A safe empowering environment in which our Year 9 to 11 pupils build on their previous learning foundations, our House system provides a richly diverse boarding life and a continued breadth of academic study and co-curricular activities designed to develop teamwork and leadership skills.
Life for boarders at King Edward’s is richly diverse with each pupil enjoying a wealth of social and learning opportunities. Our lively community of full-time boarders enjoys a full and exciting activities programme on offer each evening and weekend. Full-time boarders live at School seven days a week throughout the term, apart from exeat weekends. Each term has two exeat weekends when boarders leave for home at 16:00 on Friday and return the following Sunday evening, allowing time to be spent with parents and guardians during term time.
Boarding facilities
House accommodation for boarders includes two and four bedrooms for Year 9 to 11 pupils and a number of single en-suite bedrooms for lower sixth form pupils. Each house has its own dedicated spaces for study and relaxation with a lounge area and the ‘Acky’, short for activity room where pupils can watch TV, play games and socialise over a range of activities.
Our girls and boys houses are generally linked via a communal area where our pupils can come together to share their free time and mixed sex siblings will be assigned to paired houses to ensure they can enjoy family time whilst at school.
Weekend activities
Throughout the weekend, our full-time boarders have a broad range of fun and educational activities to choose from, both arranged by house and larger trips for all pupils, including Go Karting, ice skating, trips to local attractions, attending local or national sporting events, day trips to London and house-based entertainment with BBQs, pizza or film nights. Inter-house activities and competitions are keenly contested.
Last term our boarders enjoyed Ice Discos, Fright Night at Thorpe Park, Go Karting, Climbing and Christmas Shopping at Bluewater along with enriching trips to Observatory Science Centre, Herstmonceux, The National Theatre, Westminster Abbey and East London Mosque, Houses of Parliament, and a trip to France.
Throughout the weekend, our dedicated in-house team are on hand to help with supporting studies, ensuring that our boarders are up to date with their prep and music practice.