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INTERNATIONAL BOARDING INTERNATIONAL BOARDING AT CHIGWELL SCHOOL WHERE WE ARE 3 1 Chigwell School is set in the 1 A pretty village of Chigwell on the north-east edge of London. It provides easy access to the CHIGWELL TO M25 centre of London (Chigwell SCHOO L is in Zone 4 of the London Underground) and to Heathrow, B 1 17 0 Stansted, Luton, Gatwick and M1 City airports. CH IGWE LL RISE H RD G HI CHIGWELL H A TO A406 I NA UL T RD 3 A 11 1 A 2 3 AN INTRODUCTION base for students from different well as a variety of teaching staff TO INTERNATIONAL countries to play a full part in an who also work as tutors in the English school. boarding houses, helping students BOARDING AT with their work, and organising The resident community at trips, lectures and social events in CHIGWELL Chigwell consists of some 30 the evenings and weekends. Boarding at Chigwell aims to sixth-form students living on STANSTED create a friendly and supportive campus. The students live in four Boarding at Chigwell is therefore home-from-home for international extended family-style houses (two a mature community in which LUTON students in the sixth form. We for girls and two for boys) – in each sixth-form students, living specialise in helping foreign house a group of 7 or 8 students of closely with staff, are prepared students adapt happily and securely different nationalities live together for the adult world of university CHIGWELL to living and studying in the UK, and with their houseparents and and beyond. Independence and SOUTHEND preparing them for successful entry family. The houses are all situated personal responsibility are valued into British universities. Chigwell is close together on the school and encouraged in all students, a traditional English school, strongly site, and share the central school so that by the time they leave us rooted in our local community facilities (playing fi elds, sports hall, they are ready for the next stage in CITY which, being so close to London, swimming pool, café, library etc.). their lives. By keeping the boarding HEATHROW is cosmopolitan and welcoming to Several other staff live in houses houses small, and the staff-student new arrivals. Our small, friendly, nearby, including the Headmaster ratio high, we are able to treat every boarding houses provide a secure and Chaplain and their families, as student as an individual. “Boarders praise the school for the consideration that is afforded GATWICK to their individual needs and they relish the opportunity to share aspects of their own cultures in a positive and welcoming environment.” Independent Schools Inspectorate 2 3 FAMILY BOARDING Chigwell’s family boarding houses ACADEMIC English language support of the boarding houseparents, and receive frequent visits from past resident students have easy access All boarding schools say their SUPPORT FOR The language of our boarding pupils who return to see what they to all the experts and distinguished boarding houses are like a family, houses is always English as we have consider to be their ‘fi rst home’ in INTERNATIONAL speakers who come to talk to but ours really are! Our family so many nationalities and don’t England and exchange news with BOARDERS boarding system provides a secure have large other-language groups. students at the school. their old houseparents. home for new students, helping Boarding houses are run by Because it is so easy to make them to adapt to life in a new The houses have all the essentials highly qualifi ed and senior friends with local British students, country. In each house a group for modern family life. Each house academic staff our international students quickly “The mentoring has a well-equipped kitchen if of 7 or 8 students of different Our houseparents include the fi nd themselves speaking English nationalities live together with the students choose to prepare food for programme is Director of Studies, a number all the time. There is also English houseparents and their families, themselves, and cosy living rooms of Heads of Departments and Language Support, taught by fantastic as it which means our houseparents to relax and enjoy time together. highly experienced staff, teaching individual tutorials with specialist really can have plenty of time provides boarders The houses are all situated on a range of subjects. Students language staff, one of whom is a for everyone. an opportunity the school site and share the live in an academic atmosphere resident houseparent. Boarding Most of the students at Chigwell central school facilities including and have easy access to support. tutors also work with students to make friends live locally, close to the school. The the playing fi elds, sports hall and Each boarding house also has two one-to-one. with day students boarders are able to get to know