Full Boarding and Weekly Boarding

Our full and weekly boarders, who stay at School for between 4 and 7 nights per week, make the houses their home. Friends who are day students may stay over and every day student may have two nights free sleepover per term at a time agreed with the house staff. This is always popular therefore advanced booking with the relevant housemaster/housemistress is essential!

Flexi Boarding

Students can also choose to board for two or three nights every week.

Comments below are from the Independent Schools Inspectorate report on Bootham School, January 2014

“The quality of boarding is excellent. Outcomes for boarders are excellent and are highly effective in enhancing the boarders’ personal development. The school has engendered a powerful sense of community and there is a high emphasis upon contributing to society. The boarding experience is wholly underpinned by the school’s Quaker ethos with its emphasis on respecting the rights of others and on equality. Standards of behaviour, based on mutual respect and concern for others, are high. Boarders are poised, confident and outgoing, engaging readily with one another, their teachers and visitors. Overseas boarders are seamlessly assimilated into the school community. Boarders exhibit great loyalty to the school, and are happy and feel well looked after. Relationships with boarding staff are excellent, and boarders are confident that they have someone they can speak to if they have any concerns. Boarders also value the friendships they make with one another, and actively seek to live in harmony together. Boarders have ready access to information about events in the world outside the school and to local facilities, as appropriate to their age. Boarders contribute to the boarding community both formally and informally, including being able to make known their views about their boarding experience. They report that there is a strong informal support system within each house, with older pupils actively setting out to be role models for younger pupils.

Occasional Boarding for Day Pupils

Subject to space being available in the boarding houses, all students are welcome to come and try out boarding at Bootham. If your child is interested in staying with us then please complete the form below and email to our Director of Boarding and Wellbeing, Beth Steer at Beth.Steer@boothamschool.com who will get in touch as soon as possible. Please aim to leave a week between the request being submitted and the required boarding date.

Each student is welcome to stay with us for two free nights a term, after which a charge of £35 will be added to the school bill for each additional night (up to 8 extra nights a term.) Their stay will include all meals, bedding and access to evening activities.

We look forward to welcoming your child to boarding at Bootham.