Activities and Boarding
Boarding at Ashfold is an integral part of the education we offer your children and is open to Senior Department children. It teaches them valuable life skills about living together with other people. It helps them to gain greater independence and the chance for families to see whether boarding might be an option when choosing the next school. For those that do, the boarding experience at Ashfold provides invaluable preparation.
After school each day, the Houseparents and boarding staff assume responsibility for looking after boarders until after breakfast the next day. They do their very best to ensure that children enjoy and learn from the experience in as homely an atmosphere as possible. That around 80% of all Senior Department children choose to board is a measure of their success.
Towards the end of each term we publish a letter inviting Senior Department children to opt into the next term's Evening Activities Programme (see Evening Activities) and Boarding. They may choose to board regularly between one and four nights each week, but it is for you to decide how many nights you will allow them to stay with us. Generally, children start boarding one night each week and build this up as they, and their parents, become more confident.
Further information about boarding is available in a 'Boarding at Ashfold' leaflet which is contained in the Boarding section.