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| Learning to live and work together
The majority of the 730 students making up Chigwell’s Junior and Senior Schools are day pupils, living in the local community, but we do have a strong and close-knit resident community living on-site.
Our boarding community is based on small, extended-family-sized houses where international students and local weekly boarders live together with staff and their families. This creates a friendly, supportive environment, which can be a home-from-home for our foreign students and a stepping-stone towards wider horizons for our more local students.
Our boarders are Sixth Formers, preparing for university life. For many it will be their first experience of living away from home and with a group of other young people from many different parts of the world.
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| Academically, boarding can prove to be of real advantage, providing a structured study routine during the week, supported by help and advice from staff. All the house-parents of our boarding houses are Oxford or Cambridge graduates and, between them and other teaching staff resident in the houses, the subject range covered is broad. |
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Students learn to manage their own time and develop sound habits of study in a structured environment, with academic staff always available to help with work. They are also able to use the school week more efficiently, avoiding travel and having convenient access to School facilities. Taken together, these features can reduce some of the stress of school life and allow more time for relaxation at the weekend. Many of our sixth form boarders have met with great academic success.
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Our Boarding Houses
The oldest and largest of the three boarding houses is Grange Court, a magnificent eighteenth-century mansion offering spacious and varied accommodation for up to 30 boys. Its spacious and varied accommodation give ample opportunity for private study, or friendly gathering in its common room, games room, computers room and kitchen. A large private and secure garden to the rear of the house is ideal for quiet revision or informal entertainment.
There are four resident teachers who are available for evening tuition as well as a gap year student. David Morrison, the Senior Boarding House Master, and his wife, Loredana, oversee the progress of wellbeing of all the boys, supported by the house tutors.
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| Sandon Lodge, offering accommodation for up to 10 girls, has been the Sixth Form girls' boarding house for over thirty years. It is an early Victorian farmhouse standing in the middle of the school fields, next to an old orchard. As a sixth form house, Sandon aims to encourage independence and a sense of responsibility within a homely and supportive environment. Outside the structured evening study periods, the girls have considerable freedom and are encouraged to use their free time constructively. They are encouraged to make the most of our proximity to the cultural opportunities of the capital, both independently and as part of school outings. House Parents Alison and Chris Lord, supported by two house tutors, are always available and, because of the small size of the house, get to know all their students well. |
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Hainault House, the most recently built of our boarding houses, is a grand, late-Victorian house offering accommodation for up to 10 girls. Bright airy bedrooms and plenty of room to work and socialise enhance the friendly family atmosphere that is a hallmark of Hainault House. Hainault also enjoys the advantage of a large garden to relax in – barbecues and croquet are frequent features of the Summer Term. Hainault House is run by the House Parents, Sue and Andy McKenzie, and Lynda Dicks, the School Matron.
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Special Support for International Students
From the moment when William Penn, one of the most distinguished Old Chigwellians, travelled to the United States to found Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia, Chigwell School developed an international dimension. Today it offers a unique experience for international students joining our Sixth Form for A/S and A2 (Advanced Level) examinations.
Two thirds of our students reach A and B grades at A level and go on to University, 10% to Oxford and Cambridge. Our international students take a full part in this success and have become some of our most successful students. Boarders living on-site also benefit from the support of resident academic staff in the evenings and weekends. All the House Parents of our boarding houses are Oxford and Cambridge graduates, and the staff resident on site include specialists in most subjects.
At Chigwell we are realistic about the difficulties which international students face when they first arrive to study in a new country and a foreign language. A carefully designed induction programme is therefore provided for each student.
All overseas students are also supported throughout their studies by an EFL programme in which they can take internationally recognized Cambridge Proficiency and IGCSE Certificates, so matriculating for UK Universities.
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Become fully involved in an English School
Chigwell offers its international students the unique partnership, which exists between our three boarding houses and our four-day houses. Each boarder is an integral part of a day house in which they mix with English students from within a 20-kilometre radius of Chigwell.
Boarders receive the double pastoral support of belonging both to a day house and a boarding house. In the boarding house they will find other international students (from many different countries) who know what it is like to be a foreigner away from home, while in the day house they will be fully involved in English school life. To help new overseas students get to know their English colleagues, each international student is given a “student mentor”, an English student of the same age who has been at the school for some years, and who will help the new international student get to know their class at Chigwell.
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