A home-away-from-home boarding experience awaits. Home for our boarders is The Dairy House and The Barns, our award-winning boarding houses, located within the school’s stunning campus. Just a five minute walk from the main school, our boarding houses sit in a safe and idyllic setting, looking out over the beautiful Suffolk countryside and private woodland.
The full-time, live-in Houseparents and Matron provide 24-hour care, and an exciting evening and weekend activities programme keep our boarders happy and encourage the flourishing of solid friendships. The school’s numerous facilities, including a 25m indoor heated swimming pool, fitness suite, tennis courts and cinema room, are available for boarding students to use in their free time. Home for our boarders is The Barns and The Dairy House, which are both located a short walk from the main school. Boarders at Ipswich High School live in an idyllic and safe setting, well connected to social opportunities in the nearby town of Ipswich just five miles away. Equally, they can enjoy exploring the rest of the UK as the school is just one hour from central London and an hour from Cambridge.
In, we won the Boarding Schools’ Association Award for ‘Best Boarding House Extension or Refurbishment’ which recognises how much hard work has been put into creating an extraordinary accommodation and experience for our boarding pupils.
The Barns is our brand new boarding house, offering high-end, hotel-standard interiors. Boarding here means you will be guaranteed a single ensuite or twin ensuite room. This section of our boarding offer also includes a large open plan social space with a contemporary kitchen, a stylish cinema room and a cosy quiet room.
The Dairy House is our picturesque Grade II listed boarding house, which has been sympathetically renovated to provide comfortable and homely accommodation comprising twin and single rooms, as well as a kitchen and living spaces.
The happiness of our pupils is at the forefront of everything we do and the boarding experience at Ipswich High School has been curated to ensure each pupil gets the most from their time with us. A home-away-from-home boarding experience awaits. The full-time, live-in Houseparents and Matron provide 24-hour care, along with our team of dedicated duty tutors.
Full-time Boarding
We offer full-time boarding in The Dairy from Year 7 and upwards. Each boarding pupil has their own bed space and personal storage, which is theirs for the whole academic year. The fee includes all meals, accommodation, laundry and 24-hour care by residential house staff.
Weekly Boarding
Weekly boarders will stay at The Dairy for five nights each week during term time, arriving on a Sunday evening and leaving after school on a Friday to go home at weekends. On request and with approval, weekly boarders may stay overnight at weekends on occasion.
Flexible Boarding
Flexible boarding is offered for those pupils who would like to board on a more casual basis.
As we have no Saturday school, we are able to make the most of the day and take advantage of our excellent location.
Every Saturday there is an offer of a local afternoon activity or a full day trip, ranging from a visit to the local cinema or a trip to the beach, to an exciting day at Harry Potter Studios or a visit to Cambridge. On a Saturday evening there is always a social event to give pupils the chance to spend quality time together.
Sundays allow time to enjoy the outstanding sports facilities and grounds and to spend some quiet time catching up with friends and completing homework.
Not included in the formal programme, is also the opportunity to undertake the following activities locally: skiing or use of the golf driving range at Suffolk Leisure Park; indoor climbing at Avid Climbing Centre; participating in our on-site hockey club; learning sailing or paddle sports at Alton Water; joining a local performing arts group.
Our Houseparents and Matron organise evening activities for our boarding pupils to enjoy each night. These include:
EAL: English as an Additional Language
EAL stands for English as an Additional Language. Other common abbreviations are EFL, English as a Foreign Language and ESL, English as a Second Language.
‘An EAL student is a student whose first language is not English. It does not refer to the stage of English these students may be on. Many EAL students speak English on a par to native speakers. The title of EAL encompasses students who are fully bilingual and all those at different stages of learning English.’ EAL students may be:
The EAL department of Ipswich high School exists to support and develop pupils’ appreciation and knowledge of the English language and British Culture, manners and behaviour while maintaining their indebtedness to their own language and culture. The EAL department strives to enable pupils to undertake their studies in all subject areas successfully and to be prepared for further education at university.
In England, the curriculum is almost entirely delivered and assessed through the medium of English language. Therefore, language development must form a key component of a school’s curriculum, so that all pupils can both access the curriculum and successfully demonstrate what they have learnt. Successful learning should therefore translate into every pupil’s ability to articulate their knowledge and understanding appropriately, and the curriculum must take account of this fundamental need. This is particularly important for EAL pupils, as they are developing their competency in English and are therefore less likely to perform to their full potential.
Therefore, as IHS desires to provide effective and sufficiently rapid language development for EAL pupils, the school must establish an EAL department that will ensure any EAL learners falling behind or linguistically disadvantaged pupils at risk of achieving below the national average, get the support and learning development they need.
The EAL department at Ipswich High School strives to identify a student’s needs at the earliest opportunity, recognising the skills they bring to the school and ensuring equality of access to the whole curriculum. This help is a mixture of academic and pastoral and extends to all areas of school life, as these students are learning not only a second language but also how to adapt and thrive in a new culture.
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