Living Like Harry Potter - A Day At Boarding School 

Great school, only beautiful memories remain from my 6 years of study at Sherborne. This school offers much more freedom compared to other boarding schools as boarding houses are scattered around the town and you can go to the shops and roam around freely in the town.

I know the discipline thing is often what people hate on boarding school for, but as a massive procrastinator I kind of envy being forced to study and exercise and go to bed at the same time each day lol

Any boarding school makes me think of an orphanage. Time spent with family is precious and not something you can get back.

I went to an all girls boarding school from age 10 to 16. It was difficult in my first year but once I adapted to the environment, I looked forward to going back after the holidays. Made lifelong friends there ❤

Boarding school since 8 years old is a bit depressing I think. I think it can be nice for teens or even just secondary school but why would a primary school child need that?

Being educated in Sherborne looks beautiful! However, I believe the school was initially founded in 705 AD (by St Aldhelm), but then re-founded in 1550 after the dissolution of the monasteries. Apparently the oldest continuously operational school in England is “King’s School Canterbury”, which was established all the way back in 597AD! Anyway, thanks for the video.

I showed one of my grandchildren pictures and video of the school I had attended (in the way back when) and she exclaimed...oh you went to Hogwarts Grandma !! I think she has always, since then, been watching me closely for odd behavior.

That boy is so so so handsome, like Cedric from Harry potter.

I'm not used to the culture of boarding school. I think if you are a parent of a son or daughter, I think it is important to be active in your kids life. School is part of the equation, but family and home life is just as important. I would want my future kid to be smart, but I don't want to throw the books where they have to study 12 hour days with very little sleep where it's constantly go go go. Kids sometimes need time to relax. I support people in having active life styles of it's by their own free fill. For me I couldn't go from sunrise to sunset and I'd want to come home to see my family. I wouldn't want a school to raise my children while I become the distant parent. If I was a parent, I feel it is my job to raise my children and be actively involved in their lives. I do support year round school, but there is a time and place where balancing education with fun and other social activities is just as important.

As someone who has been to boarding school, it isn’t as glamorous as perceived

Now this was pleasing. The school looked fantastic. Even though it is so old.

Nice school. Back in highschool, all we ever cared about were girls and parties.😂 It was actually a surprise for me to pass the SAT and finish a degree afterwards.

I respect the discipline of these kids. Oh, God. We're crying just thinking about going on a military training and then there are these kids doing thousands of activity in one day. o7

Well edited! And Mr. Windham (sp?) has some good poise. Thank you for this!

My reaction to this boarding school: "What is this place, Hogwarts?"😂🤣

3:42 the red head boy reminds me of Ron Weasley .

I personally have experience of attending private boy's day school in uk. If you get the similar curriculum i think it's better than boarding school. Spending time with family is a valuable thing for kids growing up. Yet i think state schools are the worst. It's a brutal reality that parent's wealth is descended to their children through education.

I would go there just for the beautiful speaking voice .

Thank you for this. It certainly brings back memories of my schooling days in a boarding school in Switzerland. I went there from the age of 10 y.o to 17 y.o. So many beautiful memories. I absolutely love my time there.

I feel sad that his parents dropped him off at age 8 in an environment so cold and rigid. Why have children if you don’t want to spend time with them, helping them to grow?

totally understand parents who dont want to deal with their kids everyday and then send the kids to boarding schools. Without picking up kids from school, helping them with their homework, making them dinner, those parents have much more freedom to do their lives. Haizz, and sadly it is different from my Asian parent. They are planning to move the family to Australia at their age of 50, take farming and cleaning jobs so that my little brothers can have better education and be taken care of. They could wait until my brothers are a litte bit older and send them to an Australian boarding school, but they just don't. They want to be close to take care of and have connection with their kids.

I love the archetec and history of the school. The Nottingham Girls High School where i work was only founded in the 1860s.....the school next door to ours the Nottingham High School was founded in 1513 👓🎓

I totally stand for parents having the choice of a private or a state education. Still, I truly believe that sending children to a boarding school at the age of 8 is atrocious and should be illegal.

I grew up in the US and I attended public schools. I always lived at home and commuted to school. I have to say that boarding schools seem to be a unique experience. You are taken away of your family and out of your community. Your education is shaped by Sherborne Boarding School community.

Sherborne isn't merely a private boarding school it's a public school. Public schools are the poshest in the UK.

