Hello from James, Our UK School liaison mananger

At the end of last year we recruited James Graydon-Rhodes as our new UK Schools Liaison Manager to help us develop and nurture our important relationships with our Partner Schools.
James joins Sheena Trist, Carol Gill and Charlotte Hamson in the Marketing and Admissions department; his brief, to learn more about the requirements that you as Schools have in terms of placements and to keep our Schools updated on the latest developments within our expanding guardianship department. 

In order to achieve his goal, James may be keen to pay you a visit in the near future and to feed all the news from his visit back to our Marketing and Admissions department here at head office.
As Bright World's new roving eyes and ears, we hope that James's visits will fully equip for overseas trips. Our current, up to date view and understanding of our Partner School will surely aid us in promoting our Schools to Partner Agents and prospective parents alike.

We hope that you will join us in congratulating James and welcoming him to this new exciting role.

For further information, or if you are interested in learning more about placement and uk guardianship, please get in touch with Sales & Marketing Manager, Charlotte Hamson; email: charlotte@brightworld.co.uk tel: 01273 835745 

Stover Prep School Photography Exhibition a Huge Success

After school on Friday 21st November a large crowd of Stover Prep School pupils, parents and friends gathered in Jubilee Hall to view the photography exhibition held in support of the World Wildlife Fund. With over eighty entries from pupils in Reception to Year 6, the competition for prizes was fierce!  Bright World Partner School were absolutely delighted to welcome Mark Hannaford, award winning wildlife photographer and Fellow of the National Geographic Society and Royal Society of Arts, to judge the entries and present the prizes which had been generously donated by the WWF. Mark brought his beautiful husky dog, Anya, with him to help with proceedings and she was certainly appreciated by the audience, many of whom enjoyed meeting her in person after the prize giving.

Mark began by giving a presentation, showing us some of his amazing photographs taken in exotic locations all around the world. Ishka Thres (Year 4) whose idea it had been to organise this special event in aid of the WWF, also spoke to the audience about his passion for the Snow Leopard and how this had inspired him to want to save this very special animal before numbers drop any lower.

When presenting the prizes in each age group, Mark explained to winners the elements of the photograph that showed particular strength, resulting in their picture being selected. He also commented on the high standard of entries overall.

We should like to thank Ishka for his wonderful idea; all those pupils who entered the competition; everyone who came on the night; the parents who donated cakes for the cake sale and those who kindly served refreshments on the evening. Very special thanks go to Ishka’s mother, Mrs Pearson, for her support and help with the organization of this memorable event.

We are delighted to say that we raised a total of £271.25 for the WWF through competition entries and the cake sale. Hopefully we have also inspired some budding photographers of the future! 

If you would like to apply to join our host families or to find out more about UK guardianship. Please enquire today.

For further information, Or if you are interested in learning more about placement, please get in touch with us via our enquiry form or call 01273 835745.

Armed with Clip Boards & Wellies

Great news from our Bright World partners at Stover School, At the start of this Half Term, the Year 7 pupils from Stover Senior School embarked on their first Geography field trip of the year. Armed with clip boards and wellies they set off to firstly, find out a little about the history of Stover Country Park; secondly, to study the broad leaved, coniferous and heath land ecosystems and lastly, to see what management techniques were being used to control the rhododendron problem!! Lots of vigorous note- taking and field-sketches were produced in order for informative write-ups to begin back in the classroom.

Miss Evans, who accompanied us on the trip, commented on what a pleasure it had been to be in the company of such interested, well-behaved children.

Stover School is a leading independent co-educational day and boarding school for pupils aged 3 – 18. It is set in 64 acres of beautiful and historical grounds in the heart of Devon’s glorious countryside between the foothills of Dartmoor and the South West Coastline.

Founded in 1932 Stover School aims to provide a high quality education in accordance to Christian principles, enabling pupils to acquire the qualifications, confidence and skills needed to achieve their aspirations.

Stover School recently received an overwhelmingly positive inspection report from the Independent Schools Inspectorate, in which, Stover School was deemed to ‘very successfully fulfill its aim of providing a high quality education’.

The school is proud to have been judged as ‘Excellent’ in; teaching, pastoral care, welfare, health and safety, quality of leadership and management and governance.

If you would like to apply to join our host families or to find out more about UK guardianship. Please enquire today.

For further information, Or if you are interested in learning more about placement, please get in touch with us via our enquiry form or call 01273 835745.

Bright World joins ALTO

We are delighted to announce that Bright World are now fully fledged members of ALTO (Association of Language Travel Organisations).

ALTO are an elite global forum for leading industry professionals within the language travel industry and after receiving recommendation, Bright World join this unique network of top-level decision makers within the field. ALTO membership will allow us to access top-level seminars, networking events and industry information.

Bright World Directors Lana and James Foster will make their ALTO debut next year at the Professional Development and Networking Conference in NEW YORK! The Conference promises to give an insight into the future of our industry and will help us make important decisions for Bright World’s future.

We thank ALTO for granting our trusted membership and look forward to joining this great forum for our industry!

For further information, or if you are interested in learning more about placement and uk guardianship, please get in touch with Sales & Marketing Manager, Charlotte Hamson; email: charlotte@brightworld.co.uk tel: 01273 835745 

Bright Word baby shower!

A massive congratulations to Guardianship Care Manager, Tammy Lindsay who will very shortly be giving birth to a baby girl. Here are some pics of our surprise baby shower, held earlier on today to celebrate the baby's pending arrival. 

Tammy is the first of the head office team here at Bright World to have a baby, so we hope you join us in wishing her all the best.!

New logo marks second year of Child-Safe accreditation

Thank you to Child-Safe International for providing us with a new logo to mark our second year of accreditation.

The newly named, TravelSafe assured partnership is one that we are very proud of and we are now aiming to gain silver status this year. The name change reflects the full breadth of youth travel. Child-Safe will remain as the umbrella body whilst TravelSafe will be the educational, training and consultancy arm of Child-Safe. Bright World remains the only guardianship company in the UK to achieve this accreditation after undergoing rigorous inspection of safeguarding processes when recruiting Host Families & Drivers.

Our team of Local Coordinators and Head office staff are fully trained by TravelSafe in Child protection and are there to support, guide and safeguard the guardianship students in their care. 

Read more about our accreditation and our Safeguarding policies and procedures on our website.

A visit to Rossall School

Earlier this month Guardianship Care Manager, Carol Stevenson made the trip up to Rossall School to meet with two of her students, Beasy Bao (far right) & Alex Chuchin (far left.) Carol makes sure that Beasy and Alex have a safe place to stay during the School holidays or transfers to and from the airport should they decide to travel home.

Carol (pictured above, second from the left) was accompanied by Local Coordinator, Liz Trist (above second from the right.) Liz is Bright World Buddy to both students, visiting them throughout the year and making herself available to them by phone and email.

Carol and Liz were given a tour of the school with Beasy and Alex before sharing a lovely lunch with Travel organiser, Gillian Leggett.

“It was great to meet some of my students. Alex was really cheeky and when I asked what he was interested in and what his favourite thing at school was, his reply was free time.” Carol Stevenson, Guardianship Care Manager.

Read more about UK Guardianship on our website or click here to enquire online.