Boarding Plans for opening

• When you arrive, you’ll be greeted at The Hub, where our medical team will be waiting. 
• You’ll need to be wearing a mask at this point. 
• Your child’s temperature will be checked here and then they’ll receive an ATK test.  
• If negative, they’ll be allowed to enter the Boarding Village. We ask parents and carers to say their goodbyes at The Hub, keeping the Boarding Village itself for boarders only. 
   

The procedures around social distancing, wearing of face masks and using hand sanitiser around the boarding village will remain. We have made the following provisions to improve the safety of the Boarding Village:

• Parents and other visitors will not be allowed inside the Village itself
• We have disabled all our fingerprint scanners and have wedged open high-traffic doors 
• We are restricting the maximum number in any bedroom to two, all with a safe distance between the beds 
• We will be conducting daily temperature checks 
• We have installed hand sanitisers on every floor of each boarding house 
• We are running a health-education session for the boarders to remind them of the importance of social distancing 
• We are insisting on the use of masks in and around the Village (but not in bedrooms, or on the upper floors) 
• We are staggering entrance and exit to the Hub for dining to maintain social distancing and have arranged seating to keep a safe distance between borders
• We’ve increased the laundry provision so that children can put their masks, bedding and clothes into the wash as often as they like 
   

We’ll run a programme for activities, just as we normally would. Each activity will be modified to ensure social distancing. Any equipment used will have been cleaned before the activity and will be cleaned afterwards. In the evenings the games pitches and the sports hall will be opened for boarders to have some socially distanced exercise. All of our recreational facilities are open for Boarders to use. 

On the days when certain year groups are learning online, the Boarding Village will be staffed, and boarders will be supervised completing their online lessons just as they would be if they were at home. 

Please don’t worry – we’ll ensure that online learning continues for children in this situation. Teachers will continue to post work on Google Classroom and will open Zoom meetings to share live demonstrations etc. Please let us know if you have any trouble accessing resources or participating online. 

Weekends will run just as they used to. We’ll be laying on activities, trips and delicious food, all with extra safety precautions built in. There’ll also be some time for supervised study.  

Of course! We are not letting adults on campus however if you wish to visit your child, let us know and we will make the necessary arrangements. You won’t be allowed into the Boarding Village itself, but you can meet your child in the Hub and/or take them out as you wish.