Parents Handbook

MISCELLANEOUS • Wash Bag with Flannel, Soap or Shower gel, Toothbrush, Toothpaste, Shampoo, Deodorant, etc. • Hairbrush/Comb • Padlock and key for locker (please provide 1 spare key in an envelope with your son’s name on it and leave with the Boarding Administrator) • Shoe Cleaning Equipment • Laundry basket for dirty laundry • Zipped washnets for socks and underwear • Alarm Clock • Posters/Pictures and pins for decorating noticeboard • Clothes hangers LAUNDRY A full in-house laundry service is provided. Boarders are asked to observe the following in order to help the laundry staff: All dirty washing should be taken to the laundry room during personal organisation time in the evening or before they go to lessons in the morning. Their socks and underwear should be turned out and separated into light and dark and if possible put into separate wash nets before taken to the laundry. Their shirts should be turned the right way out, sleeves should be rolled down and buttons should be done up. Clean clothing should be collected from the laundry room when students return from lessons in the afternoon and put away promptly into their wardrobe or drawers. Bed linen will be washed fortnightly on a rotating system. Boarders will need to strip their bed in the morning on the designated bedding day and they are expected to make their beds up again with the clean bed linen provided. Every single item of clothing and linen must be clearly marked with the boarder’s full name. We would ask parents to mark clothes in such a place that the name can be easily found by the laundry staff, i.e. the collar or waistband. We would advise against using iron-on labels or using a marker pen and recommend woven labels that are stitched in, as they have proved to be the most durable and reliable method. We would also like to advise parents and their sons that we do not take responsibility for any unmarked clothes handed in to the laundry and we will dispose of anything that remains ‘unclaimed’ at the end of each half-term/term.