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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:BSA & BAISIS - Supporting international boarders in UK boarding schools
DESCRIPTION:Date: February 07\, 2025\nTime: 10:30 – 15:30\nCost: BAISIS member – £175\, BSA Affiliate Member – £250\, Non-member – £350\nAudience: Boarding staff\, Heads of Boarding\, Deputy Head (Pastoral)\nPlatform: Zoom (online)\n\n\nCourse Outline: \nThis seminar will consider ways of integrating students into the boarding and academic community and discuss the values and issues of adopting a fully international approach. \nThe course will also look at the importance of links\, not only between boarding and academic staff\, but also with the marketing team. Recent issues highlighted nationally\, such as mental health\, alternative medicines and the role of SEN\, will also be considered. Delegates will be able to better understand the needs of international boarders and help schools to develop their provision and support to best effect. Delegates will leave with a set of tools to help their international boarders. This will be based on an improved understanding of what it feels like to be an international student thousands of miles from home. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nPresent ‘issues’ (and their solutions) and best practice recommendations around supporting international boarders\nConsidering what it means to be an international student in the UK\, including interactive challenges to experience some of the obstacles international students face\nCulture shock\, cultural differences and exploring ways to embrace a rich mixture of cultures and traditions\nInduction and integration\nWhy international boarders can benefit the whole school population.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nIncreased awareness and understanding of what it means to be an international student in the UK\, and the challenges they could face daily\nBest practice recommendations for induction\, integration and providing ongoing support\nIncreased confidence in understanding and supporting international students in boarding and addressing their specific needs.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeakers: \nLauren Moors \nThroughout her career\, Lauren has held a number of roles ranging from Housemistress\, Director of Sport and Strategy Ambassador\, before switching over to become Assistant Principal (Academic) at DLD College\, London. Here\, she specialises in culturally mapping the environment and student wellbeing to make a cohesive\, impactful education for all the students and wider community. \nAside from her role as Assistant Principal\, Lauren is a Mental Health First Aid Instructor and teaches Business and Economics. Away from academic commitments\, Lauren is a keen advocate of DLD’s ‘Crypto-Club’\, using her previous business experience to encourage young entrepreneurs for the future. \nAway from DLD\, Lauren separates her time between writing and health hacking. She currently writes for several local businesses\, producing copy for technology\, candles or reflexology firms. If she isn’t cycling in the Surrey hills\, then she is open water swimming down on Branksome Beach. A self-confessed health addict\, at the weekends Lauren can be found on the golf course\, tennis court\, enjoying cryotherapy\, or scouting the latest health technology gadget. She is also a Governor for Greenfield School\, Woking and has worked with several hockey clubs in the local area to produce some of our current national players. \nGareth Evans \nGareth joined DLD College London in August 2016 as Director of Studies before being promoted to Assistant Principal (Upper School) and latterly 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/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
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