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SUMMARY:Managing suitability to board
DESCRIPTION:Date: February 04\, 2025\nTime: 10:30 – 12:30\nCost: BSA Full Member – £135\, BSA Affiliate Member – £170\, Non-member – £270\nAudience: Head\, Deputy Head\, Inclusion Lead\, Head of Boarding\, Boarding staff and teaching staff\, Medical staff\, DSL\, School governors\, guardians\nPlatform: Zoom (online) – seminar\n\n\nCourse outline: \nThere are many things a school may need to consider if a student is not ‘fit to board’. This may include the young person’s own safety and wellbeing\, alongside others in a boarding house. Increasingly\, schools have found it useful to write a ‘fit to board’ policy and this course is designed to help them consider if this would be helpful in their context\, and how to create a policy. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nThe reasons why people may not be ‘fit to board’.\nBalancing needs in a boarding house.\nProviding continuity of education and other legal considerations.\nWorking with parents.\nConsiderations when writing policy.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nUnderstand some reasons why a young person might not be fit to board.\nKnow the legal framework around education provision.\nBe guided in producing a school policy on fitness to board.\n\nBOOK NOW
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/managing-suitability-to-board/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
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SUMMARY:AGBIS/BSA Box Set - Developing Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Date: February 04\, 2025\nTime: 14:00 – 16:00\nCost: BSA/AGBIS Full Member Rate: £135\, Non-Member Rate: £270\, BSA Full Member Box Set Rate: £850\nAudience: School Governors\nPlatform: Zoom (online) – Seminar\n\n\nCourse outline: \nThis seminar has been designed to support Governors in their understanding and development of the role\, and in formulating and shaping school strategy. The day will cover articulating strategy\, tools for development\, documents\, planning and aligning with the Senior Team within the school as well as considering an international strategy. Consideration will be given to what the role of Governors should be in strategic planning and how to develop a genuine strategy which is grounded in reality.  \nThe seminar will be delivered by senior staff from both AGBIS and BSA Group\, drawing on extensive experience in supporting members in development\, strategy and the role of Governors. The day will draw on case studies from both associations and delegates will leave with actionable recommendations to take back to their schools.  \nTraining topics will include: \n\nWhat is strategy?\nIdentifying and setting your school’s strategy\nInternational strategy\nGovernance and management\nStrategic planning for Governors\nExternal factors.\n\nLearning outcomes \n\nRecommended strategic models to apply to your school\nAdvice on approaching international strategy\nBest practice recommendations for ensuring good governance and strategic partnership with SLT\nIncreased awareness of the latest external factors to consider when planning school strategy.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nOther titles included: \n\n\n\n1. Foundations for boarding school Governors – roles\, responsibilities and collective governance\nSeptember 17\, 2024\n\n\n2. Safeguarding highlights for boarding Governors\nOctober 3\, 2024\n\n\n3. Pastoral care in boarding schools for Governors\nNovember 27\, 2025\n\n\n4. Monitoring and evaluation. Using data to support Governor oversight\nTBC\n\n\n5. Inclusion and support\nJune 05\, 2025\n\n\n6. Crisis and serious care management. Expectations on Governors\nJuly 2\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: \nStuart Westley \nAfter attending Lancaster Royal Grammar School\, Stuart read Law at Corpus Christi College Oxford\, representing the University at rugby and cricket and achieving a degree. After a brief\, unspectacular spell as a professional cricketer with Gloucestershire County Cricket Club\, he taught mathematics at Framlingham College where he was also Master in Charge of Cricket\, Housemaster and Director of Studies. \nIn 1984 he moved to be Deputy Head\, Bristol Cathedral School\, now an academy but then an independent day school which educated the Cathedral Choristers. In 1989 he became Principal\, King William’s College\, Isle of Man and from 1996 to 2009 was Master of Haileybury. Haileybury became a fully co-educational school in 1998\, having admitted girls to its Sixth Form in 1973. The International Baccalaureate Diploma has been taught alongside A Level at Haileybury since1999. \nIn 2009 Stuart became General Secretary of the Association of Governors of Independent Schools (AGBIS) whose purpose was\, and is\, to provide advice\, support and training for the Governors of its 800 or so member schools. He retired from that post in August 2016 and continues to undertake consultancy work for independent schools in Britain\, some commissioned separately and some on behalf of AGBIS. \nStuart has been a governor of twelve schools. He was recently Chair of Governors of a girls’ all through school and is currently a governor of an academy and of one other independent\, co-educational senior school. \n 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/agbis-bsa-developing-strategy/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
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