BSA – Prep Boarding Conference
December 3 @ 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
- Date: December 03, 2024
- Time: 09:00 – 16:30
- Cost: BSA Full Member – £110, BSA Affiliate Member – £140, Non-member – £165
- Audience: Head, Deputy Head, Bursar, Registrar, Head of Boarding, Marketing, Admissions, Medical, Head of EAL, DoS, Pastoral staff.
- Venue: Wellington College Prep, Sandhurst, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Our brand new conference brings together prep school professionals to share and debate current prep boarding issues.
Sessions will include:
- Safeguarding guidance updates
- Case study: Staff supervision initiative at Wellington College Prep
- Results from the latest boarding sector survey
- Youth leadership
- Anxiety
- Tech management
The conference is suitable for anyone in a boarding role, and we expect a mix of school leaders and other boarding practitioners.
Speakers:
Lauren Fisher, Head of Boarding, Wellington College Prep
Jess Goves, Deputy Head Safeguarding (DSL), Wellington College Prep
David Walker, Executive Director, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB
David is the BSA Director and joined the BSA group in August 2023. He has over 20 years’ experience in boarding schools and has worked in a range of schools in the UK and Africa, alongside being a prep school governor and a trustee of a MAT. Before taking up his post at the BSA, David was Deputy Head Pastoral at a large co-ed independent school in the South-East.
Dale Wilkins, Executive Director, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance
Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter and has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit, which he first produced in 2002, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding.
For 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board.
Ed Venables, Head, Wellington College Prep
After studying Classics at Oxford university and a 12-year career in the investment banking and private equity world in the City, Ed returned to his old school, Wellington College, to teach Economics and Business. His time at Wellington saw him being Head of the Economics department, Housemaster of his former boarding house for six years and, finally, Director of Admissions and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. In September 2023 Ed moved to become Head of Eagle House School, Wellington’s 3-13 prep school. Ed remains on the Wellington ELT.
Ed is married and has three sons. Away from school, he lives in Anglesey, North Wales, and loves getting there in the holidays for lots of walking, running and time in and on the sea!
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