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Bishopstrow College, Warminster

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Year of foundation: 2006
Address: Bishopstrow, Warminster, Wiltshire BA12 9HU
Location: Bishopstrow College occupies an 8 acre campus in the green South West of England. The school is conveniently situated halfway between the university city of Bath and the historic market town of Salisbury
Campus size: 32,375 m2
Number of students: up to 85 per term
Number of boarders: 100%
Number of international students: 100%
Number of students from Germany: 1 to 3 per term
Ratio girls/boys in %: 50/50
Ratio tutors/students: 1/8 for English classes, 1/12 for subject classes
School type: International study centre and college, specialising in preparing girls and boys, aged 7 to 17 years, for entering a British top boarding school. Summer school.
Graduation: IGCSE
Specific features: Because Bishopstrow College is a very small school, the class sizes are also small. The school sets great value upon a personal pastoral care of its students. Generally speaking Bishopstrow College is characterised by a family atmosphere.
Accommodation: The school has three boarding homes: one for the younger schoolgirls and -boys, one for the older female students and another one for the older male students. The older students are accommodated in two-bed rooms, while the younger schoolgirls and -boys share four-bed or five-bed rooms. Some of the rooms have ensuite facilities. All boarding houses have a common room and a kitchen.
Foreign languages: German, French
Elective subjects: further mathematics, statistics, German, French, debating society, photography, singing, drama, arts and crafts, model making etc.
Facilities/offers: eight classrooms with interactive monitors, IT suite with 16 PCs, assembly room, science lab, library, three common rooms with snooker tables and table tennis tables, multi use playing fields with all weather court
Range of sports: football, basketball, handball, rugby, cricket, hockey, netball, rounders, softball, dodge ball, athletics, swimming, tennis, table tennis, badminton, mountain climbing, coasteering, canoeing, snooker
Fee: 10,800 £ per term resp. 32,400 £ per school year
5,500 £ for a five week academic summer programme
   
School prospectus as a pdf-file  
Students‘ testimonials as a pdf-file  
Link to the school website: http://www.bishopstrow.com
   
Pictures:  
  • Barrow House, a boarding home of Bishopstrow College
  • Modern school building of Bishopstrow College
  • Two-bed room at Bishopstrow College
  • Students at the science lab
  • Schoolboy on the piano
  • School students when hill climbing
  • School students with sports equipment
  • Cricket team of Bishopstrow College with some advisors
  • Winners of the sports day at Bishopstrow College
  • Five a side football
  • The canoeists of Bishopstrow College
  • Schoolboy with face painting