Agenda
Day 1November 30, 2022
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Chair’s Opening Address
Speakers
Lord Lucas
Editor in Chief
The Good Schools Guide
Confirmed
9:20 am - 9:50 am
Opening Keynote – Celebrating Success
- Using the strengths of the sector to face the challenges of the present environment
- What makes schools unique, makes schools competitive
- Building on the excellent foundations to face adversity
Speakers
Julie Robinson
Chief Executive Officer
Independent Schools Council (ISC )
Confirmed
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Unlocking The Power of Digital Literacy
- The power of integrating digital literacy across all subjects
- Supporting mobile learning though technology
- The benefits of digital literacy for teacher assessment
Session hosted by Bedrock Learning
10:10 am - 10:30 am
Keynote from Andrew Lewer MBE MP
- The work of the APPG Independent Education Review: Supporting a broad state school curriculum
- How independent schools can support a broad and balanced state school curriculum
- Are there opportunities for independent schools to support the development of resilience, confidence, and other social skills through partnerships?
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Session reserved for our Gold Sponsor
10:50 am - 11:20 am
Exhibition and Networking
11:20 am - 12:00 am
Overcoming Challenges to the Sector
- What are schools doing to build resilience for their setting in terms of organisational learning? Can this be used to strengthen your setting and the sector?
- How to tackle the big issues from teachers’ pensions, to the changing political environment
- The importance of having a clear understanding of your settings strengths and weaknesses and using this to develop your school
- Supporting pupil and staff wellbeing in uncertain times, particularly considering the exams sat in the summer
Chair
Lord Lucas
Editor in Chief
The Good Schools Guide
Confirmed
Speakers
David Woodgate
Chief Executive Officer
Independent Schools Bursars Association
Confirmed
Sarah Bellotti
Chair
The British Association of Independent Schools with International Students’ (BAISIS)
Confirmed
Dr Simon Hyde
Chief Executive Officer
Headmasters' & Headmistresses' Conference (HMC)
Confirmed
Irfan Latif
Principal
DLD College London
Confirmed
12:00 am - 12:30 pm
The 2023 Framework
- The contents of the new inspection framework
- Implications the new framework will have on practice
- The relationship between internal and external quality assurance
Chair
Lord Lucas
Editor in Chief
The Good Schools Guide
Confirmed
Speakers
Vanessa Ward
Chief Executive-Chief Inspector
Independent Schools Inspectorate
Confirmed
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Safeguarding Practice – Learning the Lessons from Case Reviews
- Exploring the key themes from recent case practice reviews
- Comparing current themes with historic case reviews
- Understanding the implications for safeguarding practice in schools
- Why organisational culture is so critical in being able to address these challenges
Session hosted by the Safeguarding Company.
This session will take place in the Moore Room.
Speakers
Mike Glanville
Chief Safeguarding Officer
The Safeguarding Company
Confirmed
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
E-Energy
This session will take place in the Abbey Room.
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Session Available For Sponsorship
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Cubbie
This session will take place in the Wordsworth Room.
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
World Challenge Expeditions Limited
This session will take place in the Wesley Room.
1:00 am - 2:00 pm
Lunch, Exhibition and Networking
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm
Securly Inc
This session will take place in the Moore Room.
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm
Session Available For Sponsorship
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm
Session Available For Sponsorship
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Smart Pensions
This session will take place in the Wordsworth Room.
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm
Rightmove
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Exhibition and Networking
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Session reserved for our Silver Sponsor
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Let The Questions Be the Curriculum: Curriculum Design and School Culture
- Rethinking school curricula to reflect your school culture, diversity and values
- Tackling unconscious bias in your curricular
- Fostering a love of learning through pupil directed learning, agreed co-constructed curricular and creative approaches for teaching soft skills such as extra-curricular activities
- Parallel curriculum groups and uniting learning across the school
Speakers
Will Goldsmith
Headmaster
Bedales Schools
Confirmed
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Digital Safeguarding in a Digital World
- Using data to support safeguarding practices
- Understanding the changing challenges in safeguarding
- Digital safeguarding in a digital world
- Keeping pupils safe and sexual harassment
Speakers
Luke Ramsden
Senior Deputy Head
St Benedict's School
Confirmed
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Case Study: Losing Charitable Status
- What the situation is in Scotland
- What is the likely prognosis – will we inevitably lose charitable status itself?
