Timothy Wyndham-smith
Boarding Housemaster Junior House/ Head of Outdoor Education at LVS Ascot- Claim this Profile
Click to upgrade to our gold package
for the full feature experience.
Topline Score
Bio
Credentials
-
BSA Advanced Certificate in Pastoral Care and Boarding Managment
Boarding Schools' AssociationOct, 2019- Oct, 2024 -
BCU white water saftey endorsment
British CanoeingMay, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
Single pitch award
The British Mountaineering CouncilApr, 2013- Oct, 2024 -
supervisor
The Duke of Edinburgh's AwardApr, 2013- Oct, 2024 -
RYA power boat safety
Royal Yachting Association (RYA)Mar, 2013- Oct, 2024 -
Summer Mountian Leader
The British Mountaineering CouncilJan, 2012- Oct, 2024 -
Level 2 coach BCU
British CanoeingJun, 2006- Oct, 2024 -
Assesor
The Duke of Edinburgh's AwardJul, 2017- Oct, 2024 -
level 2 award outdoor First Aid
FIRST AID AWARDS LIMITEDNov, 2017- Oct, 2024
Experience
-
LVS Ascot
-
United Kingdom
-
Primary and Secondary Education
-
1 - 100 Employee
-
Boarding Housemaster Junior House/ Head of Outdoor Education
-
Sep 2019 - Present
I am Housemaster in a boy’s house from 2019 until present. My role includes helping young people through their first boarding experiences and in living their daily life away from home. The job involves, Planning extra-curricular outings and events, house team building, and organisation of competitions for students. It also involves running the boarding house with aspects such as routines and pastoral support/care for all our students from 22 different nationalities and backgrounds. This role can vary from helping organise rugby club sessions outside of school to simple homely chats when students are finding life hard. It can involve having to deal with issues that may arise from and for both staff and students and being a proactive problem solver to being organised in advance and supporting all personal in their goals and aim. It also involves communication with parents and guardians and ensuring that I work with them to ensure the best outcome for all involved in the process of there education and care.This role also means a large amount of management and communication with the house staff team from tutors to domestic and maintenance staff.
-
-
Head of Outdoor Education and Duke of Edinburgh Award Centre Manager
-
Sep 2017 - Present
I work with children ranging from 4-18 delivering and designing an Outdoor curriculum that suits all needs, including the increasingly popular Duke of Edinburgh programme (which has grown in participation from 200 students to 250 under my leadership).This involves the liaison between the Duke of Edinburgh office and our head teacher as well as the implementation of the schools in house system to train, deliver and support students through the award.It also entails training our staff in house to understand and deliver the support students in the information they require to complete the award.The organisation of expeditions at all 3 levels of the award and the risk assessments trip paperwork and safety systems in place.
-
-
Assistant Boarding HouseMaster Senior House
-
Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
I am Assistant Housemaster in a senior boy’s house from 2017 until present. My role includes helping young people through their first boarding experiences and in living their daily life away from home. The job involves, Planning extra-curricular outings and events, house team building, and organization of competitions for students. It also involves running the boarding house with aspects such as routines and pastoral support/care for all our students from 22 different nationalities and backgrounds. This role can vary from helping organise rugby club sessions outside of school to simple homely chats when students are finding life hard. It can involve having to deal with issues that may arise from and for both staff and students and being a proactive problem solver to being organised in advance and supporting all personal in their goals and aim. This role also means a large amount of management and communication with the house staff team from tutors to domestic and maintenance staff.
-
-
Assistant Head of Outdoor Education and Duke of Edinburgh Award
-
Mar 2015 - Sep 2017
I work with children ranging from 4-18 delivering and designing an Outdoor curriculum that suits all needs, including the increasingly popular Duke of Edinburgh programme (which has grown in participation from 200 students to 250 under my leadership). I also work with the teachers within the curriculum to develop sessions and lessons using outdoor education to help deliver an active relevant learning experience in conjunction with he subject they are learning.
-
-
Assistant Boarding Housemaster junior House
-
Mar 2015 - Jul 2017
Assistant Housemaster in junior boarding house from 2015-july 2017 My role includes helping young people through their first boarding experiences and in living their daily lives away from home. It also involved planning extra-curricular outings and events, house team building, assisting in boarding house routines and pastoral support/care for all our students from 22 different nationalities and backgrounds. This role also means a large amount of management and communication with the house staff team from tutors to domestic and maintenance staff.
-
-
-
Wilderness Expertise
-
Uganda
-
Expedition Leader
-
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Planning and leading a month-long expedition to Uganda in conjunction with the staff and students going. Whilst on expedition it involved managing teachers and pupils whilst ensuring they also lead the trip and learned. This meant teaching about and then letting students organise budgeting, transportation, and project work. My role was to ensure that the safety network and co-ordinating volunteer work at a local school as well as trekking expedition where all run by students but overseen by myself and where safe and within the operating guidelines and supporting students on a life changing experience whilst providing pastoral care and memory they will not forget.
