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Our chosen charity is The Barth Syndrome Foundation
Our charity challenges from previous years can be viewed here.
our boarding day
our boarding day
7:00 am Wake up and Get Ready
7:35 am Morning Roll Call + Breakfast
8:20 - 8:40 am Tutor Time in Tutor Bases
8:45 - 10:40 am Lessons 1 & 2
10:40 - 11:10 am Break
11:10 - 13:10 am Lessons 3 & 4
12:45 - 2:00 pm Staggered Lunch
register in House after Lunch with teacher on duty
Sixth Formers can go to lunch during period 4, if they have a free
Tuesdays and Thursdays is In House Lunch (meet for roll call at 1:15 pm)
Legat recommences at 2 pm
2:20 - 4:20 pm Lessons 5 & 6 or Activities 2:45 - 4:45
5:10 pm Roll Call
5:20 - 6:30 pm Prep One (6:45 pm seniors)
6:30 - 7:30 pm Supper
7:30 - 8:30 pm Prep Two
from 9:15 pm Staggered Bedtime
Click image to access uniform guide.
What (not) to wear
What (not) to wear
After afternoon activities you can wear your own clothes and on weekends too. During the school day and at official school functions such as open mornings and welcome events you will be in school uniform. The rules vary between Juniors and Seniors (PreSixth, as far as uniform is concerned you are Sixth Formers, i.e. Seniors). Please click on the image to get to the official guide, some of our Dorter girls have modelled the uniform for you. For Sixth Formers this is about looking business-like in colour matching blazer and skirt / trousers. Juniors are basically wearing the school uniform as sold in the school shop. There is a prescribed skirt length (just above the knee), you will be told. For PE, and sporty or practical activities you need to wear the Team Bede's branded sports wear. Luckily, someone made sure our house jumpers are branded too, so wear them with pride. You can order them every September, this will be announced in roll call.
bedtime
bedtime
Basically, the older you are the longer you can stay up. First Years and Lower Fifth will have to hand in their tech (phones, ipads, laptops) to the prefect on duty before they settle into their rooms. This is a school wide rule and protects your sleeping hours from too much screen time. You will get them back in the morning, no worries. First Years are in their room by 9:15 pm, then in bed by 9:30 pm and lights out by 9:45 pm.
For the Lower Fifth these times are 9:30 pm, 9:45 pm and 10:00 pm - for the Upper Fifth they are 10:00 pm, 10:15 pm and 10:30 pm respectively.
The lights in the house are being gradually dimmed during this hour. Noise needs to be kept to a minimum. Sixth formers and presixth girls need to be in their by 10:30 pm. You are old and hopefully mature enough to know how much sleep you need to get through the next day. Please mind your room mate, when burning the midnight oil, be considerate - different people different rhythms.
Please be aware of bedtimes and that mobile phone calls should not take place after these times.
not feeling so good?
not feeling so good?
If you feel ill or low or are in pain - talk to an adult in the house. Our matrons are your first port of call. They know what they are doing, they will ask you questions and take your temperature, and will then determine the next course of action: give you medicine, make medical centre or external doctor appointments, decide whether you should go to your lessons or not. They will make you a cup of tea.
Also speak to your tutor, house mistress or resident staff. We are are here to help you get better, feel better. Your tutor will often know best about your academic pressures and will be understanding and aim to take some of these pressures off you.
Sometimes however, you will just need to get on with it. Can you miss lessons because you have pulled an all-nighter trying to catch up on looming deadlines? No, of course not. It's all part of growing up and getting ready for uni, adult life.
resolving Conflicts
resolving Conflicts
Dorter is your home from home for the time you are at school - a large family. Family members argue, friends fall out and then make up again ... it is normal, it happens, it's ok. What is not ok is if people were nasty to one another repeatedly, in a targeted manner. At Dorter, as in the whole of Bede's, we do not tolerate bullying.
If you cannot solve the issue easily, maybe with the help of friends, you need to talk to the adults in the house. House staff will be your first port of call when you have interpersonal problems. Housemistress, resident staff, tutors and matrons are always around in the House, should you need to speak to any of us. But who you choose to go and see is really up to you and depends on which member of the house staff you feel most comfortable talking to.
