Improving induction for staff and students

25 June 2025 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Date: June 25, 2025
Time: 10:30 – 15:30
Cost: BSA Full Member – £175, BSA Affiliate Member – £250, Non-member – £350
Audience: Deputy Head (Pastoral), Head of Boarding, all boarding and pastoral staff
Platform: Zoom (online) – Day Seminar

Course outline

This seminar will address the importance of a good and rigorous induction for both students, and staff. We pride ourselves on having strong communities within our schools but this means we need to be considerate and conscientious in welcoming and inducting people. Suggestions and ideas will be shared to encourage delegates to review the induction processes for both new staff and new students.

Training topics will include:

The benefits of a strong induction programme
Induction for new staff to the boarding community/house
Induction for new boarders to the boarding community/house
The wider school induction.

Learning outcomes:

An increased understanding of the importance of a successful induction for both students and staff
Tips and recommendations on what to include in your induction process for students
Tips and recommendations on what to include in your induction process for staff.

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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.