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The Boarding School experience
part from the fact that you and your child will miss each other, there are several benefits that your child would gain from boarding. Boarding school provides a boost in self confidence for students and helps develop their independence and self management skills while the school still providing a safety net of school-organised routines and schedules. Studies also suggest that boarding provides an added edge in academic performance, since the routines in a boarding house provide for a structured study roster and tend to result in greater time spent on homework, revision and study during these vital final years. The ‘traditional’ boarding experience is a residential boarding school, where students live together in a school-run boarding facility with shared or single bedrooms and shared living spaces. There are house parents to provide supervision, assist students, help resolve issues and answer queries – be they academic or personal. Meals, housekeeping and study support are usually included and the boarding houses are usually located either within the school grounds, or very close to the day school. Previously, parents preferred to ‘send the kids home’ so that they could finish their schooling in the country where they would likely attend university. However, given the long-term nature of some relocations these days, the child’s ‘home’ country may actually be as foreign to them as staying in Asia, where there are also several excellent boarding schools that provide the effect of ‘traditional’ residential boarding experience. Especially for the younger students one obvious benefit is that they can visit their parents and siblings at home more often. In both cases, the unique qualities of attending a boarding school lies in the complete integration between the life of the student in class and the life of he student after class. This seamless transition in the everyday life of the boarding school student from one sphere to the other gives a maximum cohesion that ordinary day schools will never be able to match no matter how extensive an extra curricular programme they might establish. This is one of the reasons why boarding schools are often better prepared for further education and a life on their own in the surrounding society than day school students.
Stenhus Kostskole Sports College Stenhus Kostskole Boarding School and Gymnasium is the right place if interested in sports, the Sports College is based on both ambitious training and education and all students are receiving customized training programs. Different options of college Football College Coaches at the Football College are the former major league players Morten Hamm and Morten Rutkjær.They both have UEFA A coach license and coaches at Northwest FC Sports College (elementary education). Both have worked with various Danish football elite teams. • Football College from 8th to 10th class (boys) Students live at Stenhus Boarding School where education and training are combined in a professional and ambitious environment. • Football College at Stenhus High School (boys and girls) Students live at Stenhus Boarding School and study at the high school. Basketball College Coaches are Trine Tims and Jesper Sørensen who are both former national team players and now coaches at Stenhus Basketball College. Trine Tims was between Nov 2007 and Dec 2009 the coach of the women's national team in basketball. • Basketball College (boys and girls and high school students only) Students live at Stenhus Boarding School and study at the high school. Badminton College Christian Møller Madsen, former elite player, is one of the coaches at the Badminton College. • Badminton College (boys and girls and high school students only) Students live at Stenhus Boarding School and study at the high school. Stenhus Kostskole DK-4300 Holbæk Phone: +45 59 43 02 69 E-mail: admin@stenhus.dk Website: www.stenhus.dk
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