Boarding Life (Grade 9-12)

"The Boarding Life Programme is an integral component of the Appleby College experience. The boarding programme prepares students for university life and promotes understanding, empathy and inclusion, while encouraging meaningful relationships with a diverse group of students from across the globe. The friendships, connections and memories that are made are sure to stay with the students forever."

Luke van der Hulst
Director, Boarding Life and Teacher, Health & Physical Education

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Welcome to Boarding Life

An Integral component of The Appleby College Experience

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Boarding life at Appleby College offers a diverse and inclusive community where students build lasting friendships across four houses—Baillie, Colley, Walker, and Powell’s.Students enjoy intramural sports, recreational activities, life skills sessions, and house competitions. Events like Homecoming and Camp Appleby bring together students, alumni, and families, fostering strong relationships and mutual respect.

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Fostering Lifelong Connections.

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Appleby’s boarding program builds global connections, fosters inclusion, and prepares students for university life.

A Day in the Life

Preparing students for university life while encouraging meaningful relationships.

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From morning to evening, Appleby’s Boarding Life programme equips students with opportunities for growth! While engaging in academic, social, cultural and personal growth opportunities students gain life skills laying a solid foundation for adulthood: accountability, communication, time management, conflict resolution, understanding of others, collaboration, respect, self-discipline and confidence.

Where Our Boarders are From

Welcoming students from around the globe.

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Our boarding community brings together more than 270 students from over 40 nationalities and cultures. While living together in one of Appleby’s four Boarding Houses, students learn to embrace and value cultural differences through daily interactions with fellow students from different countries.