Page 10 - Group Leader Handbook

Living on Campus

Living alongside students
● Group Leaders are accommodated in the same
accom-modation buildings as students and staff,
which means that you have to behave
professionally at all times.
● For instance, while group leaders don’t share
bedrooms with students, you may be in the next
bedroom to one, so you won’t be able to play loud
music after lights out.
● Importantly, you must remember that you are
always visible (or audible) to students, so you must
be careful to maintain your own privacy.

● Contact with students also leads to Safeguarding Smoking & Vaping Group Leaders and Alcohol
issues – please read the Safeguarding Policy
carefully. ● It is illegal in the UK for ● Group Leaders must always
anyone under the age of 18 to remember that they are
Facilities
buy cigarettes or Vapes. working on a residential
● The majority of our summer schools are based in campus with minors and that
● Group Leaders are not to buy
well equipped English private schools which have they have a responsibility to
cigarettes for their
good facilities including theatres, common rooms, students nor should they been ensure that they retain a high
sports facilities, and some also have swimming seen smoking with them degree of professionalism at
pools. all times.
outside of the centres.
● The school provides us facilities, catering and ● Our centres fre ● Group Leaders may not drink

services, so their staff are still on-site throughout there will be a designated alcohol or be under the in-
our let. Please treat them with respect throughout fluence of alcohol while on
smoking area which the
your stay. duty.
Centre Management team will
● Facilities have to be booked in advance, and show you. Please always go ● Their professional
students cannot use the facilities unsupervised, but here for a cigarette. performance cannot be
we make extensive use of the facilities in our ● Smoking/vaping indoors is allowed to suffer due to
activity programmes. alcohol consumption.
completely prohibited as a
Internet, Computers and Wifi serious fire risk and the host Group Leaders must not:
venue will ask us to expel
● All schools have WIFI for Group Leaders and  Keep alcohol or drink in their
anyone even suspected of
students to use and passwords will be distributed at rooms
smoking indoors.
induction.
Alcohol  Be seen by students with alco-
● Security settings on school WIFI and computers are hol in their possession
very strict and the venue has the right to stop users ● Because of venue rules, no  Be seen drinking or under the
using their internet if they breach these rules. The alcohol is allowed onsite at all,
following sites/activities are prohibited: whether for group leaders, influence of alcohol by stu-
staff or students. dents
 Gambling websites  Supply alcohol to any student,
● If alcohol is found in a
 Adult websites bedroom the venue has the whether or not they are of
right to ask Churchill House to legal drinking age in their
 File sharing/illegal downloading/streaming
expel the person immediately home country
Catering and we would have no choice Drugs
but to do so.
● If you or any member of your group have any die- Use or possession of any illegal
tary requirements please tell the Centre Manager ● If you find that a student has drugs by staff, Group Leaders or
upon arrival alcohol in their possession students will not be tolerated.
● For the first meal, please accompany the student to please confiscate it or report it Should anyone be found pos-
the dining hall and introduce them to the catering to the Centre Manager sessing or attempting to buy drugs
staff. This way the staff can help the student with immediately. will be subject to our disciplinary
their meals and or give them a meal specially made Students and Alcohol procedure and the police will be
for them. involved.
● It is your duty to help supervision of your students ● Any students found to be in
at all meal times. possession of or to have been
drinking alcohol will be
disciplined andpossibly 10
expelled.