Rooms

Room Allocation 

Rooms are allocated based on affirmed gender identity, age, and school year group at the start of each academic year, or when a new boarding student joins. As an international school, we encourage cultural integration by placing students with roommates from different backgrounds, supporting opportunities to learn from and with each other.

Single rooms are available only in limited numbers and at additional cost; however, we encourage students to stay in twin rooms in order to benefit from the community experience of boarding. Allocation decisions also take into account safeguarding and pastoral considerations.

We do not distinguish between students on the basis of race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected characteristic.

When moving into a room, students may be asked to complete and sign an inventory form. Furniture may not be removed or rearranged, and large items and furniture may not be added without the permission of the Boarding House Manager or Director of Operations. If approved, students will be responsible of taking these items with them when they leave Eerde. Students will be charged for missing or broken furniture, or for damage to the room.

Room Decorations 

You are invited to personalise your room to assure you have a home away from home feeling. For that purpose, we have added corkboards to the rooms. When decorating your room, please respect these guidelines:

• Decorations may not be a fire hazard or Health & Safety hazard. Boarding parents will therefore check your room decorations for safety reasons during regular room checks.

• Posters and decorations deemed to be sexually explicit, racist, controversial or vulgar are not allowed.

• You are not allowed to drill/make holes, using nails or screws in the walls/furniture, windows or doors without consent from the Boarding House Manager.

• Your door towards the hall is not to be decorated because that side is considered a fire hazard.

• Please do not use stickers and tape on the wooden furniture/walls.

Room Key 

All boarding students receive their own personal room key upon arrival. This is signed for and the responsibility of the student, the fee for a replacement key is EUR 25.

Room Tidiness & Cleanliness 

Students are expected to maintain a high level of tidiness, cleanliness and order throughout the boarding house, particularly with regards to their own room. Beds should be made, clothes hung up or stored correctly, personal items put away and floors left clean to assist cleaning staff. As well as paying attention to cleanliness and hygiene, you are expected to be able to organise your own belongings in readiness for school. Storage of food and drinks in your own room is a privilege and one that can be lost if it creates unhygienic/unhealthy situations and so a hazard to the health of our student body. Room inspections take place on a regular basis with at least one thorough inspection a week. This can involve checking all hiding places where clothes and things are often hastily moved out of sight. Restrictions are placed on students who continuously fail to respect the relevant boarding house standards with regards to room tidiness and cleanliness.

Cleaning, a joint effort 

Keeping the boarding houses liveable, neat and clean is a joint effort. Our cleaning staff support you in keeping your room clean. You are expected to make your bed every day, open the curtains and air your room. You should also keep your room organised and free of clutter. Please note: that our cleaning staff will only clean rooms that are neatly organised. If you fail to keep your room tidy, you will be expected to do the cleaning yourself. If you’ve never done this before, our boarding staff will show you how. Repeated problems will be dealt with as a behavioural issue.

Appliances

To enhance safety, we have strict guidelines regarding items you can keep in your room. We allow the following standard electronic devices: hairdryer, electric razor, fan, and one small refrigerator (max. 45 litre) per room, provided they are CE marked. Data transmitters, water kettles, portable heaters or airconditioners, tv's, computer consoles, or string extension cords are not permitted. Please contact the boarding parent to discuss any appliances you would like to use/add.

Private Space / Single-Sex Room Policy / Quiet Time

Your room is your own private space. We respect one another’s privacy. No staff member and no student will enter a room without first knocking and receiving permission.

Bedrooms in the boarding houses are allocated according to affirmed gender identity, with separate sections designated for girls and for boys. Access control measures are in place to ensure safety and privacy within each section.

Students from different sections may visit one another’s rooms after school Monday to Friday, all day (after 9.00 hrs) on the weekends, but only with the door fully open so that the Boarding Team can supervise appropriately. In the evenings, students are required to remain in their own section of the boarding house. From 22:00 onwards, when the boarding houses close for the night (23.00 hrs on Friday and Saturday), students must be in their own boarding house, and in their bedroom at their designated “room time”.

Everyone needs quiet time for proper rest and recovery. Silence is to be strictly observed from 23.00 hrs (midnight on the weekends) to 7.00 hrs (9.00 hrs on the weekends). This not only means not talking, but also not moving around the room anymore. The boarding houses are monumental buildings, and noise travels easily. Be considerate of your housemates. No showering after roomtime. 

Communal Rooms 

Our communal spaces are well furnished, cosily decorated and filled with items for free time pursuits. Each student is welcome to use these spaces freely. We expect students to deal respectfully with the communal spaces e.g. kitchen, sitting room, entertainment room, fitness area, etc. This includes returning crockery and cutlery to the kitchen after use, avoiding littering or tidying the laundry space after use.