Boarding at Rishworth - The Inspection Report

The School has just received its Inspection Report from The Commission for Social Care. It contains comments based on the School’s Boarding Inspection

As expected, the final report from this government body which statutorily inspects independent schools, testifies to the excellence of Rishworth boarding. 

The Report is quite outstanding, with the School receiving the highest rating overall (‘excellent’), and with all of the sections separately assessed receiving the highest rating, except one, which received the second highest.

The CSCI is documented as saying:

“This school provides excellent outcomes for the pupils who use it” 

Rishworth School has a thriving boarding community, which makes up about a fifth to a quarter of the Senior School, where British nationals, some of whose families live abroad and some really quite locally, mix with students from a wide range of other countries (Estonia, Iran, Uzbekistan, Russia, the Far East and so on, as well as a handful from Germany itself).  Through our admissions policy, we are careful to ensure that we remain a very diverse and dynamic community in terms of academic abilities, non-academic interests, and personalities.  Our students are generally balanced and considerate, and radiate happiness and confidence in life generally, achieving very highly indeed relative to their own potential in all fields.  Our latest Independent Schools Inspection Report (which looks at the whole school and not just boarding) describes our pupils as being 'unfailingly courteous' - an extraordinarily rare accolade of which, as you may imagine, we are especially proud!

Our approach to boarding is through the full integration of all boarders within the school community as a whole: we do not have a separate centre for international students.  We do, however, have a specialist English as a Foreign Language Department which, to complement the main curricular subjects studied, provides English lessons specifically tailored to suit the needs of boarders whose first language is not English. There is a full and exciting boarders' activity programme that includes cultural and 'fun' trips away both on designated week-day evenings and at weekends.  The Boarding Houses themselves are delightful: the original character of their lovely, old, stone-built construction has been preserved, whilst, inside, students enjoy all the convenience, comfort and homeliness - and of course safety - of modern living, including wireless and cabled internet/e-mail, accessible from every study bedroom and communal boarding-house area.

The full report can be found at www.csci.org.uk