Just about every boarding school runs a summer school. This summer programs offer your kids athletics and academical activities in order to enrich their summer vacation.
Attending to this programs children can enjoy their holidays mixing academic programs in the morning with recreational activities on afternoons and weekends.
Academic programs teach subjects as English, Writing, Literature, Maths, Sciences, History or any foreign language. Actually students are no forced to study any of them, they can choose what they like better so learning will be not an awful and boring task.
However fun is bigger in non-academic program: swimming, sailing, kayaking, and canoing in swimming pool or lakes; other  sports as basketball or volleyball, weekend trips  to mountains, culture activities, air opened crafting workshops and even disco music at nights. Students feel their vacations are much more than sun and free time and enjoy every minute they spend at the school.
As a parent, you are sending your child away for the fist time, you will probably be concerned about activities in which he or she is taking part, food is being serving at lunch or even trips school is running. Many of this summer programs are related step by step at boarding school blog so families know what the kids are doing at any moment.
At this point, you  probably think you would have like to know all these before,  to join your child to a summer boarding school. You are on time, many programs are held in August and September you look at our boarding school directory and you can find a good summer program for your children.

As boarding schools are always unforgettable for those who spend there some years of their childhood and they are where a lot of funny, creepy or tender stories come from film industry has look in to them to make many movies during the last decades.
From the oldest ones as 1930 “Abschied” (Farewell) to the last year ” St. Trinitian’s 2 : The Legend of Fritton’s Gold”, which is placed in catholic boarding schools,  there are hundreds of films inspired by the brotherhood spirit of boarding schools.
Ones of the best known films set in boarding schools is “Harry Potter” saga which next movie world premiere is scheduled 2011. Altough it may seem that magic and spellings are the main part of the plot in fact  it is nothing but stories around a very special boarding schools in England.

“Madeleine”,  released in 1998, is based in children’s book series and tell the story of the title character and her child years in  girl boarding school. It’s a really tender film although school conditions has nothing to do with current ones.
Another film related to this educational institutions is the famous drama “Dead poets society”. You could remember  this 1989 Disney production  in which Robin Williams starrs as an unconventional and inspiring English teacher.
Last but not least I could not miss “About Bad Education”. Opening film in 2004 Cannes Festival. Almodovar takes a look at his own adolescence in a catholic boarding school in Spain.