outdoor swimming pool, dining hall, additional tutors who spend an Outside experts local students and their families theatre, library and coffee shop. The evening a week in the houses. There easily.” and experience ordinary British life school has 100 acres of beautiful is always someone at home to ask The school’s intellectual society, Chigwell boarder outside school. Our small boarding grounds, but the facilities are in for help and to discuss ideas with. the Williams Project, is run by one houses act like ordinary homes and close proximity to each other so boarders can socialise with their only a short walk from each of the local friends nearby. boarding houses. “British pupil mentors volunteer for their role in the year prior to a boarder’s arrival. This early contact has a signifi cant impact on the confi dence and speed with which boarders settle.” “The atmosphere in Independent Schools the boarding house Inspectorate is actually one of the best things about living here. It really feels like a family and our houseparents seem to care about us; it’s great that they don’t treat it just as a job, but also a relationship.” Chigwell boarder 4 5 EXTRA-CURRICULAR and international competition SOCIAL ACTIVITIES ACTIVITIES such as the Model United Nations “From arrival day, FOR BOARDERS and inter-school debating. Our welcome dinner Chigwell is a very busy school, international boarders have an Amid all the work, activities in with a wide range of extra- excellent record in the Mathematics with parents and school, invitations from local curricular activities to suit all and Science Olympiads, with a boarders, and friends, trips to London and types of student. Sport plays past student competing in the the day out into elsewhere, we also take time to an important part in the life of fi nal of the Physics Olympiad be together both as individual the school and the site includes competition in India in 2015 and London on the boarding houses and as a whole expertly maintained facilities Switzerland in 2016. fi rst weekend resident community. including playing fi elds, astro- Community service and charity turf, a swimming pool, netball/ together with the We always celebrate birthdays, work are two more important tennis courts, sports hall and small boarding we hold parties and barbecues, we aspects of Chigwell life, and gymnasium. There is also a decorate the house for Christmas, boarders have been involved community, our son thriving Music department and and we regularly cook a house in strengthening the bond of Drama department with a was made to feel at dinner together on Fridays. Each year union beyond the school and state-of-the-art 150-seat theatre. home right away.” we enjoy a number of formal dinners the local area and volunteering as a community including The Academic societies provide the at the Chigwell Riding Trust for Parent of Chigwell boarder Headmaster’s Welcome Dinner, the chance to compete in local, national Special Needs. annual Chinese New Year Dinner and Orthodox Christmas celebrations. In September houseparents, their families and the boarders travel for a weekend to Othona which is on the Essex coast, enjoying a break from school life as well as visiting the oldest stone church in England and having a bonfi re on the beach. Every year the Lower Sixth visit Cambridge University where they are shown around colleges by old Chigwellians who are now studying there. They return to Chigwell, inspired and motivated by what they experience. Other occasions the boarders enjoy together are keenly contested sports nights which have included mixed basketball, dodgeball and team badminton whilst in the summer term rounders’ matches played on top fi eld are a feature of sunny evenings. Classic fi lm nights in the drama theatre have also been popular. A highlight of last year was the Hogwarts Christmas Dinner organised by the houseparents and girls from Sandon Lodge for the whole boarding community. The “The quality of dining hall was lit by candlelight boarding provision and we drank butterbeer and ate “It’s the little things that make a big difference and care is Christmas dinner. There was a quiz and you would never fi nd it in any other large for the Harry Potter fanatics to boarding school with their big dormitories excellent.” show off their knowledge and a number of the Chigwell teachers and hundreds of boarders.” Independent Schools Inspectorate got into role as Dumbledore, Parent of Chigwell boarder Minerva McGonagall and Snape. 6 7 THE HOUSES HAINAULT HOUSE Girls’ Boarding House Hainault House was built in 1874 in a grand Victorian Gothic style. Hainault House is run by Amanda and Ian Goddard. Amanda is the Director of Boarding and teaches Geography and Ian is the school’s Head of History and Housemaster of Lambourne Day House.

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