Explore St Chris International Boarding - Your Home Away from Home

Students at St Chris

International

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Once you’ve experienced the St Chris culture, it’s hard to imagine how else a school should be run.

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  • We are committed to bringing together informed progressive attitudes and the best of modern education
  • We are committed to creating a respectful, supportive, high achieving, and happy community
  • We are committed to providing education that is practically and emotionally relevant to the world around us

A home from home.

St Chris has a long history of warmly welcoming international students. We have a diverse and welcoming student and staff body, and we celebrate the different perspectives our international students bring to our community.

International students can board from Year 7 (or the age of 11) onwards and our boarding community is currently made up of international pupils from China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Nigeria, Spain and the USA.

There are 45 boarders in total, 10 of whom are international students, with the remaining students from the UK. International and UK students live together in our boarding house, Arundale.

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The St Chris Advantage

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A Warm Welcome Guaranteed

We know that arriving in a new country, at a new school, possibly while speaking a second language, can all seem a bit overwhelming, but we will do all we can to help you settle in and feel at home.

St Chris is a very friendly school, and we have a lot of experience in welcoming new pupils and ensuring that they feel settled very quickly.

International students joining St Chris will receive a full induction and be assigned a ‘buddy’ who will help answer any questions in the first few weeks.

If our students need language support, then pupils will also start EAL (English as an Additional Language) lessons as soon as you arrive either in group or one to one lessons.

Our aim is for our international students to be fully immersed in the life of a British boarding school. We want our students to benefit from the wider ethos of St Chris and by being fully immersed in British culture. As such, we only accept a maximum of four international students from any one nationality into each year group.

What do the fees include?

Full boarding fees aim to be inclusive and include all tuition, accommodation, meals on campus, most of the evening and weekend activities, EAL lessons, laundry, wi-fi and study books.

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“As an international boarder I was lucky to be part of the boarding house, which was full of interesting people from all over the world. Living together and being at the same school enabled us to become very close friends and have such a great time.”

St Chris Full Boarder, Year 12

 

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While this process can be exciting as you explore different options and avenues for your child, we also know that some parents find it challenging, particularly for key entry year groups.

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