Jack Reynolds

Co-Founder and Chief Executive, Football Beyond Borders

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Jack Reynolds is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Football Beyond Borders, a charity which specialises in supporting vulnerable adolescents to thrive in mainstream school. FBB delivered its first FBB Schools programme in 2014 and is now working with 1,500 students on 95 programmes at schools across Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, Liverpool, the West Midlands and London. He has spent the past decade as a counsellor, youth worker and social entrepreneur asking what needs to change so that our most vulnerable young people can succeed in school. 

Session Details

Supporting our Vulnerable Students to Thrive in Mainstream School

A 10-point guide on what every mainstream school can do to ensure their most vulnerable students are thriving from the national specialists in this area. Grounded in case studies and easily adaptable resources, the session will draw on FBB's decade of specialist experience of supporting vulnerable students at 100s of schools across London, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands. We will share a decade of practice and research on how to support vulnerable young people to succeed in school, both in terms of learnings from our programme and from examples of best practice we have seen at our partner schools across the country. Specific themes discussed will be Early Assessment, Teacher Wellbeing, Trauma-Informed Practice, Relationships for Learning and the Cultural Competency of the staff team.