11:15 \nResponding to Child-on-Child Abuse – Panel Discussion \nSettings for children have been implementing child-on-child abuse practice for some time. In this session our panel members discuss the challenges\, lessons learned and innovative practice responses to this complex area of safeguarding practice. \n\nChair: David Smellie\, Farrer  \n\nSpeaker: Simon Hill\, Deputy Head\, Christ College Brecon\nClare McDonnell\, Safeguarding Lead\, Fettes College\nDelyth Lynch\, Director of Safeguarding\, Wellington College\nSimon Cane-Hardy\, Head\, Gordonstoun \n\n\n\nBreak  11:15 – 11:45 \n11:45 – 12:45 \nWorking with Affluence \nIn this session our speaker presents findings of what we know about working with affluence. How may power relations impact the delivery of safeguarding practise in fee paying schools and what does this mean for thresholds\, and the lived experience of affluent children living in neglectful circumstances. \n\nChair: Claire Dan\, SACPA and Director of Safeguarding\, BSA Group \n\nSpeaker: Professor Claudia Bernard\, Professor of Social Work\, Goldsmiths University of London\n\n\n\nLunch 12:45 – 13:30 \n13:30 – 14:30 \nChildren Playing in Virtual Reality: reviewing the VIRAAC toolkit and resources \nIn this session our speaker explains the background to the Virtual Reality Risks Against Children Project\, it’s published findings\, the resource and toolkits that result from the project. Our panel of child and adult reviewers will then give their views on using the toolkit and resources. \n\nChair: Claire Dan\, SACPA and Director of Safeguarding\, BSA Group \n\nSpeaker: Chris MacInnis\, Safeguarding and Mental Health Lead\, Ardingly College\nBronwyn Kidd\, Deputy Head\, St Neot’s Preparatory School\nGeorgina Sayers\, Assistant Head Pastoral and Wellbeing\, Ardingly College\nElena Matellozzo\, Associate Professor in Criminology\, Associate Director\, Centre for Child Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS)\, Middlesex University\nPaula Bradbury\, Criminology and Policing Practice Lecturer\, University of Middlesex\nBoglarka Meggyesfalvi\, Researcher\, Centre For Abuse & Trauma Studies\, Middlesex University\n\n\n\nBreak 14:30 – 14:45 \n14:45 – 15:30 \nDeveloping Safeguarding Practice with International Families \nWorking with international families\, their understanding of safeguarding in the UK and the backdrop of practitioners cultural competence\, and family cultural expectations creates a complex safeguarding context in which the child can very easily be lost. Our speakers summarise the key issues for safeguarding practitioners\, and describe how thier safeguarding practice with international families has developed and improved outcomes of children. \n\nChair: Bethan Hudson\, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director\, BAISIS\, BSA Group\n\nSpeaker: Mario Di Clemente\, Education Consultant\nSuchita Prakash\, DSL and Deputy Head (Pastoral)\, Mill Hill International \n\n\n\n15:30 – 16:00 \nConference close and presentation of SACPA Safeguarding Awards 2023-24 \nJoin SACPA to celebrate the success and achievement for children and adults. We announce the organisations and safeguarding professionals who have been recognised for achieving excellence in safeguarding tis year and are winnders and runners up of the SACPA Annual Safeguarding Award. \n\nChair: Claire Dan\, SACPA and Director of Safeguarding\, BSA Group \nDale Wilkins\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance\n\n16:00 \nConference close \n\nSpeakers: \n \nClaire Dan\, Director of Safeguarding\, BSA Group and Director\, SACPA \nClaire is Director of Safeguarding and Director\, Sacpa and leads on the provision of safeguarding advice and support to members and the development and delivery of CPD and safeguarding consultancy services. Claire is a safeguarding specialist and leader with a background in education welfare\, youth justice\, and early help contexts which have involved a strong focus on diverse and collaborative partnerships\, professional development and supervision of front-line safeguarding colleagues\, and leading multi-disciplinary teams and projects. Between 2006 and 2013 Claire was involved with Luton Safeguarding Children Board as a lead multi-agency safeguarding trainer\, developing and delivering single and multi-agency safeguarding training\, and since 2013 has delivered pieces of bespoke consultancy work\, and providing a range of safeguarding consultancy on a freelance basis. \n\n \nDale Wilkins\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance \nDale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards\, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme\, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA\, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter and has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI\, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards\, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit\, which he first produced in 2002\, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding. \nFor 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College\, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992\, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007\, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board. \n\nDavid Walker\, Executive Director\, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB \nDavid 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. \n  \n\n \nBethan Hudson\, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director\, BAISIS\, BSA Group \nBethan Waddington joined the BSA team as Training Manager in September 2017. Bethan has worked in two independent boarding schools in the UK and Switzerland\, the latter as Housemistress to 36 pupils. Following her time in Switzerland\, she was a Pastoral Manager for an inner-city state academy before working in the charity sector for Debrett’s running the ‘Debrett’s Foundation’ training programme. \nIn her role\, Bethan plans and manages all Day Seminars\, Conferences\, INSET and Consultancy\, as well as being Director of BAISIS. She believes boarding can be a positive force for young people and in order to fully support their needs staff can never learn too much. As such she is passionate about the CPD BSA delivers to our pastoral communities in the UK and worldwide. \n\nKarl Hopwood\, E-safety Expert \nis an independent online safety expert. He is a member of UKCIS (UK Council for Internet Safety) and sits on the UKCIS evidence group\, education working group and the early warning group as well as on the advisory board for the UK Safer Internet Centre. He also sits on the Roblox trust and safety board where he represents the Insafe network. He was recently part of an expert steering group with TikTok looking at harmful and dangerous online challenges. \nKarl has worked for a number of key players in the UK and abroad including CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre)\, BECTA (British Educational and Communications Technology Agency)\, the European Commission\, the UN and several Local Authorities within the UK and in Europe. \nAs an ex primary headteacher\, he continues to work closely in schools across Europe with children\, young people\, parents\, teachers and governors to develop safer online behaviours and the promotion of digital literacy. Karl has been employed for the last 16 years as an in-house consultant for INSAFE which is the coordinating node of the EU Better Internet for Kids programme where he is responsible for the coordination of safer internet helplines across Europe. Karl was the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Marie Collins Foundation for 7 years\, a charity which supports young people who have been sexually abused and exploited online and is Chair of the board of trustees of Childnet international and Chair of the executive committee of SACPA (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association). Karl has recently worked with a team developing a national online safety strategy in Rwanda and chaired the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) working group to re-write their Child Online Protection Guidance. \n\nDavid Smellie\, Head of Safeguarding Unit\, Farrer & Co \nDavid Smellie for many years headed the firm’s employment team and schools group\, and today\, whilst remaining a key member of both\, he separately leads the firm’s market leading safeguarding unit. \nIn advising schools David focuses on issues relating to staff\, pupils and parents – from sensitive dismissals to pupil exclusions and parental complaints.  David’s leadership of the safeguarding unit stems from many years of advising schools on safeguarding and child protection.  He founded the firm’s safeguarding unit in 2015 which advises organisations either working or coming into contact with children.  These include schools\, universities\, charities\, churches and religious organisations\, visitor attractions\, sports clubs and the medical sector.  David advises on the full range of safeguarding issues\, from creating safer systems to handling live cases and carrying out retrospective reviews.  He is particularly well known for his role in advising on the Southbank International Vahey case where he led the Farrer & Co team in conducting the Independent Review of Hugh Davies QC and in advising Chelsea FC on its independent reviews of non-recent child sexual abuse\, current safeguarding systems\, and non-recent racial abuse. \n\nDelyth Lynch\, Director of Safeguarding\, Wellington College \nDelyth has been on the Senior Leadership Team at Wellington College for 10 years\, having previously been Deputy Head (Pastoral). This followed a long career in boarding as a Director of Extra-Curricular activities and Housemistress at two schools. \nIn 2018 she was awarded the BSA Research Fellowship; Delyth conducted her research on ‘Abuse in Boarding Schools\, probing into an area where there was little research or literature available. Her paper won the National Research Award (2019). Her innovative work in the pastoral education of parents saw her winning the TES ‘Boarding Initiative of the Year’ award (2016) and in 2020 the inaugural Wellington College ‘Community Mental Health Day’ was recognised with them winning the BSA ‘Wellbeing and Mental Health Initiative of the Year’. Wellington College currently holds the Gold Status in School Mental Health through the Carnegie Centre of Excellence. \nDelyth is the Safeguarding Governor and Vice Chair of Governors at a local school and leads the Local Independent Schools DSL cluster group. She has also been a BSA course tutor on the Certificate and Diploma Courses and her work in the area of abuse in boarding schools was cited by IICSA in their recent inquiry into abuse in residential settings. \nIn her spare time\, Delyth enjoys running around with her 4 year old daughter and triathlon. \n\nSimon Hill\, Deputy Head\, Christ College Brecon \nSimon grew up in Eastbourne\, East Sussex and was educated at Eastbourne College. He gained a BA (Hons) Geography at Kings College London University and a PGCE at the Institute of Education\, London. He started his career as a teacher of geography at King Edward’s School\, Surrey\, before moving to Glenalmond College\, Perth where he was Senior Housemaster. In 2010\, Simon was appointed as Director of Boarding at Brisbane Grammar School\, Queensland\, before moving back to the UK to join Christ College as Deputy Head (Pastoral) in 2016.  His focus is on pupil wellbeing\, the second curriculum and sport of all types.  He also runs the school’s annual pupil exchange programme to Japan. \n\nClare McDonnell\, Safeguarding Lead\, Fettes College \nClare studied Classics at the University of St Andrews and then went straight to the University of Cambridge to do her PGCE in Classics teaching. She started her teaching career at Oundle School\, where she was also the Assistant Houseparent in a girls’ boarding house\, and the Deputy Child Protection Officer. After four years Clare moved to Fettes College as a Classics teacher and was delighted to be back in Scotland. She was the Assistant Houseparent in a girls’ boarding house for five years\, and has been the Child Protection Co-ordinator since 2018. She joined the Senior Management Team in 2023 as the Safeguarding Lead. \n\nProfessor Claudia Bernard\, Professor of Social Work\, Goldsmiths University of London \nClaudia Bernard is Professor of Social Work at Goldsmiths\, University of London. She has a background in social work and her research interests lie in the areas of safeguarding\, child abuse and neglect\, and the impact of systemic equalities on child and family welfare. She has written widely on these topics\, including a book entitled Constructing Lived Experiences: Representations of Black Mothers in Child Sexual Abuse Discourses (2nd Edition\, Routledge\, 2017)\, and an edited collection entitled Safeguarding Black Children: Good Practice in Child Protection (Jessica Kingsley Publishers\, 2016). Her latest book Intersectionality for Social Workers: A Practical Introduction to Theory and Practice (2022) is published by Routledge. Professor Bernard has pioneered research on child neglect in affluent families. \n\nSimon Cane-Hardy\, Head\, Gordonstoun  \nSimon studied History at Cardiff University and worked in London before undertaking teacher training. He then taught History\, became a Head of Department\, Boarding Housemaster and Head of Boarding. He coached Rugby and Cricket and plays sport to an average level! In 2016 Simon moved to Prior Park College in Bath as Deputy Head. He moved to Gordonstoun as Head in 2023 where he lives on campus with his wife Helen and their three children\, who attend the Gordonstoun Prep School. \n  \n\nMario Di Clemente\, Education Consultant \nMario is a modern languages graduate and qualified teacher who started out as Head of Spanish at Woldingham School before taking up a Director of Studies post at MPW London where he eventually became Vice Principal in 2001. He has occupied senior leadership and management positions ever since including as Principal of three colleges with international students: Cambridge Tutors College in Surrey\, CATS College in London and Bishopstrow College in Wiltshire. He has also served as Chief Operations Officer of an Academy Trust in London and as a secondary school governor. Mario’s experience extends to both the independent and state sectors and in both day and boarding schools. He has led schools through highly successful inspections and has served as an ISI school inspector. He has also been a trustee on the UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) and served as Chair of the Council for Independent Further Education (CIFE). Mario has been involved with BAISIS for over a decade and shares the priority of its members to provide a soft landing\, nurturing environment and a memorable British educational experience for its diverse international student community. \n\nBronwyn Kidd\, Deputy Head\, St Neot’s Preparatory School \nBronwyn Kidd serves as the Deputy Head of St Neot’s Preparatory School\, with 14 years of senior leadership experience in education. Educated in South Africa with a foundation in primary education\, Bronwyn’s own school experiences have shaped her vision and commitment to the pastoral care of young people\, particularly in guiding children through the key transition to adolescence and senior school. \nIn addition to her role at St Neot’s\, Bronwyn serves as a local state school governor\, further contributing to the educational community and sharing her expertise in child wellbeing. Bronwyn is also a proud parent to two children who are thriving in the prep school environment\, which fuels her personal passion for fostering nurturing and supportive school settings. Over the past four years\, Bronwyn has been focused on safeguarding and pastoral care across the school\, ensuring that as a community\, they are dedicated to proactive mental health care. The culture and pastoral care\, resulting in high standards of behaviour\, were recognised as a significant strength by ISI in 2024. This focus ensures that every pupil feels valued\, resilient\, and ready to flourish both academically and personally. \n\nChris MacInnis\, Designated Safeguarding and Mental Health Lead\, Ardingly College \nChris has been working in education since 2008\, where a medical condition forced a change of career. In all his time in education he has been a non-teaching member of staff. Working through a number of support and pastoral roles\, before becoming DSL of a state secondary school in 2018. he stepped away from schools for a year to sit in the West Sussex Mash Team as an Education advisor\, supporting DSL’s from around the county with concerns\, being part of auditing teams\, supporting with the restructure of MASH referrals and representing education settings in a number of external meetings. Being part of the MASH team was a valuable experience\, but he recognised his passion laid with supporting young people directly\, and he was fortunate enough to be offered the DSL and Mental Health Lead here at Ardingly College. \nIn 2018\, Chris completed his degree at University Of Brighton in Working with Children and Young people\, along with his Senior Mental Health Leader certificate and SACPA Advanced Certificate in Child Safeguarding Practice in 2023. \nHe is keen to enhance his learning regularly and often transfer his learning to staff training\, weekly Safeguarding Snippets for staff or presenting to students in house to help keep them safe. His ethos to working is providing students with clear factual information which allows them to make informed decisions\, this can lead to some very interesting conversations\, led by the student’s desire to learn at an age-appropriate level. Student’s will go off to take risk’s and make mistakes\, his unconditional positive regard approach helps turn these incidents into learning opportunities. \n\nSuchita Prakash\, DSL and Deputy Head (Pastoral)\, Mill Hill International  \nSuchita effectively combines her diverse track results in leading education with computer engineering education. Initially trained as a computer engineer\, Suchita commenced her career as a software development consultant before transitioning to teaching. Her multi-decade teaching leadership spans GCSE and A-Level Computer Science and Mathematics in both state and independent schools across several cultures. In these leadership roles\, Suchita has collaborated closely with various safeguarding agencies to prioritise the welfare of students. \nHer work at Mill Hill International is deeply rooted in her academic pursuits and her unwavering commitment to supporting the well-being of students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Suchita is also pursuing research at Oxford University focused on the pastoral challenges faced by international families.  \n\nGeorgina Sayers\, Assistant Head Pastoral and Wellbeing\, Ardingly College \n  \n  \n  \n\nDr Elena Martellozzo\, Associate Professor in Criminology\, Associate Director\, Centre for Child Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS)\, Middlesex University \nDr Elena Martellozzo is an Associate Professor in Criminology and Associate Director at the Centre for Child Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS) at Middlesex University. Elena has been working in the area of cyber violence for 15 years and is now recognised as a world leading expert in the area\, focusing primarily on online harms\, online safety and is involved in policy debates at the intersection of technology and human behaviour. One of Elena’s key focuses is to develop innovative research and sharing her findings in international fora. She continually attracts research funding in highly sensitive areas with government departments including the police\, the Internet Watch Foundation\, the NSPCC\, the Children Commissioner for England\, the Home Office. She has acted as an advisor on child online protection and online violence against women and girls to governments and practitioners in Italy (since 2004) and Bahrain (2016) to support the development of national child internet safety policy frameworks. Elena is a lead researcher in the area and has led a number of high impact project\, nationally and internationally. As a published peer-reviewed author\, and well-established national and international Criminologist\, she is regularly invited as a speaker by the BBC\, New York Post\, Sunday Times\, The Guardian\, Channel 4\, Radio 4\, ITV\, The Times Radio. \n\nPaula Bradbury\, Criminology and Policing Practice Lecturer\, University of Middlesex\n \nPaula Bradbury is a lecturer in Criminology and Policing Practice at the University of Middlesex.  She is also the Senior Researcher at the Centre for Abuse & Trauma Studies engaging in multiple research projects and bid writing opportunities\, the results have led to several successful grants awarded. She is a doctoral researcher studying for a PhD in Criminology\, exploring the appropriateness of policy and policing practice in response to adolescents sharing nudes. \nPaula is a published\, peer reviewed author\, specialising in the field of online harms\, child sexual abuse and exploitation\, stalking\, sexual violence\, offender pathways and adolescent digital behaviours. She has a keen interest in understanding sexual behaviours in cyberspace and how our safeguarding policies and policing practices need to evolve to meet the challenges of the Metaverse. She provides private online harms consultation to public\, private\, and civil service organisations\, both in the UK and abroad. \nPaula has also presented to the international Ministry of Justices’ on Online Harms and the risks of Violence Against Women and Girls in a digital age\, conducted media panel discussions on the topic of risks through sexual image sharing platforms\, and gives talks on sexual image sharing\, legislation\, policy and practice. Paula began her career working in Policing Intelligence as a Sexual Offences Analyst\, and was the National Child Sexual Abuse Lead at Victim Support. \n\nBoglarka Meggyesfalvi\, Researcher in Child Protection and Online Safety\, Middlesex University \nBoglárka Meggyesfalvi is a researcher and doctoral candidate\, focusing on child protection and online harms. She is engaged in ongoing research projects that aim to influence policy and practice in the field of child online safety. Boglárka is a published author\, having written peer-reviewed articles and practical guides that examine youth participation\, policing social media\, and critical issues such as child sexual exploitation and first-person generated intimate imagery. \nWith extensive experience in international project management and evaluation in the EU and Latin-America\, Boglárka has successfully coordinated initiatives across multiple countries aimed at improving youth participation and child protection systems\, as well as working in the areas of advocacy and legislative compliance. \nShe previously served as a Child Rights Representative senior officer for the Hungarian Home Office\, where she engaged with high-ranking government officials to audit alternative care providers\, and promote child rights initiatives. She contributed to the development of policies aimed at preventing child sexual abuse and exploitation online. Additionally\, her work includes delivering training for police forces\, professionals in educational settings\, and organise expert seminars on safeguarding children online and offline.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/sacpa-bsa-annual-safeguarding-conference-3/
