COMFORT
Living the Boarding School Life!
Choosing to study with Harrow School Short Courses means you will have a taste of the life of a full time boarding student at one of the UK’s top boarding schools.
You will eat in the School dining hall, have lessons in their classrooms and enjoy all of the onsite activities and facilities on offer to students year round. Whether you stay with Harrow School Short Courses for two weeks or four weeks, these boarding houses are designed with teenage students in mind and will quickly make you feel at ease in your new ‘home-from-home’.
Summer students at Harrow School eat breakfast, lunch and supper in the Shepherd Churchill Dining Hall. We offer a wide choice of fresh food, with two main meat courses, a vegetarian option, soup, a salad bar, fresh fruit and pudding, all prepared on-site by Harrow School’s own in-house catering team. Some popular dishes include Katsu chicken curry, Asian salmon with julienne of vegetables, homemade meatballs with linguine, coconut chicken curry, chicken tikka masala with poppadoms and mango chutney, roast beef/pork/chicken/lamb with all the trimmings, homemade beer-battered haddock, teriyaki lamb, lemon-zested turkey escalope, BBQ spare rib chop, chicken Kiev, and southern fried chicken (the boys’ absolute favourite!). In addition, students can buy snacks from the Hill Cafe.
There are no additional costs for special dietary requirements. Example menu which also highlights gluten free, halal, vegan, vegetarian food can be seen on the link below:
Click here for an example menu from Harrow School’s catering team.
Accommodation facts
- Senior girls and boys are accommodated in separate boarding houses. Junior boys and girls (9-11) are in the same boarding house but split by floors.
- The Houses are securely locked at all times and only the students and members of staff have access
- Each room has a safe for valuables
- The Houses have single or twin bedrooms, which are not locked due to Health & Safety regulations
- In each boarding house, there is a senior member of staff who looks after the students in the evenings and is on duty throughout the night
- There are plenty of private shower facilities and bathrooms located throughout the boarding houses
- Each House has at least one TV room and usually there is a games room for table tennis etc
- Students’ clothes can be cleaned for free via the School’s laundry service once a week. All bed linen is provided and is laundered once a week
- One towel is provided
- Student bedrooms are cleaned every day Monday to Friday. Communal areas and bathrooms are cleaned every day Monday to Sunday.
- Students are expected to keep their rooms tidy
If you are travelling with a friend, please state on your application if you would like to share a room. We cannot guarantee students will share a room, but we will do our best to try and accommodate your request.
Click here for further details of the Harrow School Boarding Houses.
