Independent Boarding School of the Year: Canford School
Canford School in Dorset has won in the Boarding School category in the Independent Schools of the Year 2018
Many schools claim to be ?full boarding?, but offer a host of weekly and flexi options. Canford School in Dorset prides itself on its genuinely full boarding ethos and offers a seven-day a week boarding programme, with day pupils taking part in all the evening and weekend activities offered.
This model allows the school to provide a very wide ranging programme of curriculum and co-curricular opportunities and makes for an inclusive, cohesive, close knit, dynamic school community.
Boarding life is based around the house system. There are ten houses of approximately 65 pupils, and each has its own distinctive feel. However, unlike some boarding schools, Canford has central dining in the Grade 1 listed main building which allows the 655 pupils from across the 250 acre site to socialise together. Nurturing leadership skills and offering pupils opportunities to take responsibility is seen as an important part of every pupil?s development.
Within the boarding houses this is fostered through initiatives such as organisation of fundraising events and family days, while pupils across houses also contribute to whole school events such as the fiercely contested inter-house competitions for music, drama, art, sport and debating, an annual Sixth Form Lip Sync Battle in support of the Louis Ross Foundation ? a former pupil who died tragically in a ski accident.
The innovative Pupi...
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