With significant experience of boarding in the UK, we have a strong belief in the special value a boarding education offers. At the Prince of Wales Island International School there is full, seven days-a-week boarding, but also weekly boarding (where the pupil lives in the School Monday to Friday, returning home at weekends) and flexi-boarding, when (space permitting) pupils can stay for just one or several nights during any given week.
We know that children who board rapidly become more self-sufficient and independent, that they enjoy their time at school surrounded by their friends and classmates, and the extended access to staff and facilities in School enables them easily to have an enriched and more complete experience of all that the Prince of Wales Island International School has to offer. Weekly boarding, in many ways, is an ideal compromise, providing a structured time at school, with vastly reduced travel times and costs, and regular time at home at weekends.
We also recognise that, for some, the challenge of living away from home may be daunting With the careful and gentle support of the residential staff, matrons, housemasters and housemistresses and tutors, the settling in period will soon pass, and any problems can be detected and dealt with without fuss.
The boarding accommodation is spacious and well designed. Boys and girls will be accommodated in separate buildings, largely in double rooms, though some single accommodation will be available for senior pupils.
Details of the costs of boarding are given on the page detailing
School Fees.