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SUMMARY:Developing a culture of belonging
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ £90-180\, with additional tickets from £45\n🎧 Inclusion leads\, pastoral leads\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nCourse outline: \nThis webinar explores how to build a strong culture of belonging within your boarding community and wider school. You’ll learn the theory and importance of belonging\, as well as practical strategies to foster a true sense of community identity for both students and staff – going beyond diversity to embed belonging deeply in your school’s ethos. \nLearning outcomes: \n\nUnderstand why belonging matters\nGain practical tools to nurture a welcoming\, inclusive school community.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker:  \n \nCoco Stevenson\, Educational Consultant  \nCoco Stevenson has worked in a number of schools in senior leadership roles\, most recently at St Paul’s Girls’ School where she was Deputy Head: Director of Safeguarding and Inclusion. Coco has also been Deputy Head Pastoral at City of London School and at Latymer Upper. She speaks\, advises and consults widely on both Safeguarding and Equality\, Diversity and Inclusion. Consultancy work includes: reviews/audits/strategic development for schools in the independent sector; supervision and coaching for senior leaders in a wide range of schools; advisory work on EDI for the Independent Schools Council and the Boarding School Association. Coco is currently training as a psychotherapist. \n 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/developing-a-culture-of-belonging-3/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Understanding and supporting ADHD
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £135\n🎧 Inclusion leads\, pastoral leads\, boarding staff\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nCourse outline: \nThis seminar will unpack the realities of ADHD and its commonly co-occurring conditions\, moving beyond labels to explore the underlying traits that influence learning\, behaviour\, and social interaction. By focusing on developmental differences\, delegates will gain practical insight into how best to support children and young people with ADHD in both academic and boarding environments. \nTraining topics will include the neuroscience behind ADHD\, how ADHD presents as a developmental difference\, and an introduction to the SF3R approach: Structure\, Flexibility\, Rapport\, Relationships\, and Resilience. \nLearning outcomes: \n\nA deeper understanding of how children with ADHD experience and respond to the world around them\nGreater awareness of how ADHD affects learning and socialisation\nPractical strategies to inform and enhance support for pupils with ADHD in boarding schools\nFresh ideas and proven frameworks to guide inclusive\, child-centred practice.”\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker:  \nFin O’Regan\, Consultant\, Trainer and Author \nFin is one of the leading behaviour and learning specialists in the UK. He is currently an ADHD and Neurodiversity Consultant and Trainer for a number of schools and organisations\, an Associate Lecturer for Leicester University\, NASEN\, the Helen Arkell Charity and the Institute of Education. \nHe was the Headmaster of the Centre Academy School\, regarded as the first specialist school within the UK for children with ADHD/ODD from 1996 -2002. Prior to that\, he was a Deputy Head Teacher\, the Head of the Science Department and a Science/PE teacher in London\, Newcastle and Washington DC \nHe is a current member of the Special Education Consortium\, the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee\, and The London CDC and is a council member of CReSTeD. \nFin is an internationally acclaimed presenter has presented over 2000 seminars throughout Europe\, the Middle East\, the Far East\, Australia\, New Zealand and North America and has published over 10 books on learning\, behaviour and socialisation issues.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/understanding-and-supporting-adhd/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251126T103000
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SUMMARY:Supporting international boarders in UK boarding schools
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £175 🎧 Boarding staff\, pastoral leads\, inclusion leads📍 Online \n\n\n\nCourse Outline: \nThis seminar explores effective integration of international students\, including the reality and challenges of being an international student in the UK\, culture shock and differences\, and the importance of well-structured induction strategies. Mental health\, alternative medicines\, the role of SEN\, and the importance of links with academic and marketing staff will also be considered. \nDelegates will leave better able to understand the needs of international boarders and a set of tools to help their international boarders. \nLearning outcomes: \n\nHeightened awareness of the daily challenges faced by international students in the UK\nBest practices for induction\, integration\, and ongoing support\nEnhanced confidence in supporting international students and meeting their specific needs.\n\n\n\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeakers: \nLauren Moors \nLauren brings 15 years of educational expertise across diverse independent school settings. Her distinguished career has encompassed senior leadership roles including Deputy Head Academic\, Housemistress\, and Director of Sport\, alongside teaching Business and Economics at prestigious international schools and top-performing institutions in Surrey and London. \nHaving recently transitioned from the classroom\, Lauren now dedicates her practice to empowering individuals as a health and longevity coach. Her approach centers on three fundamental pillars: the individual\, the community\, and the environment. Through this framework\, she cultivates strong\, secure\, and thriving spaces that enable people to develop productive and effective cultures for themselves and those around them.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ \n\nGareth Evans\, Senior Vice Principal (Pastoral) and DSL \nGareth joined DLD College London in August 2016 as Director of Studies before being promoted to Assistant Principal (Upper School) and latterly Senior Vice Principal (Pastoral). He joined us from Strode’s College where he was Head of the Creative Arts Faculty since 2009. \nAside from his role as Assistant Principal\, Gareth currently teaches Film. He has also taught Media A Level and Film Studies GCSE. Gareth is an examiner and moderator for EDUQAS. Beyond these academic commitments\, Gareth is involved in several CCA’s at DLD College including Community Projects\, Run Club and the Film Society. \nIn his free time Gareth is an avid ‘very’ amateur surfer and enjoys spending time on the beach. Gareth is a keen member of the community where he lives and was elected as District Councillor for Loxwood Ward (Chichester) in May 2019 and again in May 2023. He is also an award-winning community volunteer and was awarded a Community Builder Award by the Mayor of Newham which recognised his contribution to the local community he once lived in and continues to support. He has been involved in setting up a history society\, running an oral history project in collaboration with ‘Discovering Stratford Village’\, organising inter-generational disco parties\, running children’s events at the local library and has been a co-presenter of East End Mystery Show on East London Radio. \nGareth recently completed his MEd in Senior Leadership and Management at Buckingham University but also holds a PGCE from Oxford Brooks\, a MA in Human Resource Management from London Metropolitan University and a BA Hons (2:1) in Media and Communication Studies.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/bsa-baisis-supporting-international-boarders-in-uk-boarding-schools-3/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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