well rounded, successful and utterly fulfilled I grew up in the 80s and 90, a time that is
I know more than a little bit about boarding
years for boarding. Boarding has, for
in a small prep school in the South East of
not always remembered as the golden some years now, occasionally been in
the headlines for all the wrong reasons, and from this has grown a one-sided
view of boarding schools, their staff, and even the parents that send their Jemima Edney Head of Boarding and Co-Curricular City of London Freemen’s School
having begun my boarding life aged seven
England. This was the start of a journey that took me through my school years and later into a career in boarding schools and now into boarding leadership.
children to board. This is far from
I came from a musical family, and showed
to the outstanding work that has gone
chose a school that would best support my
balanced, and gives little consideration on in recent years to hugely enhance the experience for boarders today.
So I am on a mission to to tell my own very positive stories of boarding and I hope it may encourage others to share theirs.
some early signs of talent, so my parents
development, despite a 45-minute journey from where we lived. There were schools
closer to home of course as growing up in
the heart of Surrey meant that there was a huge choice of excellent state and
independent schools I could have joined.
