Boarding at Truro School
Home from home
Being a boarder at Truro School is being part of a genuinely caring, family community where boarders feel that they have come to a home from home. There are about 60 boarders, aged between 11 and 18, and with a real mixture of different nationalities.
Complete flexibility
To support your family’s lifestyle, we have four boarding options for all situations:
- Full boarder: stays at weekends and returns home for the holidays
- Weekly boarder: boards Monday to Friday
- Flexi-boarder: stays over now and again, ideal if Mum or Dad is away or there is a late activity at the school
- Day boarder: joins for meals and prep but is collected in the evening and sleeps at home
Fun and Friends
Everyone makes friends at school, but as a boarder, you get to share more of your time with your friends, doing many different things. With lots of activities at the weekends and in the evening, there is no time to be bored or lonely: paint-balling, trips to the beach, going to the cinema, as well as taking advantage of the facilities on the school campus – an onsite fitness suite, astroturf (for evening football matches) and swimming pool. If you want quiet time, there are plenty of places to find your own space.
Flexi Boarding
If you would like your child to be a flexi boarder for one or more nights, please download the Flexi Boarding form , and send it back using the above address or by email to:
| Contact Details | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tamsin Fisher | Pentreve Junior Mixed Boarding | trs@truroschool.com |
| James Austin | Trennick Senior Boys’ boarding | jka@truroschool.com |
| Claire Murphy | Malvern Senior Girls’ boarding | cem@truroschool.com |
Free Taster Night for all day pupils!
All day pupils are allowed one night in the boarding house during their time at the school – free of charge! For your child to take advantage of this, please contact the House Staff on the contact details below
Activities
And every weekend, the children from all three boarding houses go on trips and participate in activities such as:
- Beach trips and crabbing
- Visit to National Marine Aquarium and other Cornish attractions
- Cycling on the Camel Trail
- Cinema trips
- Ten pin bowling
- Laser questing
- Maize Maze
- Crazy golf
- Meals out
- Theatre trips to Hall
- Perranporth for hot chocolate on the beach
- Shopping in Plymouth
- Surfing and beach volley
- The Seal Sanctuary
- Arts and Crafts Fairs
- Go-karting
- Seeing Plymouth Argyle play
- Paint-balling
- Beach time
- Go-karting
- Meals out to restaurants
- Going to the cinema
Ofsted
In our latest Ofsted inspection, boarding was awarded an overall rating of ‘Good’, which means ‘this aspect of the provision is strong’, and three categories received an ‘Outstanding’ which means ‘this aspect of the provision is of exceptionally high quality’. These categories were:
- Helping children to be healthy
- Helping children make a positive contribution
- Helping children achieve well and enjoy what they do The inspectors said that, “Boarders frequently described boarding in terms of being “home from home”, “a community”, and “a positive experience”. Boarders appreciate the house staff describing them as “genuinely caring” and “very approachable” or “legend”.