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SUMMARY:BSA & IELA - Exploring identity and intersectionality
DESCRIPTION:Date: November 25\, 2024\nTime: 09:30 – 16:30\nCost: Full Member – £235\, Additional Member Fee – £110\,  Affiliate Member – £325\, Additional Affiliate Member Fee – £140  Non-member – £430\nAudience: Leaders and managers\, Boarding staff\, HR\, EDI leaders\, Anyone with an interest and passion for inclusion\nPlatform: Zoom (online) – conference\n\n\nCourse outline \nIn today’s world mental health is a prevalent issue which affects us all. Each individual has different experiences and identities which can affect their mental health. From discrimination\, prejudice\, feeling like you don’t fit in or being the ‘only one’. This  conference will look at how these experiences can cause trauma and negatively impact a person’s mental health. It will dive into aspects of identity that can also be invisible and interchanging and identify how navigating this can cause distress.  Learn how to how to best support the mental health of those in our communities and understand each person as individual while respecting their identities. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nIdentity and self esteem\nHow to support students to care for their mental health as a member of a marginalised community\nInvisible identities and mental health\nUnderstanding mental health as an intersectionality\nSchool case study: Supporting mental health in school\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nTo create a positive and supportive environment for EDI leaders to learn and share best practice\nTo identify helpful strategies when supporting mental health and inclusion\n\nBook now \nView the programme \n\nProgramme: \n09:30 – 10:30 \nIntroduction and Understanding intersectionality and belonging  \nMain points to cover: \n\nThe complexities that come with certain identities e.g the stereotypes\, challenges etc – what are we doing to combat these.\nCodeswitching\, ‘fitting in’ hiding who you are\, and understanding the why.\nOther aspects that can affect this\, political stance\, world events etc.\nFinding out – where do I belong? How school can support this.\nDeveloping cultural skills and cultural confidence.\nUnderstanding children may have trauma from their experienced as being members of marginalised communities – supporting students to heal from past experiences.\nUnderstanding no group experience is monolithic e.g – the importance of being aware of these cultural differences and also induvial experiences.\n\n\nChair: Gaelle Sullivan\, Director of Research\, Inclusion and IELA \nSpeaker: Sadia Hussain-Şavuk\, Diversity\, Equality & Inclusion Lead\, Fettes College \nBreak  10:30 – 10:45 \n10:45 – 12:00 \nPanel session: Creating safe spaces for all students to explore their identities  \nMain points to be discussed: \n\nHow important are the factors that shape our identity\, how do they impact how we see students showing up?\nWhen thinking about the boarding dynamic and supporting international student challenges and multiple identities\, what approaches have you found that works?\nLet’s talk about the concept of the ‘Third’ identity\, how can we support students to feel confident in all of their identities and support their choosing/changing?\nNaviagting the home environment and culture when beliefs and support is very different to what is experienced at school.\nWhat are some things that work very well in your setting which helps develop comfortability and confidence?\nHow do you know when students are showing up as their authentic selves and feel safe?\n\n\nChair: Gaelle Sullivan\, Director of Research\, Inclusion and IELA \nSpeaker:  \nJemma Holroyd\, Head of Student Wellbeing \,Queen Ethelburga’s \nTyler John\, Head of Diversity\, Equality and Inclusion Teacher of PSHE\, St Paul’s School \nLucretia Fields\, Vice Principal\, UWC Atlantic  \nLunch 12:00 – 13:00 \n13:00 – 14:00 \nChanging the culture for staff and students whilst supporting identity  \nMain points to cover: \n\nChanges made to staff recruitment and results seen.\nThe importance of addressing bias and encouraging self-reflection.\nShifting the whole school culture.\nUnderstanding the need for comfort to explore identity/intersectionality.\nFelsted’s understanding of the need for flexibility when exploring identity/intersectionality.\nPractical examples of changes/initiatives made in school which support intersectionality.\nFostering an environment of psychological safety\, support and celebration for all.\nSupporting difficult /sensitive conversations between staff and students and students and students.\n\nChair:  Rebekah Hayward\, Research and Inclusion Officer \nSpeaker: Rebecca Purdy\, Assistant Head: Staff\, Co-Curricular\, EDI Lead\, Felsted School \nBreak 14:00 – 14:15 \n14:15 – 15:15 \nCase study – A schools EDI journey reflecting on the high lows and outcomes \nMain points covered: \n\nThe EDI journey how it began\, doing the work and overcoming obstacles.\nSocial media as a tool and as a hinderance- school example.\nMaking EDI a priority .\nHow are children’s identities catered too and supported? How does this evolve?\nHow did you approach/support invisible identities?\nHow did you know students felt supported?\nCreating a shift in mindset of staff and students.\nHow to reflect and evaluate progress and areas for further development.\nThe impacts of mental health on school life\, friendships and identity.\n\nChair:  Rebekah Hayward\, Research and Inclusion Officer \nSpeaker: Susan Peña\, Admissions & Communications Manager\, Villiers School \nJill Storey\, Head\, Villiers School \nBreak 15:15 – 15:30 \n15:30 – 16:30 \nIntersectionality though an anti-racism lens \nMain points covered: \n\nUnderstanding the lenses of race/ethnicity and culture.\nAwareness of trauma and triggers different ethnic groups experience.\nThe importance of having the EDI subject knowledge as power to support student needs.\nThe complexities of identity\, and the varying experiences within intersectional groups.\nChanging the perspective e.g ethnic minority – Global majority.\nHow to develop effective EDI initiatives which support the varying racial intersectional identities in your community?\nHow to harness and analyse your data to create effective change and positive action.\n\nChair:  Rebekah Hayward\, Research and Inclusion Officer \nSpeaker: Amjad Ali\, Assistant Headteacher and EDI consultant\, co-founder of The BAMEed Network \n16:30 \nConference close \n\nSpeaker: \nGaelle Sullivan\, Director of Research\, Inclusion and IELA \nGaelle is Director of Research\, Inclusion and IELA and joined the BSA in January 2023. She is an experienced senior leader and has worked in a range of state and independent schools. She is a qualified SENCO and holds a Masters Degree in Inclusive Education. Prior to joining the BSA\, Gaelle was Deputy Head Pastoral\, DSL and Head of Boarding at an all-girls independent school in the South-East. \n\nRebekah Hayward\, Research\, Inclusion and IELA Officer IELA  \nRebekah is Research and Inclusion Officer and joined the BSA in April 2023. She is a qualified Primary School Teacher and holds a Masters in Education: International Development and Social Justice. She is the Co-Founder of ‘Increasing Black Representation’ a mentoring scheme for students and sits on the Diversity Board for the Health Tech company Medito. In her previous roles Rebekah has worked in Ed Tech analysing research and creating diverse curriculum content for schools. She has also worked with IESE reviewing literature and resources to ensure they promote equity\, diversity and inclusion. \n\nSadia Hussain-Şavuk\, Diversity\, Equality & Inclusion Lead\, Fettes College \nIndependent EDI Consultant \nSadia started her teaching career in 2008 as a Biology teacher after having initially worked for the NHS as a scientist. Her interests and passions quickly led her into pastoral support where she recognised the need for more inclusive practices in education. She now works as an EDI education consultant specialising in anti-racism practices\, and  sits on a number of steering committees in EDI focused areas of Scottish education. In addition to her work towards improving experiences of BAME pupils in education she actively advocates for opportunities to create a more diverse teaching workforce and provisions of support to improve BAME staff retention. \n\nJemma Holroyd\, Head of Student Wellbeing \,Queen Ethelburg \nHead of Student Wellbeing at Queen Ethelburga’s. I have been in education for 20 years in both the private and public sector. I have worked at QE for 16 years and oversee the pastoral and boarding provision; working with over 800 boarders from over 60 different nationalities with a team of 70 boarding staff. Ensuring everyone feels heard\, is part of the community and can thrive is my top priority. I am also the safeguarding governor for a federation of three local primary schools in North Yorkshire. \n\n Tyler John\, Head of Diversity\, Equality and Inclusion Teacher of PSHE\, St Pauls School \nTyler John (he/they) is the Head of Diversity\, Equality and Inclusion and Teacher of PSHE at St Paul’s School in Barnes. Tyler started their career as an intern\, and has delivered strategic DEI work across a number of different sectors. They really value the role that education plays in facilitating diverse and inclusive spaces\, and enjoys working with open-minded and forward-thinking students in their role. \n\nLucretia Fields\, Vice Principal\, UWC Atlantic  \nLucretia grew up in Liverpool in the north-west of England. She is an alumna of UWC Atlantic. Lucretia has enjoyed a teaching career spanning over twenty years and also worked in children’s social care prior to becoming Vice Principal at UWC Atlantic. \n  \n\nRebecca Purdy\, Assistant Head: Staff\, Co-Curricular\, EDI Lead at Felsted School \nRebecca has worked in various roles at Felsted School\, a co-ed boarding and day school\, for the last 15 years. Rebecca is from Nottingham\, the granddaughter of a miner and the first in the family to attend university; she has lived with Type One Diabetes for the last 30 years. Rebecca began her career in education immediately after graduating and completed a Masters in Education: Literacy and Social Justice in September 2019. Since then\, Rebecca has formally taken the lead in EDI matters at Felsted and has had a particular focus on supporting the integration of International Students whilst also working to root out unconscious biases in school practices. \n\nSusan Peña\, Admissions & Communications Manager\, Villiers School \nSusan Peña (she/her) is the Admissions\, Marketing & Communications Manager at Villiers School. \nSusan is an Alumna of Villiers School and holds an Honours Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the National University of Ireland\, Galway\, as well as an International Diploma from Shannon College of Hotel Management. Susan’s background includes 12 years of experience working in hotels and resorts in both Europe and the United States. Susan returned to Ireland with her family in 2018. Susan is DEI Lead at Villiers and has a particular passion for people\, relationships\, and celebrating diversity. In 2020\, Susan achieved a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Limerick\, with a research focus on Marketing and Communications\, and most recently\, in 2023\, achieved a Graduate Diploma in Equality\, Diversity & Inclusion from the University of Limerick. \nSusan is a current mentor in DEI for Network Ireland\, and a member of the Diversity and Inclusion in Education Network (DIEN) in Ireland. \n\nJill Storey\, Head\, Villiers School \nJill holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and Philosophy and a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the National University of Ireland\, Galway. Jill has also achieved a Higher Diploma in Secondary Education and Teaching from University College Dublin\, a Graduate Diploma in Additional Educational Needs (AEN) from the Church of Ireland College of Education\, a Graduate Diploma in Equality\, Diversity & Inclusion from the University of Limerick\, and in 2024 qualified in Coaching Practice & Ethics (Specialising in Educational Leadership Coaching). \nJill taught English and led the Additional Educational Needs (AEN) department at Villiers School for more than eleven years\, before being appointed Head of School in 2011. Under Jill’s leadership\, in 2017\, Villiers was the second school in Ireland to be authorised as an IB World School. Jill leads the DEI Working Group in Villiers School\, and her passion for equity and inclusion consistently inspires the entire school community. \n\nAmjad Ali\, Assistant Headteacher and EDI consultant\, co-founder of The BAMEed Network \n\n\nAmjad Ali (@TeachLeadAAli) is a teacher\, trainer\, TEDx speaker and Senior Leader. He currently works four days a week in a start up secondary school and offers CPD/INSET on his other day. Amjad has spent his teaching career working in challenging\, diverse schools. He is a qualified SENDCO and was also trained as an Advanced Skills Teacher in Teaching and Learning. Before stepping into the world of education\, he spent time as Play Worker and Teaching Assistant in Young Offender Prisons.\n\n\n\n\nAmjad has delivered CPD to all sectors in education from Early Careers teachers to Executive/Head Teachers and CEOs; delivering on a range of topics\, all across the United Kingdom and different parts of the world. He has worked with over 250 schools and 1000s of students. \nAmjad is ambitious and committed to making a difference to the education system. He is at ‘the chalk-face’ teacher\, who shares ‘what works’ in an engaging and easy to understand format. Amjad also writes a reflective blog entitled NewToThePost where he discusses many elements of his leadership and experience. \n\n\n\n\nFor Amjad\, education is about ensuring wherever you come from\, whatever your parents do or not do\, does not impact on a students’ potential of success. Whatever success means to that young person\, it should be found and celebrated. \nAmjad has previously co-organised some of the country’s largest teachmeets such as #TMOxford and #TMLondon. He also presents keynotes and offers workshops and inspirational addresses at various educational events such as the Telegraph Festival of Education\, #NRocks #SRocks\, National subject conferences and many others all around the United Kingdom. Amjad’s sharing ‘portfolio’ involves the setting up international initiatives such as #TwitterCoachingED and #CultureBoxED.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/bsa-iela-mental-health-and-identity/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Irish boarding conference
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \n\n\nDate: Tuesday November 19\, 2024\nTime: 09:00 – 16:30\nCost: BSA Full Member – £110\, BSA Affiliate Member – £140\, Non-member – £165\nAudience: Head\, Deputy Head\, Bursar\, Registrar\, Head of Boarding\, Marketing\, Admissions\, Medical\, Head of EAL\, DoS\, Pastoral staff.\nVenue: Blackrock College\, Dublin\n\n\nIn the current climate\, Ireland and Northern Ireland have a good opportunity to showcase the opportunities boarding can afford to the international market\, demonstrating close links with Europe\, strong academic credentials\, English learning and\, often\, more affordable fees. Our annual conference will consider strategies to boost your school globally\, working with agents and differentiating approaches for different markets. It will also include guidance on monitoring your financial performance indicators and external macro-economic trends\, as well as how you can embed meaningful strategies and processes to promote positive mental health for students and staff. \nSessions will include: \n\nGlobal marketing and positioning\nFinancial stress\nSupporting complex needs in boarding\nBlue sky thinking\, focussing on issues and trends in Irish boarding\nChild protection and safeguarding headlines for 2024-25\nResults of the BSA boarding survey for Northern Ireland and ROI\nBSA and ISBA Q&A\n\nBOOK NOW \nVIEW PROGRAMME \nThe conference is suitable for anyone in a boarding role\, and traditionally has a good mix of both school leaders and other boarding practitioners. \nThe annual Irish Boarding Survey is now open and will help inform discussion at the conference. We would love to hear about the experience in your school. Click here to complete the survey. \n\nSpeakers: \n \nBethan Hudson\, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director\, BAISIS\, BSA Group \nBethan Waddington joined the BSA team as Training Manager in September 2017. Bethan has worked in two independent boarding schools in the UK and Switzerland\, the latter as Housemistress to 36 pupils. Following her time in Switzerland\, she was a Pastoral Manager for an inner-city state academy before working in the charity sector for Debrett’s running the ‘Debrett’s Foundation’ training programme. \nIn her role\, Bethan plans and manages all Day Seminars\, Conferences\, INSET and Consultancy\, as well as being Director of BAISIS. She believes boarding can be a positive force for young people and in order to fully support their needs staff can never learn too much. As such she is passionate about the CPD BSA delivers to our pastoral communities in the UK and worldwide. \n\nDale Wilkins\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance \nDale joined BSA in 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards\, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In 2019 he assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme\, including seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on safeguarding and inspection matters for BSA\, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter\, and has developed a process of BSA Accreditation for international members. He liaises with ISI\, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards\, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit\, which he first produced in 2002\, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding. For 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College\, Dale became Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992\, followed by Deputy Head in 2007\, and subsequently also DSL. He has been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board. \n\nDavid Walker\, Executive Director\, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB \nDavid is the BSA Director 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. \n  \n\nJohn Murphie\, COO\, Independent Schools’ Bursars Association  \nJohn has been with the ISBA since February 2017. He is responsible for the head office internal organisation and functions and he is the main point of contact for advice and guidance to schools. John spent 31 years in the Royal Navy retiring in 2007. Since then\, he has worked as the Chapter Clerk in Portsmouth Cathedral\, managed a Barristers’ Chambers in London and been Bursar in two schools before joining ISBA. \n  \n\nKathleen Sweeney\, Scotland and NI & Republic of Ireland Regional Secretary\, Independent Schools’ Bursars Association  \nKathleen is a qualified accountant (ACCA) who has worked exclusively within Charity and Education. She spent 21 years working in Higher Education in posts with Glasgow Caledonian University and Glasgow University. The next 16 years were as both Bursar and Company Secretary in a large Scottish independent school. She joined the team at the Independent Schools Bursars Association in April 2023 as Regional Secretary for Scotland\, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Having also served as a Trustee on the Board of the Scottish Council of Independent Schools\, and as a current Trustee and member of the Finance Committee of Glasgow Clyde College\, she is experienced in Governance and operating at Board level. \nYvonne Markey\, Principal\, Blackrock College \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nTiernan Mealiffe\, Director of Boarding\, Blackrock College \n\nRene Droomer\, Associate Research Psychologist\, Pneuma Healthcare \n  \n  \n  \n\nDr Colin Gorman\, Clinical Psychologist\, Ulster University & CEO\, Pneuma Healthcare \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \nSophy McFarlane\, Associate Psychologist\, Pneuma Healthcare \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/irish-boarding-conference-2/
