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International transition: preparing future students for their next major transition

  • Date: May 22, 2025
  • Time: 12:30 – 13:30
  • Cost: BAISIS member – £55, BSA member – £75, Member additional attendee – £25, Non-member – £110
  • Audience: Pastoral/boarding staff, Deputy Head Pastoral, International Student Coordinator, SLT/SMT
  • Platform: Zoom (online)

Course Outline:

This webinar is designed to empower practitioners with the tools and insights needed to facilitate smooth transitions for international students, especially the transition to joining your school. By the end of the webinar, participants will be equipped with recommended strategies to enhance and improve support for new arrivals around their transition to your school and into their new learning stage.

Training topics will include:

This webinar is designed to empower practitioners with the tools and insights needed to facilitate smooth transitions for international students, especially the transition to joining your school. By the end of the webinar, participants will be equipped with recommended strategies to enhance and improve support for new arrivals around their transition to your school and into their new learning stage.

Learning outcomes:

  • Understanding the unique challenges and emotions associated with major transitions, especially for international students
  • Suggestions to equip and empower students in their transition
  • Recommendations to staff to support a successful transition into your school.

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Speaker:

Gabriela Santacruz, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, The Mill Hill School 

Gabriela Santacruz is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist trained in the UK, with 20 years of experience working with young people’s mental health. Her experience in the NHS, voluntary sector and schools has led her to work with a wide range of populations and complexities.

Currently she works at Mill Hill School and Mill Hill International to pursue her passion for supporting adolescents with highly mobile lives and their transitions; offering individual psychotherapy to pupils, as well as supporting parents/guardians.

Having lived and moved schools many times whilst growing up, Gabriela understands first-hand the need for good care during school transitions and international relocation.