St Edward's Prospectus 2024

Weekends and Activities

Our weekly boarding arrangements mean that pupils may choose to go home on Saturday afternoons after their commitments, but there is so much going on at weekends that typically around a third of our boarders opt to stay in School. Weekends provide time for sports fixtures, time for rehearsals, time for a change of pace, and a chance to relax with friends and discover the benefits of being at school in a great university city. Weekend activities include ice-skating, trampolining, paintballing, cinema trips, quiz nights, inflatable obstacle courses, BBQs and much, much more. Alternatively, there’s time on Sunday afternoons for the whole family to enjoy the city of Oxford with its many eateries, outstanding architecture and beautiful walks. Beyond the weekend programme, the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, the Combined Cadet Force and the Shell Enrichment programme offer endless opportunities to discover new interests and to feel a sense of accomplishment. A lively programme of trips sees the Shells exploring Oxford at the start of the year and trekking in the Mendip Hills at the end, with opportunities later in their school career for visits to France, Germany, Morocco, New York, Greece – and countless other destinations.

For further details of boarding, day and weekend arrangements, see page 53.

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