LOCATION:Blackrock College\, 104 Rock Road Booterstown A94 FK84 Booterstown
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:BSA/BAISIS - Visa and immigration conference
DESCRIPTION:Date: October 08\, 2024\nTime: 09:45 – 16:30\nCost: BSA/BAISIS Full Member – £235\, BSA/BAISIS Additional Member Fee – £110\,  BSA Affiliate Member – £325\, BSA Additional Affiliate Member Fee – £140\, BSA/BAISIS Full Member Whole School Fee – £490\, Non-member – £430\nAudience: Admissions\, Marketing\, Deputy Head\, Head of Boarding\, Head\, Bursar\, Education Guardians\, Agents\nPlatform: Zoom (online) – conference\n\n\nSponsored by: \n \n\nCourse Outline: \nFor schools who sponsor international students\, keeping up to date with an ever-changing immigration law landscape whilst navigating complex sponsor licence requirements can be burdensome. Our autumn BSA and BAISIS Visa and Immigration conference brings delegates the latest in visas and immigration relevant to the education sector\, direct from the experts.  Addressing key issues from our members including changes to the Student and Child Student visa route\, Student Sponsor Licence best practice\, key CAS considerations and what to expect from Home Office (UKVI) inspections\, select sessions combine to provide a holistic\, sector-specific update. Delegates will hear from a host of experts and practitioners to develop wider knowledge\, understanding and best practice around this critical area of compliance.  BSA and BAISIS will facilitate questions directly from members to our experts\, including Home Office representatives\, throughout the day and encourage delegates to come prepared with questions for our panels.  \nTraining topics will include: \n\nKey sector issues relating to visas and immigration \nInternational recruitment trends and data analysis \nHome Office (UKVI) inspections: what to expect \nChild Student / Student visa route updates \nStudent Sponsor policy developments \nSponsor licence compliance trends and duties \nKey CAS allocation and BCA considerations \nReporting\, monitoring and record-keeping responsibilities. \n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nIncreased awareness of the visa process for schools as sponsor licence holders \nIncreased understanding of the CAS application process \nIncreased understanding of the wider visa and immigration process\, timelines and services. \n\nBOOK NOW \n\nProgramme: \n09:45 – 10:00 \nWelcome and update: immigration state of the nation  \nA review of where we are now as a sector and what’s to come. \nChair: Kate Hollyer\, Director of Legal and Public Affairs\, BSA Group \n10:00 – 10:30 \nKeynote: Update from the Department for Business and Trade \nSpeaker: Christopher Boobier\, Regional Lead for Middle East and Pakistan\, China and Hong Kong International Education\, Department for Business and Trade \n10:30 – 10:45 \nBreak \n10:45 – 11:30 \nAssessing your non-school care arrangements for international students \nUKVI are becoming increasingly focused on this important area and how sponsors are vetting non-school care arrangements. These care arrangements cover boarders outside term time in the UK (guardians and home stays)\, medical and emergency term time contingencies\, and international day pupils. Whilst regulation in this area is anticipated\, UKVI expect sponsors to be proactive in ensuring care arrangements are acceptable. \nChair: Caroline Nixon\, International and Membership Director\, BSA Group \nSpeaker: \n\nMarie de Tito Mount\, CEO\, Westbourne School\nAndrew Berrow\, Deputy Head (operations)\, Blundell’s School \n\n11:30 – 11:45 \nBreak \n11:45 – 12:30 \nInternational enrolment and perception snapshot 2024 \nAn analysis of survey data from BSA Certified Agents and BAISIS school heads\, registrars and marketing leads on the changing nature of international student recruitment to UK boarding schools. The panel will address the key findings and the impact on the UK boarding market’s ability to recruit and retain international students.  \nChair: Dale Wilkins\, Executive Director Accreditation/Compliance and Scotland/Wales\, BSA Group \nSpeaker: \n\nAileen Kane\, Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer of BSA Group\nCaroline Nixon\, International and Membership Director\, BSA Group\nBethan Hudson\, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director\, BAISIS\, BSA Group\n Kate Hollyer\, Director of Legal and Public Affairs\, BSA Group\n\n12:30 – 13:30 \nLunch \n13:30 – 14:30 \nHome Office: Policy and Operations update \nHear from representatives of the Home Office Study Operations and Student Policy departments about the Child Student / Student visa routes and future developments\, plus pose your questions to the team – an unmissable session! \nChair: Kate Hollyer\, Director of Legal and Public Affairs\, BSA Group \nSpeakers: \n\nKay Stones\, Engagement Officers for the Study Engagement Team\, Home Office\nJacob Baldwin\, Engagement Officers for the Study Engagement Team\, Home Office\n\n14:30 – 14:45 \nBreak \n14:45 – 15:45 \nLegal update: UKVI compliance and Educational Oversight \nAn overview of compliance trends and areas of focus from leading immigration Sponsor audit\, training and compliance expert. \nChair: Beth Hudson\, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director\, BAISIS\, BSA Group \nSpeaker: Hazar El-Chamaa\, Senior Associate\, Penningtons Manches LLP \n15:45 – 16:15 \nIn conversation with immigration experts & conference close \nConference close \n\nSpeakers: Kate Hollyer\, Director of Legal and Public Affairs\, BSA Group Kate is Legal and Public Affairs Director of BSA Group and Director of BSA Group Legal Services Ltd\, BSA Group’s SRA-regulated law firm. As a qualified solicitor of England and Wales with more than 12 years’ experience advising clients on UK immigration and nationality law\, Kate supports members with all UK immigration matters including UKVI sponsor licence compliance. Kate is a member of the Home Office Education Advisory Group and is the boarding sector representative for this group. Prior to joining BSA in 2022 Kate was Partner and Head of Department at a leading full-service UK law firm. Having resided in state\, preparatory and senior school boarding houses since 2014 with her Housemaster husband\, Kate has a unique perspective of boarding life. \n  \n\nChristopher Boobier\, Regional Lead for Middle East and Pakistan\, China and Hong Kong International Education\, Department for Business and Trade   \n  \n\n Bethan Hudson\, Executive Director Specialist Services and Director\, BAISIS\, BSA Group Bethan Waddington joined the BSA team as Training Manager in September 2017. Bethan has worked in two independent boarding schools in the UK and Switzerland\, the latter as Housemistress to 36 pupils. Following her time in Switzerland\, she was a Pastoral Manager for an inner-city state academy before working in the charity sector for Debrett’s running the ‘Debrett’s Foundation’ training programme. In her role\, Bethan plans and manages all Day Seminars\, Conferences\, INSET and Consultancy\, as well as being Director of BAISIS. She believes boarding can be a positive force for young people and in order to fully support their needs staff can never learn too much. As such she is passionate about the CPD BSA delivers to our pastoral communities in the UK and worldwide. \n  \n\n Caroline Nixon\, International and Membership Director\, BSA Group Caroline has worked in international education for over 30 years.  She is International & Membership Director at Boarding Schools’ Association\, and Director of Caroline Nixon Education Ltd.\, as well as a member of the advisory group to the British Government’s All Party Parliamentary Group for international students. Caroline set up and runs the BSA educational agent certification scheme and is involved with the BSA’s accreditation of international schools.  Her background is in international education marketing and she also set up and ran a leading international school in the UK.  She has helped several UK schools to establish new overseas branches\, advised an international school opening in the UK\, set up a guardianship agency for an educational group\, and advises schools on international marketing and academic and pastoral provision for their international students. \n  \n\n Dale Wilkins\, Executive Director Accreditation/Compliance and Scotland/Wales\, BSA Group Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards\, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme\, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA\, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter and has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI\, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards\, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit\, which he first produced in 2002\, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding. For 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College\, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992\, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007\, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board. \n\nKay Stones\, Engagement Officers for the Study Engagement Team\, Home Office Our team creates and delivers bespoke workshops to educational sponsors and sector bodies. In particular\, our Document Verification workshop has been delivered to over one thousand delegates from across the sector. We also attend industry associations and events across the country such as ARC\, BSA\, Mainland\, the British Council alongside many others. \n  \n\nJacob Baldwin\, Engagement Officers for the Study Engagement Team\, Home Office Our team creates and delivers bespoke workshops to educational sponsors and sector bodies. In particular\, our Document Verification workshop has been delivered to over one thousand delegates from across the sector. We also attend industry associations and events across the country such as ARC\, BSA\, Mainland\, the British Council alongside many others. \n  \n\nMarie de Tito Mount\, CEO\, Westbourne School  Marie has over two decades of strategic leadership\, entrepreneurship and business development experience. Prior to joining Westbourne in 2018\, Marie founded\, led and successfully exited a digital agency in the high-value travel sector. Previous roles include Managing Director\, The Big Domain\, Head of Proposition Development at Cendant Corp and commissioned military service in the British Army. \n  \n  \n\nAndrew Berrow\, Deputy Head (operations)\, Blundell’s School  \nAndrew is currently the Deputy Head (operations) at Blundell’s School in Devon. In previous iterations\, he has been the Head of Boarding for five years and a housemaster for thirteen. He has also been a tutor on the BSA Certificate in Boarding Practice course until recently. \nHe has been in charge of the visa operation in the school since the UKBA first set it up. He has noted many changes over that time\, not least in inspection regimes. \n  \n\nHazar El-Chamaa\, Immigration Partner\, Penningtons Manches LLP \nHazar has over eight years’ immigration experience and has been advising education providers on all aspects of compliance\, restructuring and business strategies since the inception of Tier 4. Her experience also includes advising on appeals\, judicial review applications and challenges to Home Office decisions which affect sponsors. Hazar is a frequent speaker on immigration law and gives training on sponsor compliance and prevention of illegal working. She is an elected executive committee member of ILPA (Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association) and has been recommended by the Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession. Penningtons is recognised as a key link between the Home Office and educational institutions in the process of implementing and working through PBS reform.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/bsa-baisis-visa-and-immigration-conference-2/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:BAISIS & BSA International Student UK University Day
DESCRIPTION:Date: October 02\, 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 10:00 – 16:00\n\n\n\nCost: BAISIS/BSA member – FOC\, Non-member – £470\n\n\n\nAudience: Year 10\, 11\, 12 and 13 international students; Heads of Careers; HE advisors\, Heads of EAL\n\n\n\nPlatform: Zoom (online)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by: \n  \n\nCourse Outline: \nBSA and BAISIS are delighted to announce our fifth online university event aimed specifically at international and ex-pat pupils. This free event is for international students and the staff who advise them on university entrance. Our international student university day provides the opportunity for international and ex-pat pupils to engage directly with universities in the UK who offer courses and support with international students in mind. \nFrom aspirational pathways like medicine\, law and economics to alternative study pathways and career routes that the UK is popular for\, the universities involved in this university day will provide advice\, guidance and signposting to international students already studying in the UK around the decision-making and application process. \nThe event addresses feedback from international pupils at BSA schools on their concerns about entering university and is aimed at Year 10\, 11\, 12 and 13 international students as well as Heads of Careers\, HE advisors and Heads of EAL.  The day is completely free of charge and schools may send as many members of staff and students as they wish.   \nWhen booking your place\, please give one staff name to secure your spot. Later you will be able to add contact details for as many students and staff as you would like to attend.  \nDOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME \nBOOK NOW
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/baisis-bsa-international-student-university-day-uki-2/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:HIEDA/BSA – Health and Wellbeing conference
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n\n\nDate: 8 July 2024 \nTime: 09:00 – 16:30 \nCost: HIEDA/BSA Full Member – £215\, HIEDA/BSA Additional Full Member – £110\, BSA Affiliate Member – £325\, BSA Additional Affiliate Member – £140\, Non-member – £430\, BSA Full Member Whole School Rate – £490\nAudience: Independent and boarding school nurses\, matrons\, health and wellbeing leads\, pastoral staff\nPlatform: Zoom\n\n\nOur annual conference is the highlight of our events programme and the culmination of another academic year. \nOur focus last year was on anxiety and the importance of inclusion for sufferers. This year our focus will be on the ever-changing landscape of health care and how we can support everyone\, young people and adults\, in fulfilling their potential both physically and emotionally. We will soon be announcing more detail and information regarding our speakers. \nBOOK NOW \n\nProgramme: \n09:00 – 09:45 \nSession 1 – Inspirational Speaker – Building Emotional Regulation for Whole School Wellbeing \nThe core of resilience and wellbeing resides in emotional awareness and regulation. This talk delves into the developmental aspects of emotional regulation in children\, explores strategies to enhance their capacity to tolerate challenging emotions\, fosters the cultivation of emotional intelligence\, and examines methods to maintain composure when confronted with emotional triggers. \n\nChair: Lee Glaser\, Executive Director\, Specialist Services\n\nSpeaker: Alicia Drummond\, Founder of Teen Tips LTD\n\n\n\n09:45 – 10:00 \nBreak \n10:00 – 10:45 \nSession 2 – Discussion Group – The role of Health Professionals in our Schools \nSome schools have large Health Centre teams whilst others have different arrangements to support the community. Regardless of the structure\, Health professionals serve the community in many ways and will often be the first to spot trends amongst the pupil and staff body. This session will consider the ways in which Health Professionals can support and improve the wellbeing and performance of its community. \n\nChair: Lee Glaser\, Executive Director\, Specialist Services\n\nSpeakers:\n\nSkyler Moulder\, Lead Nurse at The Leys in Cambridge\nLouise Howel\, Head of HIEDA\n\n\n\n\n\n10:45 – 11:00 \nBreak \n11:00 – 11:45 \nSession 3 – School Nurse – Coaching\, mentoring and supervision. Getting the best out of yourself and the team \nWho supports the supporter? This session looks at the importance of clinical supervision and school nurses receiving the right support on a timely basis. This ensures that the Health Centre team has the resilience to support the wider community and reduces the risk of burnout. \n\nChair: Louise Howel\, Head of HIEDA\n\nSpeaker: Rosie McManus\, HIEDA Nurse Advisor\n\n\n\n11:45 – 12:00 \nBreak \n12:00 – 12:45 \nSession 4 – School Nurse – The HC in International Schools. What we can learn from each other \nHealth Centres in International Schools play a significant role in supporting the community. Are there differences in the way they operate when compared with schools in the UK? What can we learn and how can we collaborate? This session aims to look at similarities and differences with the aim of improving practices across the world. \n\nChair: Lee Glaser\, Executive Director\, Specialist Services\n\nSpeaker: Natalie Bosmans\, School Nurse\n\n\n\n12:45 – 13:30 \nLunch \n13:30 – 14:15 \nSession 5 – Discussion Group – Seacole Standard and lessons learnt. \nThe Seacole Standard was introduced in September 2024 with the aim of supporting all schools in providing an excellent level of health and medical care. Nine schools have undergone a review and fed back to us on the process. This session considers the positive aspects of working towards The Seacole Standard and the lesson learned along the way. \n\nChair: Lee Glaser\, Executive Director\, Specialist Services\n\nPanel:\n\nLouise Howel\, Head of HIEDA\nAlice Beard\, Health Centre Manager\, Sherborne Girls\n\n\n\n\n\n14:15 – 14:30 \nBreak \n14:30 – 15:15 \nSession 6 – School Nurses – Current challenges and approaches (Eating disorders\, vaping\, mental health\, neurodiversity….) \nThis session is designed provide up to date guidance and practical strategies for supporting young people with disordered eating. It will also cover a range of other subjects that could have a negative impact on a young person’s mental health along with strategies to support them. \n\nChair: Louise Howel\, Head of HIEDA\n\nSpeaker: Lisa Jones\, Co-founder of HeadStrong\n\n\n\n15:15 – 15:30 \nBreak \n15:30 – 16:15 \nSession 7 – School Nurses – Current challenges and approaches continued… \nContinuing on from session 6\, this session aims to  provide up to date guidance and current thinking on other current areas of concern including vaping\, snus and substance abuse. \n\nChair: Louise Howel\, Head of HIEDA\n\nSpeaker: Dave Parvin\, Drug Sense UK\n\n\n\n16:15 \nConference close \n\nLee Glaser\, Executive Director\, Specialist Services     \nLee has extensive experience in pastoral care. Prior to becoming Headmaster and CEO at Taunton School in Somerset he was the School’s Deputy Head which involved leading the pastoral team and being the Designated Safeguarding Lead. Outstanding support for student and staff wellbeing has always been at the heart of his approach and the School was recently shortlisted for a TES Award for excellence in this area. \nLee has always worked closely with the School’s medical team which provided excellent support to the community\, particularly during the COVID pandemic. He is excited to be supporting HIEDA members in delivering the highest quality of care in their own environments. \n\nLouise Howel\, Head of HIEDA \nLouise Howel is a paediatric nurse with experience in children’s A & E\, plastics and respiratory care. Health visitor for ten years.  