Boarding box set – boarding house management

• Date: June 27, 2025
• Time: 12:00 – 13:00
• Cost: BSA Member Rate: £90, BSA Additional Full Member Rate: £45, BSA Affiliate Member Rate – £120, BSA Additional Affiliate Member Rate: £45, Non-member Rate: £180*
• Audience: Deputy Head Pastoral, Head of Boarding, Senior Boarding Practitioners.
• Platform: Zoom (online) Webinar

Course outline:

BSA’s Boarding box set series is designed for boarding staff and school leaders giving them a broad overview series of a range of key topics relating to boarding. This series would be ideal for staff moving into senior positions in boarding, preparing for Deputy Headship and consolidating their understanding on the wider sector ‘headlines’. 

This set will be £650 for a member series place. 

Managing a boarding house is a complex and sometimes difficult path to follow. This webinar will explore some guiding principles for boarding staff and address issues that arise in terms of managing the 4 Ps, People, Policies, Procedures and Premises, that form the backbone to a happy and content boarding house. 

Training topics will include: 

• Leadership styles and team dynamics 
• Working with school policies and procedures with the sometimes grey areas of managing a house and boarders 
• Ways to manage the school’s and parent’s expectations of a ‘Home from Home’ mindset, in a boarding environment that has a much larger and diverse population living within the walls of the house. 

Learning outcomes:  

• An appreciation of the flexibility required for Leading and managing a boarding house 
• Balancing the overall vision of the school with the complex needs of a boarding house day to day. 
• Managing expectations of the various stakeholders involved in a boarding house.

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Speaker:

Mark Robinson, BSA Senior Consultant

Mark has a Product Design Degree from Brunel University and a PGCE. His first post in independent education was as Assistant Master at Christ’s Hospital in Horsham where he held several positions including Assistant Housemaster to a junior boy’s boarding house. After five years he moved on to Ardingly College in West Sussex as a Head of Department and Housemaster to a joint day and boarding house. Mark has been an inspector on boarding inspections, an Assistant Housemaster to a girls’ boarding house and fully involved in teaching up to ‘A‘ Level.

In 2002 Mark gave up teaching to set up Mentor Education Services Ltd, a business offering education-related consultancy services to the independent sector, initially training, interview coaching and professional development but also marketing and pre-inspection to schools both in the independent and maintained sector.

Mark was appointed as Assistant Director of Training for the Boarding Schools’ Association in 2010, where he continued offering training and consultancy to independent and state schools both in the UK and around the world. In 2017 he was appointed as Deputy Head Pastoral at Collège du Léman in Switzerland, a large international boarding and day school. After gaining some further, valuable international experience, Mark returned to the UK to continue his training and consultancy in the Independent and state school sectors.