Outstanding Boarding | Cobham | ACS International Schools

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Our boarding houses have a nurturing, inclusive atmosphere, providing our students with a true ‘home away from home’.

Jennifer Overton, Head of Boarding

Experience truly international boarding

As part of an increasingly mobile world, the ACS Cobham Boarding House has established itself as a genuine champion of internationalism, with students representing more than 30 countries. We are proud of our multicultural identity, and celebrate the things that make us different as an integral part of boarding life.

Expert residential house parents and nurse ensure our students have the constant support, guidance, and care to be happy, inspired, and ready to make their mark on the world. We see student achievement as an individual goal. Academic success in the renowned International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) and Advanced Placement (AP) ensures our boarders can attend the university of their choice anywhere in the world.

Success in sports, the performing and creative arts, in leadership, growth and responsibility empowers all to become well-rounded and well-grounded individuals. Our outstanding residency sits within a secure, thriving, 128-acre campus full of study, creative, and recreational facilities. A multi-million pound refurbishment of the existing boarding house Fields is now complete and features a new walk-in medical centre with a fully-trained medical team.

Active Support

Our resident House Parents, identify and promote each student’s learning skills, monitor and guide academic progress, and deal promptly and sympathetically with any personal situation that may arise. All our students feel respected as individuals, and our expert staff actively support their personal, social, and educational development. Our team is strengthened by resident teacher/advisors, the Boarding Nurse, a School Counsellor, and our student Peer Group.

We understand the importance of providing a balanced and full school life, which is why weekend trips are integreted into the annual schedule, and run every weekend throughout each semester.

Pastoral Care

Our aim here is to ensure teachers and parents work closer together to better progress each child's academic and social development through the sharing of information, concerns, hopes, and plans.

Activities

Our boarders engage in a host of weekend and after-school activities, from drama and music production, through competitive sports, to school committees and local and global outreach projects.

Woodlands House

Our new senior boarding house, for students aged 16-18, opened in 2017. It provides world-class accommodation for 113 students, with separate areas for boys and girls. Grade 11 students all share substantial twin ensuite rooms, while every Grade 12 student has their own single ensuite room with study area.

The contemporary design and layout of Woodlands house extends over four floors with high levels of natural light and ventilation, and commanding views across our campus. There is a triple-height atrium, multiple social areas, kitchenettes, lounges and study areas, and extensive landscaped areas and a BBQ.

Separate accommodation for boys and girls
Residential House Parents
Medical Centre with nurse
High levels of natural light and ventilation
Contemporary design and layout
Elegant bedrooms with ample storage and en suite facilities

Multiple social areas including cinema room
Opportunities for student personalisation
Triple-height atrium
Balconies overlooking the surrounding woodlands
Extensive landscaped areas featuring BBQ and social spaces
Built to be energy efficient

Fields House

Fields is our junior boarding house for students aged 12-16. Following a multi-million pound refurbishment in 2018, the facilities rank among the best in the UK, providing premium accommodation for over 110 students.

Boys and girls have separate wings, with shared common rooms, including grade-specific social areas to help students bond with peers from their own age group.

All students share twin bedrooms with someone of the same age but different nationality, to encourage cross-cultural friendships and international diversity. Our most popular rooms, usually reserved for older students, have a unique, split-level upstairs-downstairs layout.

What our boarders have to say

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Meet Elee: Grade 9 Boarder at ACS Cobham

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Meet Nia: Grade 10 Boarder at ACS Cobham

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Meet Pari: Grade 11 Boarder at ACS Cobham

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Meet Sasha: Grade 11 Boarder at ACS Cobham

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Meet Sam: Grade 11 Boarder at ACS Cobham

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Meet Yuki: Grade 10 Boarder at ACS Cobham

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Chris, ACS Cobham Boarder, sat with his friends in school canteen.

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Sasha, ACS Cobham Boarder, sat with a friend in the school canteen.

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Yuki, ACS Cobham Boarder, playing the piano.

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Boarding students walking outside on the campus grounds.

I was worried about boarding school as I'm quite shy, but everyone made me feel so welcome straight away. I love it here.

Nia, Grade 10

We have our own athletics track, golf course, 6 soccer pitches, rugby pitches, swimming pool, weight training facility and three different gymnasiums. Its an amazing school.

Elee, Grade 9

ACS Cobham Boarding

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Sport Curriculum

ACS Cobham runs an extensive athletic programme fielding Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Middle School teams. Our athletes compete against other international schools in the UK, Europe, and Africa. Through sports, students take responsibility for personal growth, and develop integrity, commitment and dedication.

Arts Curriculum

The arts are often the most emotive way of communicating profound ideas. In our international community a multitude of displays, exhibitions and performances provide all of our students with a ‘voice’ to explore and broadcast experiences and perspectives

High School Curriculum

While many graduates continue their studies at top universities in the United States, the UK and around the world, ACS Cobham is most proud of the fact that it enables students to attend a top choi

Middle School Curriculum

We align our curriculum to rigorous standards, preparing students to undertake the renowned International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, and/or the Advanced Placement (AP) Diplomas and courses in High

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Boarding Student Experiences

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Kevin from Hong Kong

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Abby from Taiwan

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Chris from UK

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