Nine years experience in independent school nursing working in a mix of boarding and day school settings. Six years experience as Health centre manager most recently at Wycliffe College. \n  \n\nAlicia Drummond\, Founder of Teen Tips LTD \nAlicia is passionate about providing evidenced-based advice to parents\, teachers and all those looking after children and young people\, so they can be pro-active in supporting the mental health and wellbeing of those in their care.  Alicia also works directly with children and young people empowering them to look after their mental health and wellbeing. \nAlicia draws on the latest research from psychotherapy\, psychology and neuroscience\, along with her experience of working as an adolescent therapist. \nAlicia is a BACP accredited therapist\, parenting expert\, sought after keynote speaker\, member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for a Fit and Healthy Childhood\, author and a mother.  She is regularly sought for her expert opinion by the media. \nHaving worked with schools across the UK for more than a decade delivering webinars\, talks and workshops to parents\, carers\, staff\, and pupils; in 2020 Alicia created The Wellbeing Hub. This award-winning platform offers a proactive approach to young people’s mental health and wellbeing by providing evidenced-based support for the whole school community – staff\, parents\, carers and pupils.  The platform is currently impacting more than 130\,000 pupils in over 220 schools. \n\nSkyler Moulder\, Lead Nurse at The Leys in Cambridge \nSkyler did her Adult Nursing BSc at Kings College London in 2011 and went straight into community nursing. After the birth of her first son she stumbled into community school nursing and never looked back. During her time as a community school nurse she covered primary and secondary schools all across Cambridgeshire. She completed training such as the CAMHS foundation module\, Sexual Health and Contraception module and was trained in Safeguarding Children Level 3. She completed her PG Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing in 2016 when she was pregnant with her second son\, which she later topped up to a full MSc in 2023 when she was pregnant with her daughter! This also included qualifying as a Nurse Prescriber. Skyler co-lead the development of a 0-19 Duty Desk and the introduction of the Chathealth text service in Cambridgeshire Community Services. In 2019 she became a Team Manager for the CCS Healthy Child Programme – managing a team of Nursery Nurses\, Health Visitors and School Nurses during the pandemic. In 2020 she was recruited to be the Lead Nurse at The Leys in Cambridge\, to lead a team covering 24 hour care for around 575 pupils (over half of which are boarders). This is where she is now and where her passion for independent school nursing started. \n\nRosie McManus\, HIEDA Nurse Advisor \nTrained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children Rosie came to school nursing in the independent sector 16 years ago. With a passion for boarding pastoral and health care Rosie has developed an interest in the understanding and development of the health needs of boarding school students. \n  \n\nLisa Jones\, Co-founder of HeadStrong \nLisa Jones is a multi-award-winning\, science driven\, fact-based therapist\, coach and passionate trainer who believes that prevention is better than intervention. \nLisa works in both the corporate and education sector teaching others the importance of brain health\, resilience\, stress management and emotional wellbeing as well as running a busy private practice. \nLisa is a fully qualified and insured Psychotherapist\, Counsellor\, Health Coach and Mental Health Consultant registered with The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She is also a senior accredited member of The National Counselling Society and The Association for Coaching. \nAfter graduating with a BSc (Hons) in Counselling & Psychotherapy\, Lisa went on to work with adults to overcome addiction and mental health issues. Having experienced chronic ill health for many years\, Lisa developed a keen interest in brain health and the brain / mind/ body connection. Lisa was fascinated by how our minds can influence our wellbeing and vice versa. After overcoming her own health issues\, she then specialised in the field of chronic ill health and stress. Lisa went on to certify in Applied Neuroscience and Brain Health\, Applied Neuroscience and Coaching and Women’s Health and Neurobiology. \nShe also gained a NLP Practitioner Coaching Diploma and certified as a Life Coaching Practitioner\, Youth Coach\, NLP Master Practitioner\, Hypnotherapy Practitioner\, Mental Health First Aid and completed a BPS approved certificate in clinical supervision. The specific focus of her work addresses the mind-body connection and the impact our language (self-talk) and belief system has on all aspects of health and wellbeing as well as self-esteem and confidence. The principles of Neuroscience underpin the work Lisa does as she believes it is essential to educate people on how the brain works\, how to influence mindset and to understand neuroplasticity (the ability of the brain to form and re-organise neural connections). By doing so\, this enables us to build resilience\, develop essential life skills and learn how to manage stress effectively. \nTogether with her business partner\, Veronika Chidemo – a Teacher and School Mental Health Leadership Consultant\, she co-founded HeadStrong Training in Education. Lisa and Veronika are passionate about an integrative approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education and believe that everyone should be equipped with essential skills to confidently manage the stresses in life. \n\nDave Parvin\, Former Drug Squad Officer \nA former Drug Squad Officer- Dave has seen the damage and destruction first hand that  ‘drugs’ can bring to those who choose to have a life that involves the use of these substances and as such is passionate about raising the awareness of the ‘potential risks and dangers’ associated with this life style. Since leaving the police Dave over the last 17 years has delivered hundreds of Drug Awareness Sessions to Schools and Colleges all over the country engaging with all parties (Students/Staff and Parental Sessions) to ensure his key message about raising the awareness of the real risks and dangers associated with many substances young people in particular are likely to come into contact with. He does not preach and delivers his presentations in a ‘non judgemental manner’ in his own ‘unique style’\, ensuring that his audiences engage with him from the very minute he starts to speak. He also has strong links with NAMSS (National Association for Managers of Student Services)\, the BSA (Boarding School Association) and Hieda (Health in Education) delivering bespoke Drug Awareness Training events for their staff (including work overseas with international schools). \n\nAlice Beard\, Health Centre Manager\, Sherborne Girls \nAlice has been a qualified nurse for coming up to 20 years\, initially specialising in orthopaedics in the local acute trust\, then working as a clinical site manager. As her own family grew\, she moved into practice nursing\, enjoying the 1-2-1 patient care and finding her passion of health promotion. \nShe started working for Sherborne Girls 8 years ago as a member of the nursing team and took over as the nurse manager 2 years ago. She loves school nursing and the age range of the pupils in her care; she has seen many changes in the needs of her pupils and every day presents a different scenario or challenge. \nHer and her team have a passion to ensure\, the pupils leave SG\, with the confidence and knowledge on how best to look after their health and wellbeing. \n\nNatalie Bosmans\, School Nurse \nNatalie is originally from the UK where she trained as a nurse\, midwife and health visitor.  She worked as a Specialist nurse for Looked after children before making the move to working as a school nurse in the international school setting in Switzerland over 18 years ago.  She is passionate about child and adolescent health and well-being\, and have a particular interest in health promotion and prevention\, this led to her undertaking her Masters degree in Public Health in 2020.   She is the professional development coordinator for the School nurse Collaborative Learning Group for the Swiss Group of International Schools\,  a role that  enables her to connect with other school nurses in the international school setting\, giving them the opportunity to work together and learn together\, promoting best practice within our schools for our students and their families.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/hieda-bsa-health-and-wellbeing-conference-2/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:SBF summer conference
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nDate: June 14\, 2024\nTime: 10:00 – 16:00\nCost: BSA Full Member – £100\,  Non-member – £200\nAudience: Head\, Deputy Head\, Head of Boarding\, Pastoral staff\, all at state boarding schools\nPlatform: Zoom\n\n\nThe annual SBF summer conference is an opportunity for practitioners working in state boarding to come together and receive an update on the current position of the state boarding sector\, specifically addressing the issues raised by SBF members at their regular forum\, and to hear from government departments including DfE\, Ofsted\, MOD and FCO. \nBOOK NOW \n\nProgramme: \n10:00 – 10:10 \nSession 1 – Welcome and introduction \n\nSpeaker: Dr Chris Pyle\, Chair\, SBF Executive Committee and Headmaster at Lancaster Royal Grammar School\n\n10:10 – 11:00 \nThe Boarding Landscape  \nBSA Group update & State of the boarding sector  \n\nSpeaker: David Walker\, Director\, BSA\n\nNMS update  \n\nSpeaker: Dale Wilkins\, Senior Director\, BSA Group\n\nQ&A  \n\nChair: Dr Chris Pyle\, Chair\, SBF Executive Committee and Headmaster\, Lancaster Royal Grammar School\n\n11:00 – 11:15 \nBreak \n11:15 – 12:00 \nSession 2 – International recruitment \n\nChair: David Walker\, Director\, BSA\n\nSpeaker: Mark Brooks\, MBA\, Director\, Brooks Education\n\n\n\n12:00 – 12:15 \nBreak \n12:15 – 13:00 \nSession 3 – Compliance Update \nIICSA/Ofsted update  \n\nSpeaker: Dale Wilkins\, Senior Director\, BSA Group\n\nQ&A  \n\nChair: Dale Wilkins\, Senior Director\, BSA Group\n\n13:00 – 14:00 \nLunch \n14:00 – 14:45 \nSession 4 – Panelist Discussion \nStaff well-being\, recruitment and retention – How can we help our boarding schools \n\nChair: David Walker\, Director\, BSA\n\nSpeaker: Matt Albrighton\, Headmaster\, Burford School\nSteve Gardner\, Deputy Head\, Holyport\nHelen Cullen\, Head\, Sexeys\nJonathan Webb\, Head\, Ripon Grammar\n\n\n\n14:45 – 15:00 \nBreak \n15:00 – 15:45 \nSession 5 – Supporting vulnerable children \n\nChair: David Walker\, Director\, BSA\n\nSpeaker: Mark Heywood\, Principal\, Royal Wolverhampton\nRailton Blyth\, Director of Safeguarding at The Circle Trust\n\n\n\n16:00 \nClose and thanks \n\nSpeaker: Dr Chris Pyle\, Chair\, SBF Executive Committee and Headmaster at Lancaster Royal Grammar School\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeakers: \nDr Chris Pyle\, Chair\, SBF Executive Committee and Headmaster at Lancaster Royal Grammar School \nChris Pyle is Chair of the State Boarding Forum. He has been Head of Lancaster Royal Grammar School since 2012. The school has grown significantly over that period and has welcomed Sixth Form girls as boarders and day students. It has been judged Outstanding in all categories in three successive Ofsted boarding inspections. \nChris was previously Deputy Head of the Perse School\, Cambridge. Before becoming a teacher he completed a PhD in Geography at Cambridge University and also worked in the water industry. \nHe holds the NPQH\, is currently studying for the NPQEL in school leadership\, and is Executive Lead of the NNW Maths Hub. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society\, and regularly writes resources for schools on natural hazards and environmental change. \n\nDavid Walker\, Director\, BSA \nDavid is the BSA Director 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. \n  \n\n \nDale Wilkins\, Senior Director\, BSA Group \nDale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards\, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme\, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA\, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter and has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI\, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards\, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit\, which he first produced in 2002\, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding. \nFor 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College\, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992\, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007\, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board. \n\nMark Brooks\, MBA\, Director\, Brooks Education \nMark began his career as a marketing executive with the Financial Times in London and moved on to become the marketing manager for a theological college\, and then for a leading boarding school in Oxfordshire. At both establishments Mark revolutionised the student recruitment processes and saw pupil numbers reach record levels. During this time\, he also completed an MBA\, focusing on schools marketing. His specialisms are marketing strategy\, school turnaround and boarding recruitment. He has advised heads and governors at major IAPS\, HMC and GSA schools in the UK and overseas. Mark has worked with the British Council\, and leading schools such as Roedean\, Junior King’s Canterbury\, Wycliffe College\, Dulwich College and over 100 others. He is a regular conference speaker (IPSEF\, AGBIS\, British Council\, AMDIS\, BBSW\, and APEN). His Masters in Business Administration (MBA) focused on school strategy and marketing\, his final year was sponsored by the Independent Schools Council (ISC). Mark visits at least two independent schools a week and runs marketing initiatives overseas. \n\nMatt Albrighton\, Headmaster\, Burford School  \nBefore working in boarding Matthew worked in the Boys day Sector at KES Edgbaston and Warwick school. Alongside his role as Head of Geography at Wellington College\, Matthew coordinated the introduction of the IB Middle Years Programme for students in years 9-11. Carrying principles from the IB forward to St Edward’s he developed an alternative series of qualifications to sit within a middle school suite alongside GCSE.  This involved working with the support of Buckingham University to create a rigorous moderation and authentication process. \nMatthew has an almost fervent belief in the value of a broad curriculum in supporting the development of a young person. He is an advocate of the maintenance of sport and the Arts alongside more stereotypical classroom learning all the way through to 18. With this in mind he advocates curriculums such as the IB diploma and perhaps a little overzealous about the Theory of Knowledge course. \nMatthew has held a post on senior leadership for 12 years\, 9 years at St Edwards as Deputy Head Academic and then latterly as Headteacher at Burford School\, an academy of 1500 students in the Cotswolds with Boarding House attached. Throughout Matthew has had oversight of the appraisal process and recognises the importance of defining an overarching educational philosophy to provide guard rails for staff motivation. \n\nSteve Gardner\, Deputy Head\, Holyport \nSteve is the Deputy Head Master at Holyport College\, where he leads on behaviour and boarding. He has worked in boarding schools for 18 years as a teacher of Drama and Theatre Studies\, alongside boarding roles that include House Tutor\, Housemaster and Director of Boarding. Steve led Holyport through a significant pastoral restructure in 2021 that not only gained an upgrade of Ofsted’s judgements but also instigated an increased commitment to staff wellbeing. \n  \n\nHelen Cullen\, Head\, Sexeys \nHelen is Headteacher of Sexey’s School\, an 11-18 years Church of England SBS. Having previously been a Pastoral middle and senior leader well being of staff and students is something Helen is passionate about and during the schools improvement journey has been a key priority. Helen considers herself very fortunate to have the team of staff at Sexey’s that she does and so is always committed to considering and exploring further strategies to support staff well being and in turn recruitment and retention. \n  \n\nMark Heywood\, Principal\, Royal Wolverhampton  \nCurrently Principal/CEO of The Royal School\, Wolverhampton an all-through\, co-ed\, non-selective day and state boarding school of some 1500 pupils in the West Midlands.  Has been in post since 2011\, converting from independent school to State Free School/Academy in 2016.  Over past 40 years he has worked in state and independent schools\, boarding and day settings in London\, Cumbria\, Tyneside and now West Midlands. \nThe Royal School has developed experience in working with Looked After Children (LAC) and UASC for a number of years\, the work of which featured in the Independent Review into Children’s Social Care report of 2022 and works closely with the RNSCF Springboard Trust on their Expert Advisory Group to the Government on the potential benefits of boarding in working with vulnerable children. \nMark has taught geography\, geology\, PE and Games and has a passion for outdoor education and international expeditions. \n\nJonathan Webb\, Head\, Ripon Grammar \nJonathan has been head at Ripon Grammar for nearly 7 years. He was previously Deputy Head at Durham school\, having been a Head of Department at Pocklington School. Jonathan began his career at Giggleswick and Manchester Grammar School. \n  \n  \n\nRailton Blyth\, Director of Safeguarding at The Circle Trust \nMember of the Education & Welfare Committee. Lead Governor for: Safeguarding \nRailton is the Director of Safeguarding for The Circle Trust as well as Senior Deputy Headteacher at St Crispin’s School. He was previously a PiXL (Partners in Excellence) associate\, managed and chaired the local Designated Safeguarding leads network and Secondary Behaviour Leads group as well as chairing the Wokingham Primary/Secondary liaison group. He is currently a Trustee for a local charity that seeks to support young people in navigating their teenage years. \nA Historian by training\, Railton’s passion lays in Inclusion and Outdoor Education. He is a qualified Forest School leader and he has created bespoke courses to ensure our young people are able to connect with nature and embrace risk away from screens. In 2017\, Railton’s work was recognised for his contribution to working with children with Special Educational Needs by being named as Building for the Future’s Teacher of the Year 2017. \nOutside of school\, Railton’s life is dedicated to his wife and two children (as well as Sooty the dog) as he seeks adventure to create special memories for them. Being a boy from Kent originally\, Railton is at one with the sea and as a family\, they have a deep love of North Cornwall and the RNLI.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/sbf-summer-conference-2/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:HIEDA - Clinical skills training (with Meliora Medical Group)
DESCRIPTION:Date: June 11 – 12\, 2024\nTime: 08:30 – 16:30\nCost: Member Rate: £450\, Delegates from Meliora Schools: £450\, Non-member Rate: £900\nAudience: Registered nurses  / paramedics only (32 places maximum)\nVenue: Harrow School\n\n\nCourse outline: \nThis clinical skills package of two skills days\, culminating in an OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) style assessment\, provides updates on medical conditions and refreshes practical skills. The aim is to support clinical staff with their training and development needs\, help them to raise the standards of care provided in schools and meet the needs of CPD as part of their revalidation. This will also be accomplished by networking with other nurses to share and recognise good practice. \nDay 1 Training topics will include: \n\nHistory taking\nRespiratory assessment\nCardio assessment\nAbdominal assessment\nHead injury assessment\nENT assessment including use of otoscope\, eye testing and inhaler techniques\n\nDay 2 Training topics will include a carousel of  \n\nSexual Health assessment\nMental Health Assessment\nMSK assessment\nRevision session in preparation for the OSCE\n\nThe clinical day will involve a number of trainers teaching delegates in small groups\, in rotation\, on topics that are systems based \nWe will practise clinical skills such as History taking\, ENT assessment\, chest sounds\, heart sounds\, ABDO assessment\,  inhaler techniques and vision testing. \nThere will be a booklet to complete and every person will be observed and signed off for each skill. \nThe aim is to refresh or learn new skills and enhance basic physical assessments. \nLearning outcomes: \n\nTo be updated on the common medical issued found in schools\nTo expand knowledge on assessment and history taking\nTo explore opportunities to support unwell pupils\nTo network with other school nurses\nTo share knowledge and information and recognise areas of good practice.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nProgramme: \nDay 1 \n08:00: Arrival and Registration \n08:30 – 09:00: Introductions and plan for course \n09:00 – 11:00: Session 1 – History Taking \n11:00 – 11:30: Break \n11:30 – 13:30: Session 2 – Carousell Sessions \n\nSession 1 – Sexual Health\nSession 2- MSK Assessment\nSession 3 – Mental Health Assessment\nSession 4 – ENT / Vision\n\n13:30 – 14:00: Lunch \n14:00 – 16:00: Carousell sessions continue \n16:00 – 16:15: Break \n16:15 – 17:00: Session 4 – Head Injury Assessment \n17:00 – 17:30: Session 5 – Questions  \nDay 2 \n08:30 – Registration and Coffee \n09:00 – 10:30: Session 1 – Respiratory and Cardio assessment  \n10:30 – 11:00: Break \n11:00 – 12:30 – Session 2 – Abdominal assessment and Urinalysis  \n12:30 – 13:00 – Lunch \n13:00 – 16:30 – Assessments & Feedback \n16:30 – End \n\nSpeaker: \nRosie McManus RSCN\, Dip HR (Child)\, BSc (Hons)\, MSc (Law)\, HIEDA Nurse Advisor \nTrained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children Rosie came to school nursing in the independent sector 16 years ago. With a passion for boarding pastoral and health care Rosie has developed an interest in the understanding and development of the health needs of boarding school students. \n  \n  \n\nDr Alex Maxwell\, Doctor\, Harrow School Head\, Meliora Medical Group\, MBBS\, MRCGP\, Dip IBLM/BSLM\, MNU (Dist)\, FBSLM \nAlex leads our School Medicine department. Through reflective quality improvement he ensures our School Doctor service provision is gold-standard and ever improving. Alex supports and guides our clinical team and is responsible for upholding the high clinical standards we strive for at Meliora Medical Group. \nAlex is also responsible for looking after and supporting the health and wellbeing of our team. We all understand the importance of self-care and know this contributes to our ability to deliver our service to the best of our ability. \n 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/hieda-clinical-skills-trainingwith-meliora-medical-group/