-
-
-
Insight Adventures China
-
China
-
International D of E ManagerSafety & Training Development ManagerProgramme Delivery and Instruction
-
Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
Being a part of a managing team that supported a staff of 80 instructors, co-ordinating and leading staff training, running and supporting expeditions (up to 10-day duration) and ensuring the safe application of health and safety protocols all around china from inner Mongolia to Beijing and Yangshou and may other locations. This role involved making sure staff, equipment and schools where all in the correct locations to make the most of all we had to offer as well as making sure all health and safety protocols and staff training and qualifications where up-to-date. Delivering this training and running the International Duke of Edinburgh award for International schools based in china.
-
-
-
Edmund Park outdoor education
-
Australia
-
Programme Manager & Senior Instructor
-
Jan 2014 - Jul 2014
Leading a team of 12, co-ordinating programmes for schools and corporate events, managing budgets for expeditions and equipment the management of equipment upkeep and inspections, school liaison with staff before during and after expeditions to ensure they receive the product they desired and the delivering of expeditions and programmes to school groups across Australia whilst ensuring the best care and experience is delivered. Leading a team of 12, co-ordinating programmes for schools and corporate events, managing budgets for expeditions and equipment the management of equipment upkeep and inspections, school liaison with staff before during and after expeditions to ensure they receive the product they desired and the delivering of expeditions and programmes to school groups across Australia whilst ensuring the best care and experience is delivered.
-
-
-
-
Outdoor activites Instructor
-
Jan 2013 - Dec 2013
Delivery and assessment of the Duke of Edinburgh award and expedition work. As well as delivering team building, taster sessions and qualification courses on a daily basis from raft building to kayaking and hiking to climbing sessions both on site and across off site. Delivery and assessment of the Duke of Edinburgh award and expedition work. As well as delivering team building, taster sessions and qualification courses on a daily basis from raft building to kayaking and hiking to climbing sessions both on site and across off site.
-
-
-
Murray river canoe and kayak
-
Australia
-
Manager Murray river Canoe and kayaks
-
Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
Set up in conjunction with a silent partner the company from scratch. My job involved the marketing of the company as well as resourcing of equipment and the setup of journeys and sessions and meant being involved in the set up and management side of this as well as actually delivering the sessions and guiding for the canoe hire and expedition company in Australia. Set up in conjunction with a silent partner the company from scratch. My job involved the marketing of the company as well as resourcing of equipment and the setup of journeys and sessions and meant being involved in the set up and management side of this as well as actually delivering the sessions and guiding for the canoe hire and expedition company in Australia.
-
-
-
The Bushcraft Company
-
United Kingdom
-
Camp leader
-
Jan 2010 - Dec 2012
The role involved bushcraft camps for groups of students varying from 1 day to 10 days in various locations all over the U.K. this involved organising and making sure that instructors on camp knew what was happening and what sessions needed to be delivered that the cooks had everything they needed and that the supply chain that is needed to keep these remote camps running is clearly communicated with. The role also involved ensuring all protocols and systems in place for the safety of all where adhered to, as well as running sessions myself. It also involved set up and pack down of each effectively and safely. The environment we operated in would vary from the mountains of Wales to ancient woodlands in Oxfordshire to the sandiness of the south coast
-
-
-
Longridge Activity Centre
-
Marlow
-
Activity Instructor
-
Mar 2007 - Nov 2010
Delivering a variety of activates from climbing to BCU courses to Team building, Dragon boating, Raft building and powerboat trips as well as specific Berkshire fire department water safety and rescue training courses. The job involved making sure that groups where liaised with as to the outcomes they wanted from the sessions and ensuring this was delivered safely and in a fun supportive environment. It also involved the set up and pack down of the site each day as well as the maintenance of the site in time not filled by sessions.
-
-
-
Sedbergh school Canada
-
Canada
-
Residential tutor and teacher of outdoor education
-
Jan 2006 - Jul 2006
working in a boarding school environment helping in the boarding house on duties caring for the students pastoral well being I also helped to deliver there outdoor education programme with remote canoe expeditions to practical lesson in the classroom about the systems tools and skills they would need. I also coached the school 1stXVrugby team. working in a boarding school environment helping in the boarding house on duties caring for the students pastoral well being I also helped to deliver there outdoor education programme with remote canoe expeditions to practical lesson in the classroom about the systems tools and skills they would need. I also coached the school 1stXVrugby team.
-
-
Education
-
2005 - 2007
Bicton College
Certificate in outdoor education and leadership, Outdoor Education -
2000 - 2005
Egerton-Rothersay School
GCSEs, School
Community
