Boarding School Life y our bags Pack your pet?
Natalie Milner asks matrons what to pack if your child starts boarding next term
Some schools pride themselves on excellent facilities for your furry friends, and grain stores turn into guinea pig heaven. Others have less room – but don’t count out a goldfish bowl on the windowsill. School pets are the happy medium. Millfield Prep School, Somerset, divides its boarding houses by their cats and dogs – helpful if pupils have allergies – while Queen Ethel- burgas, North York- shire, Hanford, Dorset, and Stonar School, Wiltshire, to name a few, provide stables.
Electronics and mobiles
When mobiles are not allowed, schools offer landlines, banks of mo- biles or suggest Skyping. Cothill House, Oxon, have a “no personal electronics” policy up to age 13. But the Headmaster’s wife at San- droyd School, Wiltshire, finds iPods are therapeutic at bed- time. Overall matrons are wary of too much contact initially: “renewed bouts of homesickness can ensue,” says Head of Boarding, Haberdashers’ Mon- mouth School for Girls, Monmouthshire.
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