This not only applies to issues arising in the house, but also around campus, in lessons and your life outside school. If you have a worry, however big or small, there are also other people you can ask for help: your subject teachers, your Head of Year, the School Nurse, the School Counsellor or the School Chaplain. You can use whispernet.
laundry
laundry
Our matrons will wash most of your clothes for you, so it is important that all of your belongings are named. Your laundry should be placed in the washing baskets provided by matron in the morning before school starts and collected from her the next day. Items of clothing not suitable for machine washing and drying should not be brought to school unless you wish to pay for them to be dry-cleaned. Sheets and pillow cases are sent to the linen laundry once a week - or more often if required. Fresh bed linen is handed back each Thursday afternoon, please take yours after 5pm roll call at the latest!
our house
our house
We live in the most beautiful location on campus. Yes, you have to leg it quite a bit from busses to Dorter, situated at the far end of the school premises, past the lake and across the green river of goldfish, but we are sheltered from the busyness of the place and the noise of the road. In fact, the lake is just around the corner, we have a huge (!) garden and picnic area beyond our terrace bordering the forest. The house is big and gives a lot of space for common activities and retreat. If you are a dancer, Legat is right outside. There is an indoor bit between Dorter and Cambo where one can socialise in the evenings. A great home in all seasons!
where to get things from?
where to get things from?
Need a new pen? Feeling peckish? Run out of avocados and almond milk? Essential school equipment, stationery, pens, note books but also toiletries can be bought at the Village Shop which is open every weekday and Saturday mornings. Access times to the Village Shop depends on your year group, as it is a public store and we don't want to overcrowd them! They also sell snacks, baguettes, ciabatta rolls, sweets and drinks, such as hot chocolate. In addition you can go supermarket shopping on weekends in Hailsham or Eastbourne. You will need to sign up for these outings as places on the transport are limited. Most evenings, the prefects open the tuck shop where you can buy a soft drink or chocolate bar, or toothpaste and so on. Proceeds go towards our charity.
rooms & Kitchen
rooms & Kitchen
You will share a bedroom with other boarders, usually from the same year group. The multi-dorms downstairs are for the lower years and pre-sixth, and the twin-rooms upstairs are for sixth formers. Upstairs is reserved for them and lower school girls should not go up there at all, unless they visit the tuck shop.
There is storage space for essential items, clothes, school things. Your unpacked suitcases will go to the trunk room. Valuable items of any kind should not be brought to school unless they are needed for study. Under no circumstances should you leave cash in your rooms unattended. For the safe and private storage of personal items, each of you is provided with a small, lockable cupboard or safe. Padlocks are available from matron. If, for any reason, you do have to have valuable items at school these should be immediately handed in to the housemistress who will record their receipt of the item and secure it in the House safe.
All areas of the house are cleaned daily. Please take care of your room, be as tidy as you can. Your teachers will check!
The same applies to the kitchen. This is a shared area and it is everyone's responsibility to keep it tidy and hygienic, not just the student on duty. Please check the food you put into the fridge whether it is out of date or has just been sitting there for too long without being wanted. It needs to be thrown out. We have a dishwasher and when the magnet is on green and says "clean" it needs to be emptied first, then put the sign on red "dirty" and you can out your used plates, cups and cutlery in there.
Weekend meal times
Weekend meal times
At the weekend you can sleep in. On Saturdays Breakfast is in house at 9:15 am and lunch for all from 12 pm to 1:00 pm. Supper is being served from 6:00 pm in house. On Sundays breakfast is called brunch and it allows you even more time in the morning, it runs from 10:30 am to 11:15 am. Supper is half an hour later at 6:30 (like weekdays basically).
prep
prep
Prep One for all is from 5:20 pm, after five o' clock roll call. First Years do their prep mostly in the nearby maths building, supervised by a member of staff on duty or a prefect. Lower Fifth do prep in the common area, Upper Fifth, PreSixth and Sixth Form in their rooms. At 6:30 pm the lower years go to dinner, the upper years 20 minutes later.
There never is such a thing as "I have no prep" or "I have done all my prep". You can always revise, go over your notes from lessons, extend your research, read around the topic, explore some extra revision resources, it's all out there and called independent learning - irrespective of whether you are in an exam year or not. It's what you will be doing at uni.
Prep Two starts at 7:30 pm and goes on for an hour. Then too it is very important that the house is quiet and students do academic work or at least read. We have many Legat girls amongst us and to them Prep Two is their only chance in the day to get homework done.
On the note of quiet. Yes, you can have your headphones on, but please do not listen to music with vocals as you will not be able to concentrate properly. However, research shows that listening to instrumental lofi beats enhances concentration and productivity.
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reading
reading
In Dorter we believe in long session reading. Young people today read more than any other generation before, however most of it is short format. Yet, what can be better than reading books where, for example, role model women tell fascinating stories as comments on our times, the past and the future?
We have a subscription to The llEconomist, the latest magazine issues appear every week on the reading table next to the piano. It offers great insight into current affairs, politics and world economics.
Or books pop up in bulks of 4 or 5 in the book shelf and it is great to see them being picked up by the girls and taken to rooms for bedtime reading, which is the exact idea. A well thumbed book is credit to its content. Reading at Dorter is an opportunity, not a chore. Sometimes we will then watch the films based on the books on our amazon fire stick at an in-house movie night.
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