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TIOB – Coaching your house prefect team
- Date: June 12, 2023
- Time: 09:30 – 10:30
- Cost: TIOB Member Rate – £60, Non-member Rate – £120
- Audience: House parents, Heads of Boarding, Deputy Head pastoral
- Platform: Zoom (online) – Webinar
Developing a successful prefect team that underpins the values and ethos of the boarding house is the aim of every houseparent. This webinar looks at how successful coaching rather than teaching develops a confident, self-aware team of prefects who respond to the challenges and responsibility of their roles.
Learning Outcomes:
- Create a programme of personal development for young people in your care
- Develop a process of coaching a pupil to be an effective prefect rather than dictating how they should do it
- Evaluate your current programme and identify the steps required to embed greater success
Delegates will leave the session having carefully evaluated the current practice in their house and how it could be enhanced by a coaching approach.
Speakers:
Tom Hicks, Principal Deputy Head (Pastoral & Wellbeing), Harrow International School, Hong Kong
Tom Hicks is Principal Deputy Head (Pastoral and Wellbeing) at Harrow International School, Hong Kong. He previously worked as Assistant Head at Uppingham School in Rutland, as a boarding housemaster and Head of Group Boarding at Wellington College, UK and Head of Sixth Form at Lord Wandsworth College.
Tom’s expertise is in boarding, safeguarding, coaching, positive psychology and restorative practices. He ran an international Prep Schools’ boarding conference, has spoken at the BSA Housemaster and Housemistress’s Conference and tutors on the BSA Diploma programme. An Oxford graduate, Tom is also an English teacher.
Tom played first-class cricket for Oxford University and British Universities, winning four Blues. He was the last ever first-class captain in a Varsity Match at Lord’s and went on to captain Dorset CCC during an eighteen-year career with the county and has written about his experiences in his book – ‘Bowler’s Name? – The life of a cricketing also-ran’.
Richard Hegarty, Housemaster, Uppingham School
Richard has been at Uppingham since 2004 and spent nearly ten years as resident tutor in Fircroft. He teaches Philosophy and Religious Studies and was head of department before taking up his role as housemaster. Richard is an enthusiastic sports coach in rugby, hockey and cricket. In 2014-16 he ran the Oxbridge programme.
Prior to Uppingham, Richard was educated at St Edward’s, Oxford and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read Theology and represented the university at rugby. He returned to St Edward’s for a year as part of its graduate programme, before joining Uppingham.