Looking for boarding school for happy but mildly dyspraxic 11 yr old boy, overseas parent.

[expatmum22]

Currently at lovely country prep, with charming very normal but slightly less intelligent sister. i need advice on boarding school (we are English based in Hong Kong) for lovely, intelligent but suspected mildly dyspraxic boy. Loves Rugby but not co-ordinated. Loves Maths and Science, but cannot write fluently. Not at all musical but adores reading and definitely not dyslexic. Have been loath to have him tested as hate the idea of labels. Need full boarding school as we live abroad. He is at Cothill Trust school and loves it. No issues with boarding for him.

Have a look at Ashford School in Kent. Good boarding, rugby and learning support.

Still looking? Forres Sandle Manor in Hampshire. DD1 is a full boarder there and loves it. Loads of children in at the weekends as well, and very flexible if we want to take DD1 out for an odd weekend. We moved her there from her last prep school as she was often the only girl there on a Sunday.

What does his current head say? They should be the primary source of advice.

Leighton Park is nice, good pastoral, etc, but with that or any other school I would want real numbers of how many children are around on Saturday evenings /Sundays as definitions of full boarding seem to vary hugely.

Responding to kazysgirl, be careful about recommending Lord Wandsworth College. From first hand experience, their attitude towards protection of children is flawed. All that glitters isn't gold.

We are looking at Lord Wandsworth Elvetham - would be very interested to understand more about what you mean by their attitude to the protection of children is flawed? ANd all that glitters is not gold? Thx