Boarding Options for all Students
The School is run very much as a boarding school and every student will have a chance to board at Bootham. Our full and weekly boarders, who stay at School for seven or six nights per week, make the houses their home. Friends who are day students may stay over and every day student may have two free nights sleep-over per term at a time agreed with the house staff. In addition, day students may board for one or more nights on an ad-hoc basis, space permitting.

Day students can also choose one of our flexible boarding arrangements, where they stay for two or three consecutive nights every week.

For a printed copy of our prospectus, email
office@bootham.york.sch.uk

Bootham as a boarding school

The School has four boarding houses, each of which provides homely and comfortable accommodation in elegant Georgian buildings. Your child's house will depend on his or her age
or gender.

Boarding is all about fun and companionship. Routines such as bedtimes and leave are all worked out on sensible lines with normal family disciplines applied. The girls are all together in the largest house, Rowntree, which in fact covers three Georgian houses with the sixth form girls in their own town house style flats. The boys board in three other similar Georgian houses: Penn for the youngest 11-13 years; Fox for 14 and 15 year olds and Evelyn for the sixth form.

Click on the house name on the left for more information.

Weekend Activities
Boarders have a wide choice of activities and younger pupils particularly are encouraged to make good use of all the opportunities on offer.

On Saturdays there is a normal school timetable in the morning and often games fixtures in the afternoon. Those not involved in fixtures may go into York (with permission from house staff) and then in the evenings there are activities available such as swimming, tennis in the Sports Hall or a film screened in the Lecture Theatre.

Sunday mornings are relaxed and informal with a short Quaker Meeting at 10.00. After Sunday lunch there is a full programme of organised events which is published in the termly calendar.

Throughout the weekend boarders make good use of the School's facilities. There are always plenty of staff around, both in the boarding houses and in the School.