BSA – Strategic leadership: Moving your house up to the next level

Name: BSA – Strategic leadership: Moving your house up to the next level
Start: 2023-02-08T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-02-08T12:00:00+00:00
Location: Virtual – Zoom

Wednesday 8 February, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Date: February 08, 2023
Time: 10:00 – 12:00
Cost: Full Member – £100, Affiliate Member – £150, Non-member – £200
Audience: Assistant Houseparents / House Parents / Anyone who is going to manage a team for the first time. Suitable for boarding schools across the world. Both Prep and Senior boarding.
Platform: Zoom (online)

Course outline

Boarding schools are regulated through a series of National Minimum Standards presented in various forms depending on what part of the UK (and the world) that you find yourself. However these are ‘Minimum’ standards and for schools to compete in today’s world, boarding provision has to far exceed the National Minimum Standards required.

This seminar will look at ways that House staff can take their current boarding provision, evaluate it effectively and look at ways to improve it significantly within realistic limits with regards to resources, staffing and costs.

Training topics will include:

Conducting a SWOT analysis of current provision
Managing change with regards to the resources available, the team that you work with and the stakeholders you are responsible for.
Ideas and ways to implement positive change on a cost effective basis.

Learning outcomes:

Delegates will have the opportunity to listen to and share ideas through case studies and group discussions
Delegates will leave the seminar with a higher level of confidence and understanding of the role ahead of them.

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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.