Boarding FAQs - Moreton Hall

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Boarding FAQs

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Boarding
What are the Advantages of Boarding?
What Age Can Children Board From?
Do You Offer Flexi Boarding / Weekly Boarding?
Do We Have To Commit To Boarding Or Day As Soon As Our Child Joins The School?
How Often Can My Child Come Home?
How Does Boarding Affect Family Life?

“It really is one big family.”

– Grace, Pupil

Boarding

Moreton Hall is predicated as a boarding school. As such, because of the structure of our day, we have the opportunity to use many more hours of the day to cover lessons, sports and activities than a non-boarding school does.

What are the Advantages of Boarding?

Moreton Hall pupils pack more into one school day than many of their peers would fit into a week and boarding supports this. Time that other pupils may use travelling to and from school, to and from clubs and non-school activities are incorporated into our school day.

As Moreton Hall is still a relatively small school, the Houses have a family atmosphere and outstanding pastoral support. The pupils are in a happy, busy, nurturing environment with their friends and with caring adults 24 hours a day.

Pupils develop a level of social skills, independence and confidence that they may not experience living at home preparing them for university and adult life.

What Age Can Children Board From?

Boys and girls from Year 3 can start boarding at Moreton either on a flexible or full-time basis, in specially designed Houses. As pupils mature and develop, so they move up through the various Houses of the school.

Do You Offer Flexi Boarding / Weekly Boarding?

For those who are not full-time boarders, we offer the option to sleep over up to 3 nights per week, space permitting. A charge applies for this unless pupils are specifically asked to stay for a school commitment.

A weekly boarding option is also available, which includes weekend transport to and from Manchester, Liverpool, or Birmingham.

Do We Have To Commit To Boarding Or Day As Soon As Our Child Joins The School?

Apart from the holidays, we have two fixed exeats in the autumn term, one in the spring term, and one in the summer term. Pupils almost always go home or go to a guardian on these weekends but it is possible for pupils to remain in school. Apart from that, we are happy for pupils to go home on a Friday night if they wish to, after they have fulfilled any school commitments they may have (which includes Saturday sporting fixtures), but we find that there is so much going on during the weekends that many pupils choose to remain in school.

How Often Can My Child Come Home?

Apart from the holidays, we have two fixed exeats in the autumn term and one in the summer term. Pupils almost always go home or go to a guardian on these weekends but it is possible for students to remain in school. Then we have ‘Target’ weekends when we ask that pupils do not go out unless parents request otherwise. Apart from that, we are happy for pupils to go home on a Saturday night if they wish to, after they have fulfilled any school commitments they may have, but we find that there is so much going during the weekends that many pupils choose to remain in school.

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How Does Boarding Affect Family Life?

Families often value the time they share together more and look forward to the holiday periods, exeat weekends and half terms finding they can spend ‘quality time’ in each other’s company having removed some of the parental stresses associated with prepand day to day school tasks.

Not only is there a full calendar of events on each term for our pupils, we also actively encourage our parents to engage with school events and with other parents. Each year group has its own Parent Year Group Representative who encourages communication between families and the school and family attendance at school events to develop a school community that incorporates our families as well as our pupils.

Relationships between the younger and older pupils, including siblings, are preserved through the four Divisions; competitions and meetings throughout the year ensure that cross year group links are nurtured throughout each pupil’s school life.