Boarding students at Penn International Christian Academy
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Boarding Student Life

What a week actually feels like when the school is also your home.

For a boarder, school does not end when lessons do. The afternoon belongs to sport, music, clubs and friends; the evening to a meal, prep and the ordinary business of living together. It is a full life, and for many students it is the first time they have had one outside their family.

It is also where a great deal of the growing up happens. Sharing a room, settling a disagreement, remembering your own things, helping someone younger — none of this appears on a timetable, and all of it matters as much as the timetable does.

Most of our students arrive having always been helped. They leave having been the one who helps.

The rhythm of the week

Mornings

Rising, washing and breakfast together, then assembly and lessons with everyone else.

Afternoons

Sport, music, clubs and free time on campus once lessons finish.

Evening prep

A supervised study period with staff available — the habit that carries students through examinations.

Dorm life

Shared rooms, shared chores and the friendships that come from living alongside one another.

Chapel & devotions

Evening devotions and Sunday worship as part of the boarding week.

Weekends

Organised activities, sport, music, service projects and rest.

Questions about boarding student life?

Call the school office — boarding questions are best answered by someone who is on campus every day.

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