Boarding for Girls
Girls' Boarding
In response to the continuing demand, we were delighted to start welcoming girls into boarding with effect from September 2009, converting the Deputy Head's house on site into a dedicated boarding house. This is a spacious modern house set in its own very attractive gardens, and it offers a really welcoming 'home from home', initially for eight girls.
Girls' boarding has proved very popular and we are already planning an extension to provide another four places, which should be available in Spring 2011.
Our Housemistress, Stevie Joyce, lives in, and her Assistant is Rachel Woodgate. Boarding is fully flexible as for the boys.
Stevie has an impressively varied CV including setting up and running an International Primary School on a remote island in The Philippines. She has also worked in the Middle East as an English teacher and as a SCUBA diving instructor.
In her youth Stevie worked with Kaleidoscope T
heatre, a group that involves mentally and physically challenged adolescents in Drama. Her love of Drama has stayed with her and is being put to good use teaching Drama to Years 7, 8 and 9, so she has plenty of involvement in the school.
The girls take most of their meals in the Main House, and joining in with the boarding boys for some activities as appropriate, but also to have plenty of opportunity to 'do their own thing'.
We believe this development will greatly benefit the whole school environment and represents a significant step forward both for us, and for dyslexia provision for girls in general.
Our first girls brave the snow!
