A warm welcome awaits all our boarding families and students! Please join us on campus from 3 PM on the Sunday before Term One begins. This is a fantastic chance to get acquainted with our dedicated staff, explore your child's new bedroom, and take a full tour of the campus. We'll also be available to answer any questions you have, gather important information, and chat about the vibrant routine of a typical week here. 

If you're new to boarding and about to join our community, we extend a warm and heartfelt welcome. It's perfectly natural for you and your family to feel a little anxious as you take these first steps, but we encourage you to embrace the excitement and anticipation of this new chapter. Rest assured, there's nothing to worry about — many new boarders have come before you, and we are well-practiced in making both students and their families feel right at home.

However daunting it may first appear, the boarding routine will become second nature surprisingly quickly. There will be things to get right at the beginning, such as uniform, the timetable, layout of the school and the daily routine, but help and guidance is always on hand and we will do whatever it takes to make the transition a very smooth one.

Boarding can present some emotional difficulties for some new students and their families, especially during the first few weeks. We hope that new boarders will feel able to talk to us about any homesickness that may occur so that we can share our experience of it and do our very best to comfort and support boarders through it. In short, there is always someone on hand to talk to and help you, no matter how big or small the issue may be.

New students will go through a thorough induction programme and be paired up with an experienced student mentor to whom he/she may go to with any queries. This student mentor or ‘buddy’ will be a reliable and caring boarder who will be able to set a good example and who will have a genuine interest in helping new students to settle in. All of our boarders are like a family and they support each other so it’s not long before new boarders are not new anymore and they in turn support someone else.