LOCATION:Harrow School
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:BSA/TIOB - Annual Boarding Conference
DESCRIPTION:Date: June 04-05\, 2024\nTime: 09:00 – 17:00\nCost: BSA/TIOB Member delegate rate – £550\, BSA Affiliate member delegate rate – £825\, Non Member delegate rate – £1100\nCost will include: two-day conference\, conference refreshments and formal dinner on the evening of June 04.\nAudience: Deputy Head\, Head of Boarding\, SLT/SMT\, Boarding House staff\, Pastoral staff\nVenue: Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5\nAccommodation: Please note accommodation is not included in the delegate rate. Delegates are able to book accommodation for the two-day conference using the online booking platform\, Roomex. Click here to login and secure your room using your school email address domain. A helpful BSA conference user guide is also available to watch here. If you would prefer to stay in the same hotel where the conference will be taking place\, please select ‘Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5’ when booking via the platform. Roomex searches 35 global sources to provide the best hotel solution in one place and can save you up to 25%.\nExhibiting and sponsorship: We are delighted to be able to welcome organisations sponsorship and exhibition opportunities at this event\, for full details please reach out to Neil Rust\, Head of Commercial neil.rust@bsagroup.org.uk or Laura Brain\, Senior Commercial Consultant\, +44 (0)207 798 1580\, laura.brain@bsagroup.org.uk\n\n\nWe’re looking forward to welcoming Deputy Heads\, Heads of Boarding and Boarding House staff from our member schools to our Annual Boarding Conference\, which takes place on June 4-5\, 2024. \nWe will be joined by an exciting line-up of guest speakers across the two days and the conference will also allow plenty of time for interaction with colleagues\, including a wonderful evening dinner together. Our aim is to ensure that you leave feeling refreshed and inspired\, armed with practical ideas to implement in your school. \nIn addition to great speakers\, we will be running a series of conversations led by delegates on a range of issues to ensure that sharing experience and knowledge is central at this year’s conference. \nIf you would be interested in leading a conversation like this or would like to suggest a specific topic for discussion\, please do let us know via bsa@boarding.org.uk. Sessions could include everything from the challenges of staffing\, getting all teachers to engage in the boarding house\, to making time for yourself during busy terms. This is YOUR conference\, so please do get in touch. \nBOOK NOW \nCLICK HERE TO VIEW CONFERENCE PROGRAMME \n\nConference Chair: \nChris Wheeler\, Chair\, BSA/TIOB Boarding Conference 2024 and Principal\, Monkton Combe School \nChris is our conference chair has been Principal of Monkton Combe School since 2016. He is a governor at Stowe\, where he chairs the Education committee\, and has previously served as Vice Chair of HMC for 2019-20\, trustee for the Palladian Academy Trust and Education Advisor to Challenge Partners. He previously served as Principal and CEO at Hillcrest International Schools in Kenya\, Headmaster at St Christopher’s\, Hove\, and has variously been Deputy Head\, Housemaster (day and boarding) and Head of English. \n  \n\nGuest Speakers: \nLee Mears\, Partner\, Executive Coach\, The Preston Associates \nWith two Rugby World Cups\, 43 international rugby caps for England and a British and Irish Lions tour under his belt\, Lee has been involved in building and developing high-performing\, self motivated teams at the highest possible level. He currently coaches senior executives\, teams and Boards across a wide range of sectors from finance\, investment banking and commodity trading to tech\, retail and manufacturing.\nLee’s passion for coaching is rooted firmly in the belief that you can lead others only by understanding yourself and working to enhance and enrich your own performance first. “You’ve got to learn to walk the talk before you can inspire others through your actions. That’s a big part of getting leadership right.”\nFrom his sporting and business journeys\, Lee recognises the strong correlation between the two worlds. He believes that success depends on bringing people together to strive for a common goal\, enabling them to move forward in the same direction. Empowerment and ‘buy in’ are the pre requisites needed to create the culture of success in either environment. Lee strongly believes that discipline is an important aspect of management. Through coaching he provides that elusive space and time that senior business leaders need to develop a growth mindset that will enable them to establish the solid foundations for long-term prosperity. Lee continues to develop his role within the rugby community\, sitting on the Bath Rugby Foundation Board and being an active Patron of various rugby charities and a cardiac research charity. \n\nDr Lindsay Browning\, CEO\, Trouble Sleeping \nDr Lindsay Browning is a leading sleep expert\, psychologist\, neuroscientist and author. She founded Trouble Sleeping troublesleeping.co.uk in 2006 to help companies and individuals with better sleep. Dr Browning’s qualifications include two degrees in neuroscience and psychology and also a doctorate from the University of Oxford where she specifically studied the treatment of insomnia. Dr Browning has written the bestselling self-help sleep book\, Navigating Sleeplessness\, and can be found on all social media @DrBrowningSleep. \n  \n\nAlicia Drummond\,  Founder\, Wellbeing Hub and Teen Tips \nAlicia is passionate about providing evidenced-based advice to parents\, teachers and all those looking after children and young people\, so they can be pro-active in supporting the mental health and wellbeing of those in their care.  Alicia also works directly with children and young people empowering them to look after their mental health and wellbeing. \nAlicia draws on the latest research from psychotherapy\, psychology and neuroscience\, along with her experience of working as an adolescent therapist. \nAlicia is a BACP accredited therapist\, parenting expert\, sought after keynote speaker\, member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for a Fit and Healthy Childhood\, author and a mother.  She is regularly sought for her expert opinion by the media. \nHaving worked with schools across the UK for more than a decade delivering webinars\, talks and workshops to parents\, carers\, staff\, and pupils; in 2020 Alicia created The Wellbeing Hub. This award-winning platform offers a proactive approach to young people’s mental health and wellbeing by providing evidenced-based support for the whole school community – staff\, parents\, carers and pupils.  The platform is currently impacting more than 130\,000 pupils in over 220 schools. \n\nWill Gardner\, CEO\, Childnet \nWill Gardner is the CEO of Childnet International\, a children’s charity working with others to help make the internet a great and safe place for children. \nWill has worked at Childnet since 2000 and has been the CEO since 2009 and has led numerous regional\, national and international projects and programmes promoting child online safety\, developing many award-winning resources. \nHe is also a Director of the UK Safer Internet Centre\, in which Childnet\, working with partners the IWF and SWGfL\, organises Safer Internet Day in the UK every year\, a campaign that reaches 50% of children and over a third of parents and carers. He is also an Executive Board member of the UK Council for Internet Safety and founded and chairs the Early Warning Working Group of helplines\, hotlines and law enforcement. He is a member of Meta’s Safety Advisory Council\, Internet Matters’ Expert Group and the Advisory Board of the Anti-bullying Alliance \n\nEd Venables\, Head\, Eagle House School \nAfter studying Classics at Oxford university and a 12-year career in the investment banking and private equity world in the City\, Ed returned to his old school\, Wellington College\, to teach Economics and Business.  His time at Wellington saw him being Head of the Economics department\, Housemaster of his former boarding house for six years and\, finally\, Director of Admissions and a member of the Executive Leadership Team.  In September 2023 Ed moved to become Head of Eagle House School\, Wellington’s 3-13 prep school.  Ed remains on the Wellington ELT. \nEd is married and has three sons.  Away from school\, he lives in Anglesey\, North Wales\, and loves getting there in the holidays for lots of walking\, running and time in and on the sea! \n\nJane Lunnon\, Head\, Alleyn’s School \nJane Lunnon became the first female Head of Alleyn’s School in January 2021 after six years as Head of Wimbledon High School and as Senior Deputy at Wellington School from 2010-2014 under Anthony Seldon’s headship. Her experience in senior leadership in both single-sex and co-educational environments\, including her time at Prior’s Field School\, spans a variety of roles: Head of English\, Assistant Director of Studies\, Head of Sixth Form\, Deputy Pastoral and Housemaster’s wife. \nJane is a trustee of the Royal Springboard Foundation\, chair and founder of the Coalition for Youth Mental Health in Schools\, a Trustee of the Dulwich Picture Gallery\, and sits on the Board of Governors for the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham\, Barrow Hills School and King Edward’s School\, Witley and as well as on the GSA / HMC Joint Universities Committee. \nHer first book\, “The State of Independence”\, co-written with Dr David James\, was first published by Routledge in 2019 and examines the challenges and opportunities for independent education. A second edition was published in February 2023.  She is now working on her second book: “Schools of Thought” due to be published in February 2024.  Jane was named Tatler Head of the Year in 2020. \nShe is married to Neill Lunnon who is also a Head (of Tower House School) and has two children. Her identical twin sister\, Jenny Brown\, is also Head of an independent London day school – which makes for many interesting conversations over dinner! \n\nTyler John\, Head of Diversity\, Equality and Inclusion\, St Paul’s School \nTyler John (he/they) is the Head of Diversity\, Equality and Inclusion at St Paul’s School in Barnes. Tyler started their career as an intern\, and has delivered strategic DEI work across a number of different sectors. They really value the role that education plays in facilitating diverse and inclusive spaces\, and enjoys working with open-minded and forward-thinking students in their role. \n  \n\nSarah Griffiths\, Deputy Head (Pastoral and Wellbeing)\, Caterham School \nNamed as an innovator and influencer in UK independent education\, Sarah has been developing and promoting wellbeing in education for over a decade. A big supporter of ‘the whole school approach’\, her work at Caterham School centres around proactive pastoral care\, underpinned by a strong wellbeing curriculum and complimented by a focus on staff wellbeing and engaging parents. Her current school has 1300 pupils aged from 3-18\, with a proportion of international boarders and she is also a governor at a local primary school.\nSarah is a Maths graduate who taught at Dulwich College for 11 years\, as well as being Head of Wellbeing\, before joining Caterham School in 2017 as Deputy Head (Pastoral and Wellbeing). She is a Maths teacher and a mum of three. \n\nBen Collingwood\, Partner\, Schools & Charities\, Moore Barlow \nBen specialises in advising independent schools and other charities on wide ranging areas of education law\, with particular focus on reputation issues\, pastoral\, safeguarding\, historic abuse allegations\, SEN\, exclusions\, parent/pupil complaints\, data protection\, parent contracts\, admissions and staff matters of all types. \nBen has written and spoken widely on issues facing the independent schools sector\, providing comment in The Times\, The Guardian\, The Lawyer and Law Society’s Gazette and at the national conferences and training programmes for the various associations that support independent schools including BSA\, ISBA\, HMC\, IAPS and AGBIS. \nBen lives with his wife and three children in West Sussex. He has been a devoted surfer since my childhood and loves to spend as much of his free time as possible in the sea and walking his pointers with his family. \n\n \nAdam McRae-Taylor\, Legal Director\, Schools & Charities\, Moore Barlow \nI specialise in employment and education law and advise on issues such as unfair dismissal\, discrimination cases\, safeguarding\, parent contracts and data protection issues including in relation to the GDPR. \nMy approach is to work with schools and charities to ensure that they are managing their staff fairly and lawfully\, as a happy workforce. This not only helps an organisation thrive and grow\, but also prevents managers from being distracted by disputes. Where contentious issues do arise\, I am experienced in employment tribunal litigation and I regularly advise on employment claims such as unfair dismissal\, whistleblowing and discrimination. \nI trained and qualified in employment law with a Magic Circle firm in London. Before joining the Schools & Charities Team at Moore Barlow LLP (formerly Barlow Robbins LLP)\, I spent two years working in-house for a charity which gave me an invaluable perspective on how to provide practical advice on the issues charities commonly face. \n\nJoanna Lada-Walicki\, Head of Schools & Charities\, Moore Barlow \nJoanna heads the Moore Barlow’s independent schools and charities practice. She specialises in education and employment law. She advises on a range of employment and pastoral issues\, in particular when the reputation of a school is at stake. \nAn area of particular interest for Joanna is safeguarding and she has spoken widely on this subject national conferences and has also written widely on this and other issues affecting schools and charities. \nA major part of our practice is in relation to the management of allegations against staff as well as child-on-child abuse\, including guidance on making appropriate referrals. This inevitably overlaps with the question of sex and gender and Joanna has particular interest in how schools support and safeguard trans-gender people. \n\n \nRhiannon Williams\, Senior Director (Safeguarding\, Legal and Complaints)\, Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) \nRhiannon was formerly Director of Studies at a large day and boarding prep school for children aged 3-13. \nRhiannon has worked in the education sector for over a decade\, prior to which she was an environmental lawyer. This included working in regulatory compliance at the European Commission\, and as a university lecturer and researcher. \nRhiannon is a former solicitor\, whose qualifications include PGCE (Cantab)\, MA Law (Cantab) and Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen (ULB). \n\n \nAlex Large\, Head of Boarding\, The Royal School\, Wolverhampton \nDespite trying his best not to follow in his father’s footsteps\, Alex opted to study economics at Newcastle University but still ended up becoming a maths teacher. As a day pupil at Taunton School\, he spent many evenings in the company of the boarders there while his father did evening duties or stayed to finish his marking. This is where the fascination with boarding began and is now a self-confessed boarding enthusiast. Currently the Head of Boarding and a member of the Senior Leadership Team at The Royal School\, Wolverhampton\, Alex has developed excellent links with charities and external government agencies to support the pastoral needs of boarders at school\, culminating in national recognition with both individual and school awards. \nAlex lives onsite with his wife\, Sarah\, and their two young sons – Harry and Thomas who want to become the next Ben Stokes and Rory McIlroy respectively. During the winter he plays 1st XI hockey for Finchfield\, whilst in the summer holidays he can be found on his paddleboard in Barmouth Bay. \n\n \nMadeleine Killacky\, Housemistress and Mathematics Teacher\, Moreton Hall School \nMadeleine Killacky is a Housemistress and Mathematics teacher at Moreton Hall School in Shropshire. She was awarded the BSA Research Fellowship for 2023-24 and is currently researching creativity and unstructured play in boarding settings. \n  \n  \n\nNaima Charlier\, Director of Equality\, Diversity\, Inclusion\, and Social Responsibility\, Wellington College \nNaima Charlier brings over 25 years of teaching experience\, including more than 20 years in international school settings across the UK\, USA\, Romania\, and Hong Kong. With a background spanning Early Years\, Primary\, and Secondary education\, she has held various leadership roles for over 16 years\, including Founding Head\, Deputy Principal\, and Director of Teaching and Learning. Naima holds an MBA in International Educational Leadership from UCL and serves as a Lead Improvement Partner for COBIS. She advocates passionately for inclusive leadership and prioritises EDI initiatives in schools. \n  \n\nMartin Reader\, Headmaster\, Cranleigh School \nMartin Reader is currently Head of Cranleigh School. He began his teaching career at St Edward’s Oxford\, before moving to Oundle School and then to Reigate Grammar School where he was Senior Deputy Head. Prior to moving to Cranleigh\, he was Headmaster of Wellington School\, Somerset for eight years. Passionate about boarding\, he served as Chair of the BSA in 2018\, and Vice Chair in 2017 and 2019. He is also a trustee of the BSA Foundation and the Hawk and Owl Trust. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Institute of Boarding. \n\nAreti Bizior\, Headmistress\, Luckley House School \nAreti is the Headmistress at Luckley House School. Prior to that\, she was Deputy Headmistress at Downe House for seven years\, Assistant Headmistress at Queen Anne’s School in Caversham and Head of House at St. George’s\, Ascot. Areti holds an MBA from UCL\, alongside a BSc\, BEd and PGCE. She is an Inspector for ISI and a published author. Areti is a member of the Executive Committee of the BSA and sits on various Advisory Boards and Governing Bodies. \n  \n\nSpeakers from the BSA Team: \nDavid Walker\, Executive Director\, Boarding\, BSA Group \nDavid is the Executive Director 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. \n  \n\nGaelle Sullivan\, Research and Inclusion Director\, BSA Group \nGaelle is Head of Research Services and Inclusion and joined the BSA in January 2023. She is an experienced senior leader and has worked in a range of state and independent schools. She is a qualified SENCO and holds a Masters Degree in Inclusive Education. Prior to joining the BSA\, Gaelle was Deputy Head Pastoral\, DSL and Head of Boarding at an all-girls independent school in the South-East. \n  \n\nLee Glaser\, Director\, Hieda and Group Services Director\, BSA Group \nLee has extensive experience in pastoral care. Prior to becoming Headmaster and CEO at Taunton School in Somerset he was the School’s Deputy Head which involved leading the pastoral team and being the Designated Safeguarding Lead. Outstanding support for student and staff wellbeing has always been at the heart of his approach and the School was recently shortlisted for a TES Award for excellence in this area. \nLee has always worked closely with the School’s medical team which provided excellent support to the community\, particularly during the COVID pandemic. He is excited to be supporting HIEDA members in delivering the highest quality of care in their own environments.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/annual-boarding-conference/
