Supporting senior boarders

Name: Supporting senior boarders
Start: 2025-05-16T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-05-16T15:30:00+01:00
Location: Virtual – Zoom

16 May 2025 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Date: May 16, 2025
Time: 10:30 – 15:30
Cost: BSA Full Member – £175, BSA Affiliate Member – £ 250, Non-member – £350
Audience: Boarding staff, Head of Boarding, Deputy Head, mental health leads working with senior boarders (16+)
Platform: Zoom (online) – seminar

Course outline:

This day seminar will highlight the common issues that older teenagers face and look at how to support them as they progress towards leaving school. Managing the increase in choices that boarders will have to make as they approach the significant transition towards life after school, they may find themselves under increasing pressure and in need of support from those around them. This course is designed to help boarding staff to grow in confidence in their role and promote the knowledge and skills required to meet the needs of senior boarders.

Older teenagers face an increasingly diverse set of pressures and many of them need additional support in coping with them. Certainly, they need to feel that they are in a safe environment where they can discuss the concerns that they have and build their resilience and independence. Boarding staff have a role in helping young people to make good choices around the risks they face and, therefore, they need to have an understanding of the issues that teenagers may encounter.

Training topics will include:

Common issues for the older teen – academic/professional (parental and peer pressure, success, managing transition to adulthood, preparing for life after school)
Common issues for the older teen – personal/social (relationships, social media and online safety, drugs/alcohol, vaping, risk taking and dangerous behaviours)
Supporting teenagers – promoting resilience, self-worth and making good choices
Case studies and group discussion.

Learning outcomes: