Why board with us?

• A happy, caring and safe friendly home from home
• A school with a long-established tradition of boarding: boys and girls
• 20% of the school community boards
• Full, weekly and flexi-boarding available
• Boarders from UK, China, Japan, Germany, Spain, Russia and day students from UK, Vietnam, Brazil, Columbia, Ukraine, Korea:  a truly multicultural environment routed in British traditions and culture
• Excellent academic results (13% A* at A levels in 2010: double the national average: 1 in 3 A level grades were A* or A grades.  GCS in 2010: 1 in 3 grades A* or A, 96% 5 or more A*-C grades, many subjects over 50% A*/A and 100% C and above)
• 10 minutes by train/bus/car from Bournemouth town centre, with its excellent shopping/entertainment /theatres
• 2 minutes' walk from the golden sandy beaches of Southbourne and 5 minutes from Europe’s first artificial surf reef
• The internationally acclaimed heritage sites of the New Forest, Stonehenge, and the Jurassic coastline are all within 30 minutes' drive of BCS
• A superb range of daily and weekend activities for boarders
• Excellent boarding and school facilities

• Superb in house catering provides  healthy and wholesome meals, catering for all tastes and dietary requirements
• Boarding for 11 – 18 year olds, boys and girls
• Many armed forces boarders
• Wide subject choice in the school
• Happy boarders, delighted and satisfied parents and a school staff fully involved with boarders and their well-being.
• A school with exciting new developments, including significant boarding upgrades
• Significant strengths in music and sport at BCS
• Homely, vibrant and flexible
• Water sports available for boarders as activities
• See what the boarders say for themselves in the An unforgettable experience page

 

CLICK HERE to download the Boarding Prospectus

CLICK HERE to download Boarding Newsletter No 1

CLICK HERE to download the Flexi-boarding Leaflet