Boarding Houses

Each room in the boys’ boarding house has four beds, whereas the girls’ boarding house has between three and five beds to a room, according to the size of the room. Students are allocated to these rooms by age and class. The only other considerations are the students’ academic strengths and weaknesses, as often, a room can make an ideal study group. Rooms with access for students with disabilities can be available with proper access facilities as required.

Each student has a bed, desk, chair and lockable wardrobe. Bed linen is changed once a week, and there is a timetable for personal laundry and dry-cleaning. Each student is responsible for preparing their own bed linen and personal items for cleaning and should collect clean laundry every week. Tidiness of students’ own bed and area of the room is also the responsibility of each student.

Each bedroom has an en suite bathroom with a toilet, one shower and two washbasins. There are also electric sockets for stereos and other devices in all rooms (please note these are UK three-pin socket fixings). The rooms are cleaned daily by school staff, Monday to Friday. Each dormitory has a common room with an LCD television, a DVD player and recreational facilities such as a pool table, with two soccer tables in the cafeteria. The televisions all have access to satellite channels which are controlled centrally to ensure appropriateness.

Each dormitory will have 2 PCs with filtered Internet access as well as two telephone extensions and table tennis tables. Students wishing to make telephone calls from the extension should seek the houseparent’s permission at lunchtime and nominate a time and extension number for the call. Mobile phones are allowed with time restriction on use.

Prefects ensure that students go to their rooms and to bed at the appropriate times, and any problems are referred to the houseparent. It is also the prefect’s job to take note of any maintenance work which is required in any given room, and to inform the houseparent.