My daughter is currently boarding for senior school; she is a weekly boarder so most weekends she comes home after her sporting commitments on Saturdays and goes back Sunday nights or Monday mornings. She loves boarding and is having a great time.
We are moving her after her GCSEs next year to a new school, but our issue is that we do not know whether we can afford the full boarding fees at the new school with the VAT policy. As she is enjoying it, we don’t want to pull her from boarding completely and have her become a day girl, so we are wondering whether flexi-boarding is a good mid point.
She is keen to weekly/full board again: she has made most of her friends through boarding, has a good relationship with the teachers and enjoys the activities and being able to stay in school for weekends after sport if she wants.
She is concerned (as am I) that if she flexi boards it will be harder to integrate into the house and she is worried about being at a new school, making new friends while being on the edge of things in boarding.
I am keen to know whether anyone has had experience with flex-boarding or has opinions either way. For context, flexi-boarding is offered in all houses at her new school and there is around 3 per year in each house.