- What does that mean and are there ways around it? (incorporating in England has been suggested!)
- What would an ex-charitable sector look like? Should we embrace it? Are there opportunities as well as threats?
Speakers
Melvyn Roffe
Principal
George Watson’s College
Confirmed
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Custodians and Stewardship: Managing School Estates
- Investing in your buildings now, for the future. How will future-proofing buildings now pay dividends later
- Identifying how to invest in school infrastructure which will support diversifying revenue streams
- Making buildings sustainable with the aim of improving energy efficiency
Speakers
Tom Rogerson
Headmaster
Cottesmore School
Confirmed
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Admissions and a Changing Landscape
- Maintaining international pupil recruitment in the face of international political crisis
- Managing the expectations of new parents, from both the international and local markets
- Using international pupil fees to support local bursaries
- Sustaining admissions in challenging times
Speakers
Tammy Parks
Associate Director of University Admissions and Outreach
A List Education
Confirmed
Dr Samina Khan
Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach
Oxford University
Invited
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Taking Your School Global: Overseas Campuses, Can Independent Schools Afford to Miss Out?
- With expenditure on education across the globe rising, which developing markets are most suitable for expansion or establishment of Independent Schools?
- How to go about forming partnerships with overseas schools or establishing a campus abroad?
- What are the benefits to your school through overseas partnerships and schools?
- Building cultural capital within your school through overseas partnerships
Speakers
Pam Mundy
Director
Pam Mundy Associates
Confirmed
John Todd
Director of Education
Huntington Education Group
Confirmed
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Crisis Partnerships- How Can Independent Schools Support Schools Abroad in Times of Crisis?
Fireside Chat
- How can independent Schools in the United Kingdom support schools in crisis zones or areas experiencing disasters or catastrophes?
- What role can UK independent schools take in supporting humanitarian or natural disasters?
- Do independent schools have a moral obligation to support disaster relief?
- Would schools (both here and overseas) benefit from formalised contingency plans in the event of an unforeseen crisis?
Speakers
Colin Bell
Chief Executive Officer
The Council of British International Schools (COBIS)
Confirmed
Emma McKendrick
Headmistress
Downe House School
Confirmed
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Star Academies and Eton College: What We Know Now and How This Can Support Your Partnerships
- What role can the Independent Sector play in the Government’s 2030 Trust agenda?
- Using the lessons from Star Academies, how can independent schools work in closer collaboration with the Maintained Sector?
- How can smaller settings cement, develop and strengthen existing partnerships to bring greater value to partnerships?
Speakers
Tom Arbuthnott
Deputy Head (Partnerships) & Co-Founder
Eton College & Schools Together Group
Confirmed
Stephen Edwards
Director of Partnerships
Star Academies
Confirmed
Sue Riley
Chief Executive Officer
School Partnership Alliance
Confirmed
4:30 am - 6:00 pm
Going Green to Support Pupil Wellbeing
- What are the meaningful actions schools can take to become more sustainable?
- How can student voice be heard in school policy when seeking to be more environmentally friendly?
- Allowing pupils to champion causes important for them as a way of approaching ‘eco- anxiety’
16:30 – 16:45
- Introductions and context of sustainability and eco-anxiety. A brief overview of case studies.
16:45 – 17:00
- Choice of 5 elevator pitches. Case study discussion for about 5 minutes before Q&A with attendees
17:00 – 17:15
- A repeat of 5 case study pitches. 5-minute presentation followed by Q&A
17:15 – 17:30
- A final repeat of 5 case study pitches
17:30 – 17:35
- Closing of session and day. Welcome to continue drinks and networking until 6pm.
Chair
Lord Lucas
Editor in Chief
The Good Schools Guide
Confirmed
Speakers
James Firth
Foundation Environmental Impact Coordinator
University College School
Confirmed
Jane Prescott
Headmistress
Portsmouth High School
Confirmed
Jackie Smith
Consulting Project Director
Futures Institute at Dollar Academy
Confirmed
Carol Chandler-Thompson
Headteacher
Blackheath High School
Invited