Boarding Newsletter - June 15 2020

SIBFORD BOARDING The Newsletter from the Boarding Community June 15th 2020

BOARDING FILM:

FILM STARS

Some stills from the film we released this week - showcasing our excellent student contributions and the beautiful area we are lucky to call home

News as boarding goes temporarily online It has been another busy week in our virtual boarding world, with perhaps the busiest activity on our forums to date showing how strong our community continues to be, despite the strange times we live in. Throughout the week it has been used for entertainment, support, socialising and keeping in touch; it is wonderful that technology enables us to keep so close together in these times.

We were delighted to be able to share our boarding film for the first time this week. There are some truly heartwarming, thoughtful and eloquent contributions from our students, saying what they love about boarding, and I think they are the greatest possible ambassadors for the experience here at Sibford. Themes of 'home' and 'family' were repeated in the contributions from our students and to hear their words is a reminder of what boarding is all about. The film offers an overview of our life here at Sibford - we loved putting it together and we hope you will enjoy watching it too.

COMMUNITY SPIRIT Updates from our online world Our boarding film became 'live' during

Fielding houseparent, Michael has

our Fielding House meeting this week

shared the next song he is learning in

and it was lovely to be able reflect on

Chinese with the students this week. It

our boarding life together with the

is a song with special significance to

students on our video call. With cats

his time as a houseparent - having

meeting one another, some

been sung outside in the sunset by a

impressive creative face mask

large group of students at a leaving

designing, and some mouth-watering

party a couple of years ago. More

food discussions, they are always

information is in the box below.

FRIENDLY CATS AND DELICIOUS RECIPES: The Fielding House meeting saw two cats make one another's acquaintance - with Natalie's climbing her back in eagerness to make a new feline friend. Also pictured is the fabulous Feijoada , shared by India on the forums

entertaining and enlightening catchups - remaining the highlight of the houseparents' week!

It has been a special birthday for Penn houseparent, Sukey, this week and we would like to wish her a very happy birthday!

Amongst all the activity online this week, we have received both delicious images and the recipe for the national dish of Brazil, Feijoada - as made by India at the weekend. She had also followed another recipe posted on our forum, Anna's Kalterhund recipe - and it is lovely to see the students sharing food with one another this way!

答案 In the summer of the party, Michael was travelling with school in Borneo and, after two weeks in the wild, when he got back to the city, this song was playing on the radio in a café. It is reflective of the benefits of living in an international boarding community that this song made him feel at home.

We wish our whole boarding community the very best in these times and reiterate that we are always here for you. To see what we are up to, please visit our Twitter page for regular updates: @SibfordBoarding