Jubilee House House Handbook

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JUBILEE HOUSE HANDBOOK

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A TO Z

Safes: Each pupil has access to a hotel-style safe which they can programme with their own number. It is their responsibility to report if it is not working (almost always due to batteries which will be replaced free of charge). It is also their responsibility to use the safe for valuables. We do rely on trust in a boarding house and it works well, but it is not right or fair to tempt people due to carelessness. School Coach: The Teddies Coach is a school service running from London to Oxford every Sunday evening. Parents can book places online . Shoes : Pupils must have black, polishable leather shoes, which have a proper heel (between 2–5cm). Ballet-type pumps or trainers are not acceptable. It is a good idea to wear your shoes at home before you start school to soften them and wear them in. A packet of blister plasters is a good idea for the first couple of weeks as you get used to walking around the school site. Showers: There are plenty of showers in House! Please bring your own shower gel and shampoo etc. We advise that the pupils shower every day and always after games.

Mobile Phones and Video Call Apps:

Pocket Money: We ask that students have a debit card or a pre loaded credit card which they can use to purchase should they go into Summer Town. As a guide, £10 a week is more than enough for Shells. It is important that this is provided on a card, as they wont have access to their phones to use Apple Pay or Google Pay. Posters: Pupils are encouraged to personalise their bedroom spaces. No posters should be attached to the walls as blu-tack and drawing pins can cause damage. Each room is equipped with a large pinboard and plenty of drawing pins. Please do bring in posters and pictures of family. Rooming: Shells, Fourths and Fifth Formers all have rooms of two in the annex at the side of the house, where each year group has their own floor and on it a kitchen. In Fourth and Fifth Form this is a social space with sofas. We move shell pupils around half term in their first year so they get to share with everyone in house, then from Fourth Form onwards they move each term (sometimes at Exeat in the long Autumn Term). The girls are asked for their sharing preferences in a Microsoft Form at the end of each term. Boarding life is all about learning to live harmoniously with others and so although we will take pupils’ preferences into account we can’t guarantee them!

Mobiles: We restrict pupils’ access to mobile phones depending on the year group. For further details please refer to our Mobile Phone Policy. In order to ensure a healthy relationship with mobile phones, please do consider data limits and parental controls and please do not allow pupils to bring in a second phone. Mobile phones are confiscated if used at the wrong times or inappropriately. Video call apps : Pupils can use video call apps on their school-issued laptops at the following times:

The Shell, Fourth Form and Fifth Forms 8.15 – 8.30am 10.55 – 11.30am 1.05 – 1.55pm From 8.30pm until laptop hand-in time

Lower Sixth 1.05 – 10pm Upper Sixth 7am – 10pm

All pupils have access on the school’s Wi-Fi on the weekends from 12.15pm on Saturday until 9pm on Sunday.

ST EDWARD’S, OXFORD

SEPTEMBER 2025