AGBIS/BSA Box Set – Developing Strategy

Name: AGBIS/BSA Box Set – Developing Strategy
Start: 2025-06-05T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-05T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Online – Zoom

5 June 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Date: June 05, 2025
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Cost: BSA/AGBIS Full Member Rate: £135, Non-Member Rate: £270, BSA Full Member Box Set Rate: £850
Audience: School Governors
Platform: Zoom (online) – Seminar

Course outline:

This 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.

The 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.

Training topics will include:

What is strategy?
Identifying and setting your school’s strategy
International strategy
Governance and management
Strategic planning for Governors
External factors.

Learning outcomes

Recommended strategic models to apply to your school
Advice on approaching international strategy
Best practice recommendations for ensuring good governance and strategic partnership with SLT
Increased awareness of the latest external factors to consider when planning school strategy.

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Other titles included:

AGBIS/BSA Box Set &#8211; Developing Strategy

1. Foundations for boarding school Governors – roles, responsibilities and collective governance	September 17, 2024
2. Safeguarding highlights for boarding Governors	October 3, 2024
3. Pastoral care in boarding schools for Governors	November 27, 2025
4. Monitoring and evaluation. Using data to support Governor oversight	January 22, 2025
5. Inclusion and support	February 7, 2025
6. Crisis and serious care management. Expectations on Governors	July 2, 2025

Speaker:

Richard Harman, Chief Executive, AGBIS

Richard Harman was educated at The King’s School, Worcester, followed by Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English. Having spent two years working for an academic publisher, he decided his real vocation was in teaching. After five years at Marlborough College teaching English and Drama, during which time he also completed his PGCE at Exeter University, he spent 12 years at Eastbourne College. Progressing from Head of English to Housemaster of a Sixth Form girls’ house to member of the Senior Management Team, he then became Headmaster of Aldenham in September 2000 and thence to Uppingham in 2006. After a decade leading Uppingham and 32 years overall in teaching, he embarked on a third career as Chief Executive of AGBIS. Richard is much enjoying the challenges at AGBIS, having been Chairman of the Boarding Schools’ Association for 2011-12 and Chairman of HMC for 2014-15.