LOCATION:Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:BAISIS/BSA - Visa and immigration summer term conference
DESCRIPTION:Date: May 21\, 2024\nTime: 09:30 – 16:15\nCost: BAISIS/BSA Full Member – £215\, BAISIS/BSA Additional Member Fee – £110\, BSA Affiliate Member – £325\, BSA Additional Affiliate Member Fee – £140\,  Non-member – £430\nAudience: Admissions\, Marketing\, Deputy Head\, Head of Boarding\, Head\, Bursar\, Educational Guardians\, Agents. \nPlatform: Zoom (online) – conference\n\n\nCourse outline \nThis conference will enable delegates to hear directly from the experts on the latest in visas and immigration relevant to the education sector. The summer update will address key issues from members at a crucial time of year for international student recruitment. \nBSA will facilitate questions directly from members to our experts throughout the day\, including Home Office representatives. Delegates are welcome to send their questions in advance to bsa@boarding.org.uk to ensure these are answered during the session. \nSponsored by IGTM \n \nTraining topics will include: \n\nKey sector issues relating to visas and immigration\nMaintaining sponsor licence compliance\nInternational student recruitment risk assessments and due diligence considerations\nSponsor duties\, including Monitoring\, Reporting and Record-keeping Managing the SMS\, CAS allocations and your BCA\nUKVI inspections and educational oversight\nRelationships with educational agents\n\nDOWNLOAD PROGRAMME HERE \n\n\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nProgramme: \n09:30 – 09:45 \nSession 1 – Welcome and update: immigration state of the nation \nA review of where we are now as a sector and what’s to come.   \n\nSpeaker: Kate Hollyer\, Director of Legal and Public Affairs\, BSA Group \n\n09:45 – 10:15 \nSession 2 – Preparing for induction\, best practice for welcoming your international students  \nThis session will hear from current sponsors on their integration and induction processes from a sponsorship perspective and focusing on their new international students.  \n\n Chair: Beth Waddington\, Director\, BAISIS \n\nSpeaker: Johanna Prior\, Joint Principal\, The International College\, King’s School\, Canterbury \nJoanna Jackson\, International Registrar\, Sherborne School\nLaura Brayley\, Assistant Head TSI (Pastoral & Co-Curricular)\n\n\n\n10:15 – 10:30 \nBreak \n10:30 – 11:15 \nSession 3 – Promoting positive and transparent relationships with educational agents  \nThis session will bring together voices from boarding schools with international students and BSA certified educational agents to discuss how to promote positive relationships between the two\, focusing on the sponsor duties and wellbeing and care of the child. \n\nChair: Caroline Nixon\, International Director\, BSA Group\n\nSpeaker: Gemma Kilby\, Head of Admissions\, Felsted School\nLauren Moore\, International Compliance Officer\, Felsted School \nTheresa Glasmacher\, Managing Director\, Barbara Glasmacher\, Internationale Schulberatung \n\n\n\n11:15 – 11:30 \nBreak \n11:30 – 12:30 \nSession 4 – Exploitation risks and due diligence \nThis session will be focused on helping schools to be aware of and safeguard their international students whilst best protecting themselves and their international students against exploitation.  \n\nChair: Kate Hollyer\, Director of Legal and Public Affairs\, BSA Group \n\nSpeakers: Mark Taylor\, Consultant\, Verisio\nAndrew Steven\, Director at I-GTM\n\n\n\n12:30 – 13:30 \nLunch \n13:30 – 14:30 \nSession 5 – Home Office: Policy and Operations update \nHear from representatives of the Home Office Study Operations and Student Policy departments about the Child Student / Student visa routes and future developments\, plus pose your questions to the team – an unmissable session!  \n\nChair: Kate Hollyer\, Director of Legal and Public Affairs\, BSA Group\n\nSpeaker: Martyn Foulds\, Team Leader\, Study Operations\, Home Office \n\n\n\n14:30 – 14:45 \nBreak \n14:45 – 15:45 \nSession 6 – Legal update: UKVI compliance and Educational Oversight  \nAn overview of compliance trends and areas of focus from leading immigration expert and Chair of Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA)   \n\nChair: Beth Waddington\, Director\, BAISIS\n\nSpeaker: Hazar El–Chamaa\, Immigration Partner\, Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP and Chair\, ILPA\n\n\n\n15:45 – 16:15 \nSession 7 – In conversation with immigration experts.  \nPut your questions to the legal panel and hear a round-up of the day.  \n\nChair: Beth Waddington\, Director\, BAISIS\n\nSpeaker: Kate Hollyer\, Director of Legal and Public Affairs\, BSA Group  \nHazar El-Chamaa\, Immigration Partner\, Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP and Chair\, ILPA\n\n\n\n16:15 \nClose of conference \n\nKate Hollyer\, Director of Legal and Public Affairs\, BSA Group  \nKate is Legal and Public Affairs Director of BSA Group and Director of BSA Group Legal Services Ltd\, BSA Group’s SRA-regulated law firm. As a qualified solicitor of England and Wales with more than 12 years’ experience advising clients on UK immigration and nationality law\, Kate supports members with all UK immigration matters including UKVI sponsor licence compliance. Kate is a member of the Home Office Education Advisory Group and is the boarding sector representative for this group. Prior to joining BSA in 2022 Kate was Partner and Head of Department at a leading full-service UK law firm. Having resided in state\, preparatory and senior school boarding houses since 2014 with her Housemaster husband\, Kate has a unique perspective of boarding life. \n\n \nBeth Waddington\, Director\, BAISIS  \nBethan Waddington joined the BSA team as Training Manager in September 2017. Bethan has worked in two independent boarding schools in the UK and Switzerland\, the latter as Housemistress to 36 pupils. Following her time in Switzerland\, she was a Pastoral Manager for an inner-city state academy before working in the charity sector for Debrett’s running the ‘Debrett’s Foundation’ training programme. \nIn her role\, Bethan plans and manages all Day Seminars\, Conferences\, INSET and Consultancy\, as well as being Director of BAISIS. She believes boarding can be a positive force for young people and in order to fully support their needs staff can never learn too much. As such she is passionate about the CPD BSA delivers to our pastoral communities in the UK and worldwide. \n\n \nCaroline Nixon\, International Director\, BSA Group \nCaroline has worked in international education for over 30 years.  She is International & Membership Director at Boarding Schools’ Association\, and Director of Caroline Nixon Education Ltd.\, as well as a member of the advisory group to the British Government’s All Party Parliamentary Group for international students. \nCaroline set up and runs the BSA educational agent certification scheme and is involved with the BSA’s accreditation of international schools.  Her background is in international education marketing and she also set up and ran a leading international school in the UK.  She has helped several UK schools to establish new overseas branches\, advised an international school opening in the UK\, set up a guardianship agency for an educational group\, and advises schools on international marketing and academic and pastoral provision for their international students. \n\nJohanna Prior\, Joint Principal\, The International College\, King’s School\, Canterbury  \nJo Prior grew up in Germany and attended university in England and France. Following a degree in English and French\, she lived and worked in China\, before completing teacher training in Scotland. She was a Teacher\, Boarding Tutor\, UCAS Advisor and Head of Year at Loretto before joining King’s as founding Principal of the International College. \n  \n\nJoanna Jackson\, International Registrar\, Sherborne School \nJoanna joined Sherborne School in 2011\, working at Sherborne International\, where she gained extensive knowledge and experience of the requirements and needs of international students.  In 2021 she moved across to Sherborne School’s Admissions Department where she is currently International Registrar.  Joanna has travelled extensively and has vast experience supporting pupils through the admissions journey and assisting them with their visa applications.  Prior to joining Sherborne\, Joanna worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and an international pharmaceutical training company.  \n\nGemma Kilby\, Head of Admissions\, Felsted School \nGemma is Head of Admissions & International Registrar at Felsted.  Prior to working for Felsted\, Gemma was an EAL teacher and taught in China for two years\, bringing an exciting cultural understanding to the Admissions Office at Felsted. Following her past experience in teaching overseas\, Gemma has a passion for the promotion of internationalism in education\, along with a desire to promote the benefits that boarding at school can bring for both UK and overseas students. \n  \n\nLauren Moore\, International Compliance Officer\, Felsted School  \nLauren Moore is the International Compliance Officer at Felsted School and responsible for ensuring the compliance of Home Office and UKVI guidance and regulations across the school. This includes the issuance of the school’s CAS documents\, monitoring of pupils’ travel and care arrangements during holidays and ensuring all documents and records relating to sponsored pupils and the schools sponsor licence are up to date and accurate. Prior to working for Felsted\, Lauren worked in the aviation industry travelling around the world\, where she enjoyed experiencing and learning about different cultures. \n\nTheresa Glasmacher\, Managing Director\, Barbara Glasmacher\, Internationale Schulberatung  \nTheresa Glasmacher is Managing Director of Glasmacher Schulberatung\, an agency specialized on the placement of students from Germany\, Austria and Switzerland in British boarding schools. After having spent her Sixth Form at a UK boarding school herself\, Theresa first did a banking apprenticeship in Munich. She then studied history and politics at the London School of Economics and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) in Boston. After university\, Theresa worked in the field of environmental and climate protection in Munich and Berlin\, where she was involved in Poland\, Hungary and Estonia’s processes of becoming EU members. She joined the family business Glasmacher Schulberatung in 2006 and for many years worked alongside her famous mother Barbara. She has been the agency’s Managing Director since 2013. \n\n \nMartyn Foulds\, Team Leader\, Study Operations\, Home Office  \n  \n  \n  \n\nHazar El–Chamaa\, Immigration Partner\, Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP and Chair\, ILPA \nHazar has over eight years’ immigration experience and has been advising education providers on all aspects of compliance\, restructuring and business strategies since the inception of Tier 4. Her experience also includes advising on appeals\, judicial review applications and challenges to Home Office decisions which affect sponsors. Hazar is a frequent speaker on immigration law and gives training on sponsor compliance and prevention of illegal working. She is an elected executive committee member of ILPA (Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association) and has been recommended by the Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession. Penningtons is recognised as a key link between the Home Office and educational institutions in the process of implementing and working through PBS reform. \n\nMark Taylor\, Consultant\, Verisio Ltd \nIn a previous reincarnation Mark founded The Taylor Partnership – supporting U.K. independent schools in meeting the compliance demands of their UKVI sponsor licences and training many school staff. More recently\, after travelling the world\, Mark has identified the increased risk to independent schools as a result of the need for greater probity and due diligence in financial awareness of school suppliers\, parents and agents. Mark’s interest in this field was first sparked in 2016-17 when he supported a number of schools following the disappearance of students from Vietnam. \nMark is working in partnership with Verisio\, a specialist organisation concentrating on integrity and due diligence checks on corporations and individuals. \n\nAndrew Steven\, Co-Founder of I-GTM  \nAndrew Steven is the co-founder of I-GTM\, a company established to meet the unique requirements of boarding schools. I-GTM provides a centralised system designed to streamline the process of reminding parents\, collecting information\, and ensuring the checks and balances essential for compliance and safeguarding oversight.  \nHis deep technical expertise\, combined with an understanding of the practical challenges faced by school administrators and transport teams\, has been crucial in developing I-GTM. This solution\, crafted by a UK-based development team\, tackles the issues related to travel and whereabouts for boarding schools.  \nBefore founding I-GTM\, Andrew was a partner at BDP\, a software company offering a SaaS solution for the Scottish conveyancing market. Under his leadership\, BDP experienced significant growth and was successfully sold in 2016 marking a notable milestone in his career and underscoring his ability to drive growth and deliver value in the tech industry.  \nAndrew Steven’s IT career spans several decades\, beginning in the late 90s with roles in web design and e-commerce. This experience has honed his ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both developers and users. With a passion for technology and a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions\, Andrew continues to drive innovation at I-GTM\, ensuring that the company’s clients receive the highest level of service and support.  \n\nLaura Brayley\, Assistant Head TSI (Pastoral & Co-Curricular) \nLaura is currently Assistant Head Pastoral at Taunton School International and has previously worked as Boarding Housemistress and Head of Boarding.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/baisis-visa-and-immigration-summer-term-conference/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Annual Conference for Heads
DESCRIPTION:Date: May 07-08\, 2024\nTime: 10:30 – 17:00\nCost: BSA Member delegate rate – £595\, BSA Affiliate member delegate rate – £895\nCost will include two-day conference\, conference refreshments and annual awards dinner on the evening of May 07.\nAudience: Heads\nVenue: Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5\nAccommodation: Please note accommodation is not included in the delegate rate. Delegates are able to book accommodation for the two-day conference using the online booking platform\, Roomex. Click here to login and secure your room using your school email address domain. A helpful BSA conference user guide is also available to watch here. If you would prefer to stay in the same hotel where the conference will be taking place\, please select ‘Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5’ when booking via the platform. Roomex searches 35 global sources to provide the best hotel solution in one place and can save you up to 25%. If you need assistance with your Roomex login\, please email priority@roomex.com\nExhibiting and sponsorship: We are delighted to be able to welcome organisations sponsorship and exhibition opportunities at this event\, for full details please reach out to Neil Rust\, Head of Commercial neil.rust@bsagroup.org.uk or Laura Brain\, Senior Commercial Consultant\, +44 (0)207 798 1580\, laura.brain@bsagroup.org.uk\n“Head to the Castle” 5 mile run: This is now fully booked. Anyone interested in registering for the reserve list for the run\, please email bsa@boarding.org.uk.\n\n\nSponsored by: \n \n\n \nWe’re looking forward to welcoming Heads from our member schools to our Annual Conference for Heads\, sponsored by Schoolblazer which takes place on May 07-08\, 2024. \nThis two-day conference will bring together leading boarding heads to reflect on the benefits of boarding and how to support heads in their leadership roles. \nThe conference also includes the BSA’s Annual Awards and Conference Dinner\, this year\, taking place on May 7\, 2024. The award categories for the BSA Supporting Excellence Awards are open for entries. Click here to view the categories and entry details. \nVIEW OUR CONFERENCE PROGRAMME HERE \nBOOK NOW \n  \n  \n  \n\nAs always the BSA Annual Conference was a wonderful opportunity to meet new colleagues\, reunite with old and dedicate the necessary time and space to the joys and challenges of leading our incredible schools. The BSA Annual Conference is a unique and special opportunity to dedicate thought and time to boarding and all that it brings to us\, our staff and our students. \nJo Cameron\, Principal\, Queenswood School \n\nGuest Speakers: \nInga Beale\, Former CEO\, Lloyd’s of London \nDame Inga Beale was the first female CEO at Lloyd’s of London between 2014-2018. With over three decades of global business experience she was awarded her Damehood in 2017 for services to the UK economy. Drawing on her own experiences\, Inga will discuss what it means to lead cultural change and steer a company through a technological transition without losing its core character. \n  \n\nBrian Holliday\, Managing Director\, Siemens Digital Industries \nBrian Holliday is Managing Director for Siemens Digital Industries\, a technology company serving the manufacturing and industrial-infrastructure sectors. He is co-chair of the Made Smarter Commission and a long-standing non-executive director at Make UK\, The Manufacturers’ Organisation. \nHe is an advocate for engineering\, innovation\, skills and advanced technology deployment\, contributing regularly to media\, policy forums and peer networks as a former board member for the High Value Manufacturing Catapult and former chair of the CBI’s Manufacturing Council too. \nBrian has been a community governor at a north-west primary school\, in addition to serving on the governing body at a University Technical College. He has contributed to parliamentary select committees on the topics of Industry 4.0 and skills\, indeed being upstaged by Pepper the robot\, on the first occasion AI had been used in such a forum. \nA 2022 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering\, Brian started his career as an apprentice with Texas Instruments and has degrees from Cardiff and Manchester Universities in addition to an honorary doctorate from Middlesex University. \n\n \nSurgeon Rear Admiral Fleur Marshall KHP MRCGP MA\, Director Medical Personnel and Training \nFleur Marshall joined the Royal Navy as a medical cadet in 1992 and has served in a variety of ships  deploying from the South Atlantic and Antarctica to the Middle East and Far East. Since qualifying as a GP\, she worked for Flag Officer Sea Training\, deployed at sea and served in Royal Navy Establishments in healthcare delivery roles.  She is a graduate of the Advanced Command and Staff Course 12. \nSince promotion to Surgeon Captain she has been Regional Clinical Director (South) in the Defence Primary Healthcare organisation\, served as Medical Officer in Charge of the Institute of Naval Medicine and as Assistant Head\, Medical Defence Engagement.  