Try boarding schools for a whole new take on your child's school life.
It’s so cool to be smart
SMARTS: Boarding schools aim for their students to be the best they can be through study and to have confident social skills as well.
CLEVER: New experiences help to stretch your learning powers and focus on the pathways to a brilliant career; all are great expectations at boarding school.
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THE boarding school of today is a place of friendship and support with boarding staff providing a "home away from home" and a warm and secure environment for their students. The happy memories of contemporary boarding life will last a lifetime as will the benefits of learning how to live in community with others.
But above all, it evokes in its students the memory of experiences which enriched them for a lifetime of being comfortable with being smart.
1. It's cool to be smart.
This is probably the best reason to go to boarding school. In a public school the kids who really want to learn frequently end up being social outcasts. Not so in boarding school. It's cool to be smart in boarding school. It's also very cool to learn.
2. You will be surrounded by classmates who are also smart.
Your classmates are in boarding school because they want to be there. They want to learn too. They want to be successful. The reason you go to private school is to learn. Most schools are rather selective about who they admit. Being willing to work hard in class and play hard on the sporting field is all part of the package boarding schools offer.
3. You will learn to be responsible for yourself.
Taking a lot of little steps towards maturity is one of the intangibles of going to boarding school. You have to learn to get along with others because it is a community. You learn to be responsible for your actions because you are bound by an honor or discipline code of some kind. The lessons in life learned in boarding school will lay a solid foundation for adulthood.
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4. You will make friends for life.
Most boarding school graduates look back at their years in school as a time when lasting friendships were established. Coupled with that is the building of a network of friends and acquaintances who know you and care about you. Isn't that what life is really all about? Being surrounded by people who understand you and care about you is affirming and encouraging. We can all do with a dose of encouragement now and then.
5. The libraries/media centres are amazing.
The older, more established schools have traditional really well equipped library facilities. Libraries have morphed over the years into media centres. The typical boarding school library will have the latest technology available, in addition to all the usual print materials. And they will have them in abundance.
6. What boarding schools are really like.
If your idea of boarding schools has been formed by books and movies like Goodbye Mr Chips and The Dead Poets Society, such romantic ideas of the boarding schools of today will be quite different of course.