Creative Arts

Music is an area where British boarding schools really do excel, offering first class teaching, excellent facilities, and myriad opportunities to develop performance skills in some inspiring venues.

As with so many of these blogs focussing on one aspect of life in UK schools, we only have space to share a few examples, but here are some of our top British boarding schools for dance that didn’t feature in our previous blog on the subject.

Following on from our recent blog about Art, here is some information about the British boarding schools that are best for Textiles.

Our answer to the question, “which British boarding schools are good for art?”, could be very long because the facilities and teaching at most UK boarding schools is exceptional. For the purposes of this short blog, however, we have narrowed it down to a few of our “go-tos” for artistic students.

Creative arts are an important part of life at just about all the schools we work with. To give you a flavour of the range and quality of shows produced, here is a small selection of what our British boarding schools are performing this year.

Last weekend Stonar School, the British boarding school in southwest England, shared some of its students’ excellent artwork with the public at an exhibition in Bath. 

A key takeaway for Neil when he visited last year was the enthusiasm and ambition of the teachers, and here’s just one example – see how Queen Margaret’s School inspires its musicians.

Did you know that, just like exercise, singing is good for you? Any singing can lift your mood, while singing in a group could even improve your mental health and boost your immune system. All our partner schools have brilliant provision for the full range of music, and here we are focussing on the best British boarding schools for singing in a choir.

We are consistently impressed by the breadth of talent displayed by the children we help place in English boarding schools. Whether sporty, artistic, musical, or often all three, it helps us focus on the schools that have those particular strengths. While the nature of independent boarding schools in England means that most are well equipped and resourced to support a wide variety of talents, when it comes to music, for example, there are a few that immediately spring to mind.

One of the many things to recommend education at boarding school in England is the sector’s provision for the Arts. As life in our British schools resembled something a bit more normal last term, it was great to receive some accounts of their return to live performance.