She is a Member of Royal College of Defence Studies completing the course in 2016. \nIn Feb 19 on promotion to Surgeon Commodore\, Marshall took over as Head of Healthcare Plans\, within HQ Defence Medical Group and was involved in early stages of modernisation of the DMS. In Apr 21\, Surg Cdre Marshall became the Head of Healthcare for the Royal Navy and Head of the Royal Navy Medical Service. \nIn Mar 23 she was promoted to Surgeon Rear Admiral and appointed as Director Medical Personnel and Training in HQ DMS. \n\nBen Collingwood\, Partner\, Schools & Charities\, Moore Barlow \nBen specialises in advising independent schools and other charities on wide ranging areas of education law\, with particular focus on reputation issues\, pastoral\, safeguarding\, historic abuse allegations\, SEN\, exclusions\, parent/pupil complaints\, data protection\, parent contracts\, admissions and staff matters of all types. \nBen has written and spoken widely on issues facing the independent schools sector\, providing comment in The Times\, The Guardian\, The Lawyer and Law Society’s Gazette and at the national conferences and training programmes for the various associations that support independent schools including BSA\, ISBA\, HMC\, IAPS and AGBIS. \nBen lives with his wife and three children in West Sussex. He has been a devoted surfer since my childhood and loves to spend as much of his free time as possible in the sea and walking his pointers with his family. \n\nAdam McRae-Taylor\, Legal Director\, Schools & Charities\, Moore Barlow \nAdam specialises in employment and education law and advise on issues such as unfair dismissal\, discrimination cases\, safeguarding\, parent contracts and data protection issues including in relation to the GDPR. \nHis approach is to work with schools and charities to ensure that they are managing their staff fairly and lawfully\, as a happy workforce. This not only helps an organisation thrive and grow\, but also prevents managers from being distracted by disputes. Where contentious issues do arise\, he is experienced in employment tribunal litigation and he regularly advises on employment claims such as unfair dismissal\, whistleblowing and discrimination. \nHe trained and qualified in employment law with a Magic Circle firm in London. Before joining the Schools & Charities Team at Moore Barlow LLP (formerly Barlow Robbins LLP)\, he spent two years working in-house for a charity which gave him an invaluable perspective on how to provide practical advice on the issues charities commonly face. \n\nJoanna Lada-Walicki\, Head of Schools & Charities\, Moore Barlow \nJoanna heads the Moore Barlow’s independent schools and charities practice. She specialises in education and employment law. She advises on a range of employment and pastoral issues\, in particular when the reputation of a school is at stake. \nAn area of particular interest for Joanna is safeguarding and she has spoken widely on this subject national conferences and has also written widely on this and other issues affecting schools and charities. \nA major part of our practice is in relation to the management of allegations against staff as well as child-on-child abuse\, including guidance on making appropriate referrals. This inevitably overlaps with the question of sex and gender and Joanna has particular interest in how schools support and safeguard trans-gender people. \n\n \nJames Wood\, Regional Security Director\, Northern Europe\, International SOS \nIn this role\, James provides strategic security advice\, guidance and support to clients throughout the region on all aspects of our Security service delivery. \nPrior to this\, James led International SOS’ global Security Consulting Practice between 2019 and 2022. He also led a team of 35 security experts who focus on expert consulting engagements with clients in their geographic regions of responsibility\, as well as thought leadership\, operational delivery and oversight and delivery of International SOS solutions. \nA certified Business Continuity expert through the Business Continuity Institute\, James joined International SOS in May 2011 as Coordinating Security Manager for the Asia Pacific region where he supported clients during security incidents such as violent unrest in northern Papua New Guinea\, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and flooding in Jakarta. \nHe subsequently moved\, in September 2014\, to the role of Regional Security Operations Manager in the Europe Regional Security Centre\, with a focus on Europe\, Central Asia and West & Maghreb Africa. In 2015\, James moved to London where he helped to set up the 24/7 Security Centre. In this role\, James oversaw the company’s security support to client Crisis Management and Business Continuity Teams and the evacuations of their employees during escalations in locations including UK\, Germany\, France\, Belgium\, Congo\, Democratic Republic of Congo\, Cote d’Ivoire\, Burkina Faso and Burundi. \nBetween July 2017 and December 2018\, James was the lead security consulting resource in the UK & Ireland and latterly EMEA\, working closely with clients at a strategic level to ensure appropriate support to their Risk Mitigation and Resilience teams. \nPrior to joining International SOS\, James was a police officer with Thames Valley Police\, UK. Having spent time as a uniformed officer in Oxfordshire dealing with incidents ranging from large scale protests to murders\, he then moved to a specialist detective unit investigating acquisitive crime throughout the southeast of England. While in this post he also organised and conducted surveillance\, investigation\, and disruption operations\, gathering intelligence and targeting Organised Crime groups throughout the Thames Valley area and with other UK police services. \nJames has a BA (Hons) in French and History from the University of Warwick\, specialising in French foreign policy and American politics and is a member of both the Security Institute and the Business Continuity Institute. \n\nDr Anthony Renshaw\, Regional Medical Director\, International SOS \nDr Anthony Renshaw is a Regional Medical Director with the (Europe) Health Consulting Practice. He provides medical advisory to a variety of global organisations and has worked extensively across\nEurope\, Asia-Pacific and Africa. \nAnthony joined International SOS\, Beijing in 2008 as Medical Director where he oversaw medical services delivery and health consulting platforms in China\, Mongolia\, Russian Far East\, Korea and Japan. In 2011\, he moved to Sydney to develop medical services and occupational health solutions in Australia and the Pacific\, relocating back to London in 2017. His main areas of expertise are\, crisis management; remote healthcare support; pandemic planning and healthcare management. \nAnthony has overseen remote health services across the world for industrial clients and government departments\, from prisons to defence\, and provided corporate health solutions to numerous Fortune 500 clients in finance\, hi-tech\, professional services and manufacturing sectors. He is currently medical advisor to a UK-based multinational bank and a major international NGO\, amongst others. Prior to joining International SOS\, he was a surgeon in the NHS (UK) and in South Africa. \nAnthony is a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh\, an Associate of the Faculty of Remote and Rural Health\, a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. He trained in medicine at the University of Manchester where he obtained degrees in immunology and oncology. He also holds a doctorate in plastic and reconstructive surgery from University College London (UCL)\, and an Executive Master in Business Administration from INSEAD\, Fontainebleau. \n\nMaya Birch\, Senior Business Manager – Project Development\, Education\, HAYS \nMaya Birch is an education recruitment professional with over 14 years of experience with Hays. Maya provides innovative and effective talent acquisition solution-led services for schools and MATs. She currently holds a national role in client engagement\, working closely with BSA to curate a new recruitment platform for boarding schools. The objective of which is to help schools manage all vacancies cost-effectively and improve practices for staff attraction and retention. \n  \n\nKatherine Whipps\, Account Director\, HAYS \nKatherine Whipps is an Account Director with 24 years of experience at Hays. Katherine holds a national role and manages relationships with some of Hays’ most valuable PSL customers\, being their central point of contact. Katherine builds meaningful relationships with key stakeholder clients and offers solution-based consultancy to achieve integral recruitment objectives. Katherine’s experience spans many sectors including Construction and Property\, Telecoms and Education\, with the BSA partnership being the most recent. \n  \n\nBerman Zhigalko\, Consultant\, FAIRER Consulting (DE&I Advisory Services\, Hays International) \nBerman is a consultant at FAIRER Consulting\, a part of DE&I Advisory Services at Hays International. He is an experienced professional in diversity\, equity and inclusion\, as well as talent advisory. \nCurrently\, Berman supports various clients across the private sector and is exploring new ways to embed DE&I into various processes within organisations. \nHe has supported and led several client projects around DE&I audit and talent acquisition\, with his key interest lying in building DE&I strategy\, as well DE&I behavioural change and activities. \n\nDominic Norrish\, CEO\, IAPS \nDominic is Chief Executive Officer of IAPS\, the largest Heads’ association in the independent sector\, serving schools in the UK and globally. Prior to this\, he was Chief Operating Officer at United Learning\, with responsibilities spanning digital\, HR and marketing for their then 90+ independent and state schools\, his experience leading them through the pandemic capping a decade spent working at scale to create education-focused services to support school effectiveness. He began his career as a Year 5 teacher before moving into school leadership roles and time spent in the private sector. \n  \n\nMark Coleman\, Founder and Group CEO\, The SDS & IA Group of Companies \nMark Coleman is The SDS Group Founder and CEO. With a degree in software engineering and a passion for history\, Mark established SDS 30 years ago to become one of the UK’s leading companies for online heritage digitisation. SDS supports more than 650 UK independent schools as well as BSA Group\, AGBIS\, ASCL\, GSA\, HMC\, IAPS\, IDPE\, ISA\, ISBA and The ISC. Other clients include the Bank of England\, BBC\, British Museum\, Chatham House\, John Lewis\, National Gallery and the House of Lords. \n  \n\nEd Dorrell\, Partner\, Public First \nEd is a Partner at Public First. Before taking up this role\, he was one of the most experienced and respected education journalists in Britain. He was deputy editor of the Times Educational Supplement (TES) for seven years\, a role he combined with being comment editor and before that he was news editor for five years. Previously he was news editor of the Architects’ Journal\, where he was a well known commentator on planning and regeneration. He has also written for most national papers including the Guardian\, the Times\, the Telegraph and the Independent. He is known for his sharp policy analysis\, his wide ranging network in the media\, and his skill at writing and shaping news and opinion from leading politicians\, chief executives\, high profile individuals\, and large and small organisations. He offers high-value counsel and insight on media affairs\, public opinion and policy formulation to many of Public First’s major clients. \n\nAmy Lockwood\, Education Manager\, Childnet \nAmy joined the Childnet team in November 2017 as Education Officer. Amy is a qualified teacher who taught KS2 in Ely after completing her PGCE at the University of Cambridge. \nPrior to this\, she graduated from Aberystwyth University with a degree in Human Geography. During her degree studies Amy pursued her interest in how young people engage with the digital world\, completing a dissertation titled ‘#digitalcitizenship. A geographical study of the construction of youth citizenship through social media and the Internet.’ \nAmy grew up as an active Internet user and is passionate about the exciting opportunities the digital world has to offer young people. \n\nGinny Rhodes\, CEO\, The Circle Trust \nGinny has been a fully qualified teacher of some 30 years standing\, latterly as Headteacher at St Crispin’s School in Wokingham which is a large (1\,450) mixed comprehensive secondary school.  Her leadership was rated at outstanding and is described by OFSTED as providing “… absolute clarity on the school’s focus for improvement and has created the conditions for all staff to feel included in driving standards forward.”   Currently Ginny is the founding CEO of The Circle Trust which is a Multi-Academy Trust of currently of ten schools (and growing!)   Schools in the Trust span from Infant Schools with nursery provision to Secondary Schools with Sixth Forms and serves over 5000 pupils and 500+ employees.  Multi-Academy Trusts are educational charities they exist to do one thing and that is to promote education for the common good.  To this end Ginny is a Governor at Wellington College playing a pivotal role in developing the state and independent school partnership.  She also serves as a Trustee for AQA the country’s largest exam board and is a Lead OFSTED Inspector. \n\n \nLucy Pearson\, Director of Education\, FA \nLucy plays a strategic role within the technical directorate at St. George’s Park\, with overall responsibility for coach education and the professional development programme with a key objective of growing the number of qualified and appropriately-skilled coaches across the game. \nWorking at the national football centre\, Pearson brings the benefits of a high-achieving career in education coupled with an elite sporting background. \nFormerly the Head of Cheadle Hulme School in Cheshire\, where she was the first woman to hold that position in its 150-year history\, Pearson played cricket for England between 1996 and 2005\, and has been a director of the England and Wales Cricket Board since 2016. \n\nOliver Blond\, Chief Executive\, School Partnerships Alliance \nOliver is the Chief Executive of the School Partnerships Alliance\, a charity which supports cross-sector partnerships. He has been a Head in both the state and independent sectors for over seventeen years at The Henrietta Barnett School and Roedean School\, and is also the Academic Director of the PTI\, an educational charity delivering subject-based professional development to school teachers and leaders. \n  \n\nFellow Head Speakers: \nJo Cameron\, BSA Chair\, 2024 and Principal\, Queenswood School \nJo Cameron has been Principal of Queenswood School since 2016\, having previously worked as Deputy Head at Ipswich High School for Girls.  A graduate of the University of Surrey (St Mary’s College) with an honours degree in Environmental Science\, for the past 26 years Mrs Cameron has worked almost exclusively in all girls’ schools. She began her teaching career as a Science teacher specialising in Biology at St Mary’s\, Wantage\, where she quickly progressed to become Head of the Science Department. She has a deep understanding and appreciation of the unique opportunities that single sex education offers\, and is firmly of the belief that ‘happy girls are successful girls’.  Beyond the classroom\, in her spare time Mrs Cameron is a keen sportswoman\, with a passion for hockey\, running and equestrianism. \n\nIrfan Latif\, Principal\, DLD College London \nIrfan is Principal of DLD College. Over the past decade he has served as BSA State Boarding Schools’ Forum Chair\, BSA Vice Chair\, BSA London Boarding Forum Chair and BSA Executive Committee Inclusion and AGBIS representative. Irfan is a Society of Heads committee member\, co-founder of the ISC’s Inclusion and Diversity Group\, a director of AGBIS and a school governor. He is also a charity trustee and former member of the Diocese of Bath & Wells Board of Education. \n  \n\nSir Anthony Seldon\, Head\, Epsom College \nSir Anthony Seldon\, is one of Britain’s leading contemporary historians\, educationalists\, commentators and political authors. Head of Epsom College since February 2023\, he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham from 2015 to 2020 after being a transformative head for 20 years of Brighton College and then Wellington College. He is author or editor of over 45 books on contemporary history\, including the inside books on the last six Prime Ministers\, was the co-founder and first director of the Institute for Contemporary British History\, is cofounder of Action for Happiness\, was honorary historical adviser to 10 Downing Street for ten years\, was the UK’s Special Representative for Education to Saudi Arabia\, was Deputy Chair of The Times Education Commission\, was a member of the Government’s First World War Culture Committee\, was chair of the Comment Awards\, is a director of the Royal Shakespeare Company\, is the President of IPEN\, (International Positive Education Network)\, is Chair of the National Archives Trust and is initiator and deputy chair of the “commission on the centre” run by the Institute for government. He is patron or on the board of several charities\, founder of the Via Sacra Western Front Walk\, and was executive producer of the film Journey’s End. He appeared on the Desert Island Discs in 2016. For the last fifteen years he has given his money from writing and lecturing to charity. He has three children; his wife of 34 years\, Joanna\, died of cancer in December 2016. He married Sarah in April 2022. \n\nWayne Brown\, Headmaster\, Whanganui Collegiate School\, New Zealand \nWayne Brown is Headmaster of Whanganui Collegiate School\, New Zealand. Whanganui Collegiate is held in high esteem as the preeminent co-educational boarding school in NZ.   Wayne has held boarding\, and senior educational positions in the UK and Australia\, along with serving as a trustee on several NFP boards in the last 10 years. Wayne has extensive knowledge\, understanding\, experience and passion for education\, in particular boarding schools\, building good young men and women to be inspiring role models within a global community.  Wayne has also had a career in professional sport\, both as a player and coach in basketball\, notably\, being Assistant Coach with the NZ Breakers in the professional Australian National Basketball League\, and as an advisor and technical video coach with the National Team – Tall Blacks in the early 2000’s.  A graduate of the Said Business School\, Oxford University\, where he studied Executive Leadership\, Wayne has been recognised as a futurist thinker in character education and has been asked to speak at several conferences across NZ and overseas. \n\nTom Rogerson\, Headmaster\, Cottesmore School \nTom Rogerson has been working in the independent school sector for 32 years and is in his 16th year of Headship at Cottesmore School\, an academic boarding prep school for girls and boys on the border of Surrey and Sussex. \nCottesmore is ‘Prep School of the Year 2020/ 21’ Tatler Schools Awards\, ‘Boarding School of the Year’ Times Educational Supplement Schools Awards 2019 and ‘Happiest Boarding School’ Muddy Stilettos Schools Awards 2023. Cottesmore was nominated for ‘Prep School of the Year 2024’ at the Tatler Schools Awards\, ‘Boarding School of the Year 2023’ at the Independent Schools of the Year Awards and ‘Prep School of the Year’ at the Times Educational Supplement Awards 2023. \nEducated at Eton and Cambridge\, Tom has since taken only one year out of teaching in order to work for Vivendi-owned conglomerate Universal Music International in the A&R department looking after American artists such as Eminem\, Nelly Furtado and Erica Badu. \nHe is in a rock band called The Replicant Saints who met at school; he would like to start a band made up of heads. \n\nAndy Kemp\, Principal\, National Mathematics and Science College \nDr Andy Kemp is Principal of The National Mathematics and Science College\, based in the Midlands on the edge of the Warwick University campus.  The National Mathematics and Science College is the top performing specialist STEM sixth form day and boarding school in the UK.  Joining NatMatSci was something of a homecoming for him as he studied for his BSc in Mathematics\, PGCE\, MSc and EdD in Mathematics Education all at the University of Warwick.  More recently he has completed his MBA at UCL in 2017. \nHe has spoken at conferences around the world in relation to the role that technology and AI play in education\, and has been published in several journals\, magazines\, and collective works. \n\nSimon Henderson\, Head\, Eton College \nPrior to joining Bradfield College\, Simon was Deputy Head (Academic) at Sherborne School. He already knew Eton well having taught history here for eight years from 2001. He was Head of History for four of those years. Simon is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching\, a Trustee and former Vice-President (Europe) of the International Boys’ School Coalition and a governor of the London Academy of Excellence. A graduate of Brasenose College\, Oxford\, Simon is married to Ali (who is the Chief Executive of Royal SpringBoard\, a social mobility charity) and they have four children. \n  \n\nSession Chairs: \nNaheed Bardai\, Principal\, UWC Atlantic \nNaheed assumed the role of Head of UWC Atlantic in August 2021.  As an educational leader\, Naheed believes that education is a deeply moral endeavour\, and the exercise of leadership demands a thoughtful ethical foundation: his rests on the pillars of pluralism\, integrity\, generosity\, and trust. \nOver his educational career\, Naheed has had the privilege of working in two prior schools: most recently as the Head of Upper School at Upper Canada College in Toronto\, Canada for six years and at the Aga Khan Academy\, Mombasa in Kenya serving as Dean of Students and Principal of the Senior School over a 10-year period. \nNaheed holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from the Western University in Canada\, a Bachelor Degree in Education from the University of British Columbia in Canada\, a Masters of Arts from the Institute of Education\, University College London in the UK and a Masters of Educational Leadership from Teachers College\, Columbia University in the United States. \n\nSimon Lockyer\, Headmaster\, The Royal Hospital School  \nSimon has been teaching for 28 years of which the majority have been in boarding schools. After leaving Blundell’s School he attended the University of Newcastle\, followed by a PGCE at the University of Cambridge and gained an MA in Educational Leadership at the University of Buckingham.  