Day Boarding

Available for Years 5-8 and Years 10-12 at Corio Campus

  • From 8.20am to 8.30pm Monday-Thursday (6.15pm on Friday
  • Sport or activity each afternoon
  • Includes lunch, dinner and supervised study in Day Houses with shared and group study facilities
  • Occasional overnight stays or short term boarding accommodation available

Students can experience many of the benefits of boarding as day boarders. Day Boarding is available to students from Years 5-8 in the Middle School and Years 10-12 in the Senior School, both located at Corio. Many parents and students consider day boarding to be 'the best of both worlds.'

All day boarders are members of a house community - either Fraser or Allen in the Senior School, or Highton or Otway in the Middle School. Each day boarding house has the full facilities of a boarding house, but without dormitories. There are kitchen facilities for making warm drinks and snacks and a common/games room. In addition, Year 12 students have their own study room, Year 11s have twin-share studies, and the younger students have study rooms with individual cubicles.

A typical day for Day Boarders

Day Boarders generally arrive by 8.20am for House Assembly. Following this, students have study time or Chapel or music practice before classes start at 9.00am.

All staff and students - Boarders and Day Boarders - enjoy a hot lunch and salad bar in the Dining Hall every day.

Classes finish at 3.30pm each day (except Wednesday when they finish at 1.10pm to allow for extended afternoon sport) and students then participate in sports and activities. Dinner is served at around 5.40pm, followed by a second House Assembly at 6.50pm. Supervised evening study ('Prep) begins at 7.00pm. The day ends for day boarders at 8.30pm or 6.15pm on Fridays.

Day Boarding is very similar to Full Boarding, except that students return home in the evening, having completed much of their homework.

At weekends, Day Boarders come to the School for team sports, to use the libraries, the computer resource centres and the Art and Music Schools or to discuss their work with the many teachers who reside on campus.

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