The new boarding experience


PERSPECTIVES FROM SCHOOLS


The modern boarding school could not be more different from the traditional image of draughty dormitories and muddy hockey fields, as some of the country’s leading boarding schools explain.


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rom up-to-the-minute classroom technology and supportive pastoral care in attractive boarding houses to the tailored arrangements of modern flexi-boarding,


parents looking for a residential school for their child now have the opportunity to take advantage of a thoroughly 21st- century educational experience.


MODERN BOARDING “Today’s boarding is about attaining academic excellence


and building confidence, leadership skills and independence, as well as gaining a sense of community and cultural understanding. Far from sending their child away, parents choose a boarding school because they believe in making a selfless decision to allow their child to realise their true potential.


“The open-door policy of modern boarding, coupled with excellent communication between school and home, means that parents are continuously in touch with progress and can regularly pop in to school for matches, concerts and plays.


“Every boarding school prides itself on the ability to


nurture each individual child to enable them to accomplish the highest academic achievement, but boarding schools are about so much more than just academic study. They are about developing knowledgeable, independent, confident youngsters who leave school with the skills to succeed in their chosen further-education option or career.


“Sports, music, drama, art, design and technology, debating, the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, Young Enterprise, and community service are just a few of the many extracurricular options.” Catherine Stoker, The Independent Education Consultants


“d’Overbroeck’s has always been about space; space to


have your own ideas, space to be yourself, space to be curious. And with our brand new sixth form teaching facilities in North Oxford, we have an outstanding environment in which students can learn: the latest lab facilities, performance hall, art studios and classrooms that invite students to get up and write on the interactive whiteboards or even the glass walls of the science rooms!


“It is an inspiring place; a modern learning environment reflecting our passion for learning.


“Our boarders also have a brand new boarding house just opposite which is designed to be a light and airy space, a place that makes people want to come and study with us!” Andrew Gillespie, director of studies, d’Overbroeck’s, Oxford (co-educational independent school for students aged 11–18)


“In order to make the best use of technology in the classroom, every pupil at Kent College is issued with a MacBook laptop and is able to access the school’s excellent (and monitored) wi-fi. The school believes that this policy helps to prepare pupils for life and work in the 21st century. Not surprisingly, it is hugely popular with pupils. “The GREAT programme (Gifted Really Enthusiastic


Able and Talented) ensures that able pupils are challenged academically in their chosen subjects, often in extra lessons. All pupils have the opportunity to take part in trips out of school, from local geography fieldwork visits to large-scale sports or music tours abroad. “Attention


to the individual continues beyond the


classroom at Kent College. The school extends its GREAT provision into both sport and the arts through its GTX (Gifted and Talented Extension) programme. In sport, a GTX scholar can access one-to-one coaching, advice about nutrition,


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