Boarding School Campus

A typical boarding school is a self-contained community comprising a group of buildings each with its own function. Depending on the size of the school and the land it occupies, the whole campus can resemble a small village with roads and paths connecting the various buildings and garden areas.

The main school building is usually a historical one (often the former the home of a wealthy aristocratic family) and this is generally the administrative heart of the school where the Headmaster's office, and other administrative departments are housed. Classrooms can occupy purpose-built blocks or older buildings converted and equipped with all the facilities expected in a modern school.

Accommodation for the pupils may occupy part of the main school building or classroom buildings or it may be in separate boarding houses. Every school has its own libraries, dining-hall (also known as a refectory), shop (also know as the tuck shop), a chapel where religious services are held, an indoor sports hall, as well as outdoor playing fields, tennis courts and the majority of schools also have their own indoor or outdoor swimming pool.

There is also a sanitorium (san.) or infirmary - a kind of mini clinic where children suffering from minor ailments and the more common childhood diseases are treated and accommodated until the child is well enough to return to his/her boarding house.