Academic Life at Sherborne International We offer a traditional boarding school academic programme. All students study English, Mathematics and the Sciences. Other subjects are also included in each course, and more details are provided on these two pages. Junior students (Years J and 9) and Year 10 students get around 27 hours of study each week, and at least seven-and-a-half hours of supervised private study (prep). The one-year GCSE/IGCSE course has about 30 hours of teaching, plus nine hours of prep. Classes start at 08.30 hours, but different courses end their studies at different times each day. For typical school days in the life of juniors and senior students see the next two pages. Saturday mornings are regular teaching mornings up until 12.10 hours, and there is also some supervised prep on Sundays.
Courses at Sherborne International We hope that most of our students will be ready to join a traditional boarding school after about a year at Sherborne International. The main exception to this is for Year 10 students. Those students enrolled into Year 10 are accepted by the School on the strict understanding that they will complete both Year 10 and Year 11 at Sherborne International. These are the two years of the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination. From September 2016 we will also offer Foundation and A’Level courses in main subjects.