BSA training – The three Rs of boarding – roles, ratios and rotas: practical tips for getting these right for your school

• Date: May 22, 2023
• Time: 13:00 – 15:00
• Cost: Full member – £100, Affiliate member – £150, Non-member – £200
• Audience: Head/Principal, Deputy Head/Vice-Principal, Head of Boarding, Senior Boarding Practitioners
• Platform: Zoom (online)

This course focuses on three of the key components for the successful management of boarding. It looks at the variety of roles within a boarding school and boarding house, from Director of Boarding to house support staff, and how this works in different types of boarding school. It will then consider the practical and legal requirements of staff/student ratios and the importance of creating clear rotas to ensure appropriate staff cover for boarding at all times.

Training topics will include:

• Boarding roles and job descriptions
• Staff planning and regulations
• Staff cover and house supervision.

Learning outcomes:

• A clear understanding of different roles and functions in boarding, legal requirements for staff/boarder ratios and how to organise staff rotas.

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Speakers: 

Dale Wilkins, Senior Director, BSA and BSA Group
Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards. 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.

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 and has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding since 2002. Dale had previously been a BSA course tutor since 1998 and developed the BSA Self-Assessment Toolkit, which was updated in 2022.

Andrew Lewin, BSA Senior Consultant 
Andrew Lewin was International Director at the BSA before moving into a consultant role. His broad remit offers a range of services to boarding schools worldwide. He has considerable experience working with boarding school staff all around the world. Andrew has lived and worked in boarding schools all his life. He has been the Head in three boarding schools, as well as Deputy Head, Housemaster, Head of Geography, Master i/c Rugby, Hockey and Cricket, Appeal Director and Director of Development, as well as having been a Governor, an ISI Team Inspector and a member of IAPS Committees and two Local Safeguarding Children Boards.

Andrew has set up his own company, Project 1000 Ltd, and focuses on building resilience and wellbeing in individuals, teams and organisation. He is a WRAW Master Practitioner, trained by the Wellbeing Project, and offers life coaching, diagnostic assessments, workshops and seminars. He is also Education Development Director for Performance Learning, an EdTech Company that provides early identification and support for young people, parents and teachers/tutors to understand self-regulation and meta-cognition, focusing on ‘how we learn’.