Simon started his teaching career at Bishop’s Stortford High School where he was a Teacher of Biology and Assistant Head of Sixth Form (1996-1999). He spent ten years at Wellington College as a Housemaster and Head of Department (1999-2009) before joining Portsmouth Grammar School as Second Master (2009-2015).  Simon has been Headmaster of the Royal Hospital School since January 2016 but will be moving to a new role as Principal and CEO of the British School of Milan in September 2024. \nSimon attended boarding school from the age of eight and enjoyed almost every minute of it.  He has a strong interest in character development\, pastoral welfare systems and how schools develop young people for future employment. He has led on various technological innovations in schools and it has been an area that his current school continues to be a leader in the sector. \n\nChris Pyle\, Headmaster\, Lancaster Royal Grammar and BSA Chair 2025 (Incoming) \nDr Chris Pyle has been Head of Lancaster Royal Grammar School since 2012.  He is Chair of the State Boarding Forum and a Vice Chair of the Boarding Schools Association.  LRGS is a selective grammar school with 1250 pupils including 170 boarders.  The Sixth Form became coeducational in 2018\, and the school opened its first girls’ boarding house in 2019.  He is a geographer by background and previously taught at the Perse School\, Cambridge. \n  \n\nSpeakers from the BSA Team: \n \nRobin Fletcher\, Chief Executive\, BSA Group \nRobin Fletcher is CEO of BSA Group\, comprising BAISIS (British Association of Independent Schools with International Students)\, BSA (Boarding Schools’ Association)\, BSA Legal\, HIEDA (Health in Education Association) SACPA (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association) and TIOB (The Institute of Boarding). A former journalist\, editor and communications director\, Robin is a non-executive director of the manufacturers’ trade body Make UK\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University. \n  \n\n \nDale Wilkins\, Senior Director\, BSA and BSA Group \nDale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards\, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme\, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA\, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter and has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI\, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards\, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit\, which he first produced in 2002\, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding. \nFor 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College\, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992\, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007\, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board. \n\nKate Hollyer\, Legal and Public Affairs Director\, BSA Group\, Director\, BSA Group Legal Services Ltd \nKate is Legal and Public Affairs Director of BSA Group and Director of BSA Group Legal Services Ltd\, BSA Group’s SRA-regulated law firm. As a qualified solicitor of England and Wales with more than 12 years’ experience advising clients on UK immigration and nationality law\, Kate supports members with all UK immigration matters including UKVI sponsor licence compliance. Kate is a member of the Home Office Education Advisory Group and is the boarding sector representative for this group. Prior to joining BSA in 2022 Kate was Partner and Head of Department at a leading full-service UK law firm. Having resided in state\, preparatory and senior school boarding houses since 2014 with her Housemaster husband\, Kate has a unique perspective of boarding life. \n  \n\nDavid Walker\, Director\, BSA \nDavid is the BSA Director 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. \n  \n  \n\n \n\nLee Glaser\, Executive Director\, Specialist Services \nLee has extensive experience in pastoral care. Prior to becoming Headmaster and CEO at Taunton School in Somerset he was the School’s Deputy Head which involved leading the pastoral team and being the Designated Safeguarding Lead. Outstanding support for student and staff wellbeing has always been at the heart of his approach and the School was recently shortlisted for a TES Award for excellence in this area. \nLee has always worked closely with the School’s medical team which provided excellent support to the community\, particularly during the COVID pandemic. He is excited to be supporting HIEDA members in delivering the highest quality of care in their own environments. \n\n \nBethan Waddington\, Director\, BAISIS \nBethan Waddington joined the BSA team as Training Manager in September 2017. Bethan has worked in two independent boarding schools in the UK and Switzerland\, the latter as Housemistress to 36 pupils. Following her time in Switzerland\, she was a Pastoral Manager for an inner-city state academy before working in the charity sector for Debrett’s running the ‘Debrett’s Foundation’ training programme. \nIn her role\, Bethan plans and manages all Day Seminars\, Conferences\, INSET and Consultancy\, as well as being Director of BAISIS. She believes boarding can be a positive force for young people and in order to fully support their needs staff can never learn too much. As such she is passionate about the CPD BSA delivers to our pastoral communities in the UK and worldwide. \n\n\n\n\n Add to calendar
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SUMMARY:BAISIS/SACPA Conference - Safeguarding international students
DESCRIPTION:Date: April 24\, 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 09:30 – 16:30\n\n\n\nCost: BSA/SACPA/BAISIS Full Member – £215\, BSA/SACPA/BAISIS Additional Member Fee – £110\, Non-member – £430\n\n\n\nAudience: SMT/SLT\, DSL/CPO\, Pastoral staff\, all practitioners supporting international students\, Agents & Guardians\n\n\n\nPlatform: Zoom (online) – webinar\n\n\nCourse outline: \nSafeguarding international students remains a complex and challenging area of work. It is important to recognise the vulnerabilities of international students studying\, and indeed living\, away from home. This conference brings together expert speakers with specialist knowledge and experience who work with international students.  \nIt aims to inform and support colleagues managing safeguarding in international contexts and focusses on emerging themes and concerns including mental health\, online safety and navigating cultural norms.  \nWe will facilitate questions directly from members to our experts throughout the day and encourage delegates to come prepared with questions for our panels.  \nTraining topics will include: \n\nKey themes for 2024: safeguarding children and young people in international settings \nDelivering preventative safeguarding education: navigating cultural norms and picking up unmet trauma needs \nHow does the online safety agenda influence international safeguarding practice? \nThe crossover between safeguarding duties and Sponsor responsibility \nSafeguarding young adults: empowering international young people  \nThe practical application of safeguarding policy \nPanel discussion summary of the day with key learning points from the day. \n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nBe confident that you have the most up to date information on key trends in safeguarding international students \nIncrease knowledge and understanding of cultural norms and how to navigate barriers to delivering better outcomes \nFeel more informed about how the online safety agenda influences international safeguarding policy and practice \nIdentify which learning points highlighted may be applicable to your own safeguarding practice and consider how these may be implemented. \n\n*If you are a BSA member\, we are pleased to offer this booking at the members price* \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nProgramme:  \n09:30 – 10:15 \nWelcome and keynote – Exploring Safeguarding through a rights-based lens \nOur keynote speaker will explore safeguarding through a child rights lens and discuss how underpinning safeguarding practice with the UNCRC can support practitioners to navigate the global and domestic complex\, multi-layered safeguarding landscape. The session will include relevant statistics and specifics around supporting international students and how supporting students as agents of change can present opportunities to applying and adapting our safeguarding principles and practice. \n\nSarah Bellotti\, Chair\, BAISIS and Head\, Mill Hill International\nSarah Lancaster\, Director of Safeguarding: Children’s rights\, safeguarding and participation\, UNICEF \n\n10:15 – 10:30 \nBreak   \n10:30 – 11:30 \nHow does the online safety agenda influence international safeguarding practice?  \nMany safeguarding concerns and issues around online safety\, internet use and engagement are very similar for all young people. However\, we know that for young people coming from different\, in some cases more restrictive\, backgrounds\, be that parental\, cultural or political\, new freedoms and access can be exciting and bring their own challenges. This session will highlight areas for discussion around online safety that may require extra consideration for international students including the impact of different languages when filtering and monitoring\, awareness of more popular apps and functions\, VPN use and educating the students themselves. \n\nBethan Waddington\, Director\, BAISIS\nKarl Hopwood\, esafety expert and Chair\, SACPA\n\n11:30 – 11:45 \nBreak   \n11:45 – 12:30 \nSafeguarding considerations when working with cultural aspects of trauma  \nThis session explores how practitioners can support international students exposed to trauma either through lived experience or through navigating cultural variations in studying away from home.  \n\nClaire Dan\, Director\, SACPA\nTom Caston\, Principal\, MPW Cambridge \nMark Heywood\, Principal\, The Royal School Wolverhampton\n\n12:30 – 13:30 \nLunch  \n13:30 – 14:30   \nStatutory risks: implementation of safeguarding and due diligence from the point of acceptance \nThis session will identify the areas where your duty of care and safeguarding responsibilities intersect with your statutory requirements as a Sponsor. Our speakers will highlight the importance of embedding a robust safeguarding thread through all processes relating to the recruitment and acceptance of international students addressing possible risk areas including pre-arrival\, travel and forming a relationship with the family. \n\nBethan Waddington\, Director\, BAISIS\nKate Hollyer\, Legal and Public Affairs Director\, BSA Group \n\n14:30 – 14:45 \nBreak  \n14:45 – 15:30 \nSafeguarding young adults: empowering individuals through school and further education \nDo your international students know about your safeguarding policy and their right to a safe and happy time in your care? Is this information readily accessible and highlighted to them? This session will consider how we can equip students with the knowledge and understanding of safeguarding to empower them as they engage with their education\, extra-curricular activities and life in the wider community. \n\nClaire Dan\, Director\, SACPA\nBill Prior\, Joint Principal\, The International College\, King’s School\, Canterbury\n\n15:30 – 15:45 \nBreak  \n15:45 – 16:30   \nThe practical application of safeguarding policy: case studies concerning international students and Conference close \nIn this session we will hear from a panel of current practitioners on their experiences of implementing safeguarding and related policy with international students and their families. \n\nDale Wilkins\, Senior Director\, BSA and BSA Group\nSimon Hill\, Deputy Head (Pastoral)\, Christ College Brecon\nCarolyn Harrison\, Deputy Head (Pastoral)\, Fettes College\nClaire Dan\, Director of Safeguarding and Director\, Sacpa\nBethan Waddington\, Director\, BAISIS\n\n\nSpeakers: \n \nClaire Dan\, Director of Safeguarding and Director\, Sacpa \nClaire is Director of Safeguarding and Director\, Sacpa and leads on the provision of safeguarding advice and support to members and the development and delivery of CPD and safeguarding consultancy services. Claire is a safeguarding specialist and leader with a background in education welfare\, youth justice\, and early help contexts which have involved a strong focus on diverse and collaborative partnerships\, professional development and supervision of front-line safeguarding colleagues\, and leading multi-disciplinary teams and projects. Between 2006 and 2013 Claire was involved with Luton Safeguarding Children Board as a lead multi-agency safeguarding trainer\, developing and delivering single and multi-agency safeguarding training\, and since 2013 has delivered pieces of bespoke consultancy work\, and providing a range of safeguarding consultancy on a freelance basis. \nKate Hollyer\, Legal and Public Affairs Director \nKate is Legal and Public Affairs Director of BSA Group and Director of BSA Group Legal Services Ltd\, BSA Group’s SRA-regulated law firm. As a qualified solicitor of England and Wales with more than 12 years’ experience advising clients on UK immigration and nationality law\, Kate supports members with all UK immigration matters including UKVI sponsor licence compliance. Kate is a member of the Home Office Education Advisory Group and is the boarding sector representative for this group. Prior to joining BSA in 2022 Kate was Partner and Head of Department at a leading full-service UK law firm. Having resided in state\, preparatory and senior school boarding houses since 2014 with her Housemaster husband\, Kate has a unique perspective of boarding life. \n \nBethan Waddington\, Director\, BAISIS \nBethan Waddington joined the BSA team as Training Manager in September 2017. Bethan has worked in two independent boarding schools in the UK and Switzerland\, the latter as Housemistress to 36 pupils. Following her time in Switzerland\, she was a Pastoral Manager for an inner-city state academy before working in the charity sector for Debrett’s running the ‘Debrett’s Foundation’ training programme. \nIn her role\, Bethan plans and manages all Day Seminars\, Conferences\, INSET and Consultancy\, as well as being Director of BAISIS. She believes boarding can be a positive force for young people and in order to fully support their needs staff can never learn too much. As such she is passionate about the CPD BSA delivers to our pastoral communities in the UK and worldwide. \n \nDale Wilkins\, Senior Director\, BSA and BSA Group \nDale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards\, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme\, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA\, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter and has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI\, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards\, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit\, which he first produced in 2002\, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding. \nFor 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College\, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992\, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007\, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board. \n \nSarah Bellotti\, Chair BAISIS and Head Mill Hill International \nSarah was elected BAISIS Chair in January 2022\, having served as Deputy Chair since November 2020.Sarah started her career in education at an international school in Rome\, Italy and then returned to the UK to take up a post at King’s Ely where she later became Director of King’s Ely International. Since 2014\, Sarah has worked at Mill Hill International as the founding Headteacher. \n  \n \nKarl Hopwood\, E-Safety Expert and Chair\, SACPA \nKarl Hopwood is an esafety expert. He is a member of UKCCIS (UK Council for Child Internet Safety) and sits on the advisory board for the new UK Safer Internet Centre. Karl has worked for a number of key players in the UK and abroad including CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre)\, BECTA (British Educational and Communications Technology Agency)\, the European Commission and several Local Authorities within the UK. As an ex headteacher\, he continues to work closely with children\, young people\, parents and teachers to develop safer online behaviours and the promotion of digital literacy. Karl works closely with the Boarding Schools’ Association and supports many of their schools. He is also an in-house consultant for INSAFE which is the coordinating node of the EU safer internet programme. \nSimon Hill\, Deputy Head (Pastoral)\, Christ College Brecon \nSimon grew up in Eastbourne\, East Sussex and was educated at Eastbourne College. He gained a BA (Hons) Geography at Kings College London University and a PGCE at the Institute of Education\, London. He started his career as a teacher of geography at King Edward’s School\, Surrey\, before moving to Glenalmond College\, Perth where he was Senior Housemaster. In 2010\, Simon was appointed as Director of Boarding at Brisbane Grammar School\, Queensland\, before moving back to the UK to join Christ College as Deputy Head (Pastoral) in 2016.  His focus is on pupil wellbeing\, the second curriculum and sport of all types.  He also runs the school’s annual pupil exchange programme to Japan. \n  \nSarah Lancaster\, Director of Safeguarding: Children’s rights\, safeguarding and participation\, UNICEF \nSarah Lancaster is the Director of Safeguarding at UNICEF UK and oversees a team of technical specialists that support UNICEF UK’s work around Youth Voice and Influence\, Children’s Rights in Sport and Safeguarding.  \nSarah has over 16 years child protection and safeguarding experience\, both within statutory and NGO organisations working with children and young people. In her spare time\, she is also a Cub Scout Leader\, supporting young people in their personal development\, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society\, and gain important skills for life that support their growth and development.    \nSarah is passionate and committed to upholding the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and uses a rights-based approach throughout all of her work\, ensuring children are not discriminated against and that their voices are amplified and their views listened to. \nBill Prior\, Joint Principal\, The International College\, King’s School\, Canterbury \nBill is founding Joint Principal at King’s International College in Canterbury. He has worked in China\, Scotland\, England and Germany in school management\, development\, teaching and qualifications. He has a First in Chinese from the University of Oxford\, trained as a teacher at Edinburgh University and later returned to Oxford to complete a Masters in Education. He is a Scot and speaks fluent Mandarin and German. \n  \nTom Caston\, Principal\, MPW Cambridge  \nTom Caston is Principal at MPW Cambridge\, as Fifth and Sixth Form College with 50% international students. Tom read Geography at the University of Exeter and subsequently gained an MSc in Managing School Improvement from the University of Reading. He worked in investment banking before starting his teaching career at Shiplake College in 1999. Prior to joining MPW he held senior posts in a number of independent schools\, most recently a Deputy Headship at Framlingham College. \n  \nMark Heywood\, Principal\, The Royal School Wolverhampton \nCurrently Principal/CEO of The Royal School\, Wolverhampton an all-through\, co-ed\, non-selective day and state boarding school of some 1500 pupils in the West Midlands.  Has been in post since 2011\, converting from independent school to State Free School/Academy in 2016.  Over past 40 years he has worked in state and independent schools\, boarding and day settings in London\, Cumbria\, Tyneside and now West Midlands.  \nThe Royal School has developed experience in working with Looked After Children (LAC) and UASC for a number of years\, the work of which featured in the Independent Review into Children’s Social Care report of 2022 and works closely with the RNSCF Springboard Trust on their Expert Advisory Group to the Government on the potential benefits of boarding in working with vulnerable children. \nMark has taught geography\, geology\, PE and Games and has a passion for outdoor education and international expeditions. \n \nCarolyn Harrison\, Deputy Head (Pastoral)\, Fettes College \nCarolyn grew up in the Outer Hebrides on the Isle of Lewis. Having studied Modern Languages at Cambridge University\, she joined Fettes College initially as a French teacher but was quickly drawn to the pastoral side of life at the school\, as a Houseparent in both the Prep School and the Senior School for over twenty years. Now as Deputy Head (Pastoral)\, she feels privileged to lead the school’s pastoral team\, supporting students\,families and staff every day. Outside the school gates\, her secret passions are spending time in the Harris hills and Formula 1. \n 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/baisis-sacpa-conference-safeguarding-international-students/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
ORGANIZER;CN="The Safeguarding and Child Protection Association (Sacpa)":MAILTO:info@sacpa.org.uk
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