We conceptualise of ourselves as a training camp for social skills, and a place of focused studying and learning.
Life at our dorm is tailored to the interests and needs of young people from all walks of life, offering a wide variety of experiences that prepare young people for a successful life in an increasingly complicated world.
The dorm rooms
Our dorm houses a maximum of 58 students, who live in single or double rooms, depending on the current occupancy rate. Each corridor holds five rooms whose occupants are of roughly the same age. Girls and boys live in different corridors. Next to the individual dorm rooms, each corridor has a common room area, a kitchen, toilets, and shower rooms.
There is free wify.
Each room is furnished with a bed, a wardrobe, two desks, and chairs. We leave it up to the students how they want to arrange and adorn their living space to fit their taste and achieve the maximum comfort.
The boarding house also provides two washing machines and driers.
In case students bring along bikes, there is storage space available for those.
A day at the boarding school
7.15 am | Wake-up time (our educators walk around to rouse everyone) |
7.00 - 8.00 am | Breakfast at the dining hall |
8.15 am | First lesson starts |
9.45 bis 10.00 am | Recess, during which boarding school students can get a snack at the canteen |
12.30 am or 13.10 pm | Lunch at the dining hall |
Afterwards: lessons or spare time, depending on age and grade level, participation in optional work groups, clubs and study groups | |
16.10 pm | Last possible lesson ends |
16.15 pm | Optional snacks at the dining hall |
16.30 - 18.00 pm | Obligatory study hall |
18.00 pm | Dinner at the dining hall |
Spare time | |
from 22.00 pm | All students, even those who are of age need to be present at the boarding house. |
Weekends
Each student may decide for themselves on which weekends they want to stay at the boarding school or return home.
The boarding house is generally open each weekend safe for long weekends with a holiday on Monday or Friday. During school holidays, the boarding house is closed and all students have to leave. They return starting 18:00 pm on the night before school resumes and, barring illness or a similar reason for personal leave, must be present and accounted for before their bedtime; 22:00 pm at the latest for the older students.
Spare time
Students may choose from a large range of spare time activities:
Community activities:
- regular board game nights
- discussion groups in comfortable atmosphere
- communal cooking
- going to the cinema together
- afternoon trips to various locations
Spare time amentities:
- common room with table football, billiard, and an air-hockey table
- sports ground including a football field, basketball court with hoops, beach volleyball, and tartan tracks
- access to the school‘s gym and pool
- piano practice room
- TV room
- gym with various appliances
- table tennis
- school laptops at the disposal of students
The wider surroundings offer:
- walks in the nearby forest
- participation or membership in local sports clubs (tennis court abuts school grounds, local marksmanship club, horse riding stables, dance school…)
- the town’s outdoor pool