I loved my time at school. Thankfully, we were able to find a school in states that was similar.

boy looks like a Windsor. very handsome, and sweet personality

Beautiful settings, like universities I suppose a lot of these schools were monasteries

Sherborne is a good school, with notable alumni, but it certainly isn't among Britain's oldest schools. There are over 140 schools in Britain older than Sherborne, some almost three times Sherborn's 473 years of age.

Emotional well-being class. Impressive

Woahh... The schedule!

I wish my boarding school was this good

Our daughter spent a year at a Scottish boarding school and despite the tightly scheduled daily routine and the strict rules, it was the best school year of her life. After her Abitur here in Germany, she has now gone to Scotland to study and is absolutely happy with this decision. Unfortunately, there is no thriving private school system here, the state keeps this sector very small. And in the state schools, the few teachers who are suitable for the profession hardly manage to discipline the many badly behaved children in such a way that purposeful teaching can take place.

boarding school has always looked fun to me.

Boarding schools are brilliant educational establishments that unfortunately are very rare now in the U.K. the CCF should be in more schools as well

This is so beautiful. He is lucky to live that lifestyle. Its like a dream for me 🍀😍

I went to a boarding school and I liked some aspects but ultimately I felt it too strict and too limiting. There is no freedom to explore outside of classes or regimented activities (sports, "leisure" activities). There is not enough free time to just hang out and fool around with friends. And the tradition in Britain to send boys and girls to boarding school at 9 or 10 is crazy.

I think boarding school is a great option for families that can afford it. The UK has a long tradition of it and knows how to do it well. I would have preferred boarding school as a teenager. 13-18 are years kids naturally need to start learning more independance and preparing for the world. Some kids given the chance will lean on their parents far too much for far too long and many are left in a state of arrested development well into their 30s or beyond. When I was a teenager my single mother was working 70 hour weeks, sometimes working out of town for a week at a time and only back on weekends. Outside of school I was alone at home (unless with friends) and it wasn't good for me. I decided to move across the country (Canada) at 15 and lived in my sisters in-laws house while going to high school. It wasn't boarding school but it made me more independent, responsible and respectful living away from home with an older couple I didnt know closely. I don't love the idea of sending young kids to boarding school but for some families especially in Military its the best choice.

I think it’s great idea like Harry Potter it would have expanded my world to show that my crappy home life wasn’t how other people lived and that there more choices for careers then was available in my area

Ohh 😯😮! It's Max.

Shuben My daughter’s friend went there and didn’t realise it was pronounced Sherborne until she went to school in nearby Dorchester

Is it just me or the boy at 2:25 looks like Neville

I wish I had this opportunity. It would have helped me to become more independent soon which I couldn't do cause my family always cared for anything and protected me.

Thank you!

Love this tradition ❤

I would have loved to work there 😃

This guy, and any of his mates who went to boarding school at 8 have a lifetime of therapy ahead of them. The only consolation is that he's so rich, at least he can afford it. If you've decided to have kids don't then farm them out to strange old men to raise them.

530 pm - 6pm is not early for dinner.

update: 4:43. He did in fact get his army scholarship, and will be going to sandhurst in the near future!

More freedom? From what I’ve seen most boarding schools give less freedom. Kids have to study at specific times and are only allowed to go leave the boarding house on certain days and for a specific amount of time.

I wonder what thoughts and feelings would come into this boy's head if he was forced to have alone time instead of a constant ferret wheel of activities.

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Is that military training some of the boys are doing like our ROTC or JROTC in the US?

I didn't know that Mufasa's younger brother Scar went to Sherbone!

I went to a private school in Ealing called Manor House and it had etchings on a wooden plank of all the alumni it was quaint and we had Latin classes and wrote with an ink pen and in pot

A future Kingsman 😉

How do they access teacher and or lecturer quality after gcse for teacher placements and retention?

Boarding schools are the worst…. I has been in one and i used to cry often

Been in boarding school since he was eight? Why so long? He spends most of the year without his family. It’s an interesting boarding school .

I think it’s sad that you have kids and never see them. How can there be a strong relationship between kid and parents. Parents who don’t want to raise their children put them in boarding school.

I could understand sending your kid to private school for a better education but I couldn't understand sending them to boarding school. How could you not want your kid to live with you?

Ah I had no military training in highschool, not even in university.

I have been into boarding school for 15 years of my life, it build me differently for life.

13-18 is a very good age to go to a boarding school.

Eton College is in UK England Cambridge University is in GB Britain

wait this guy was the year below me in cothill that's hilarious

Harry Potter looks at this kid and wishes he was like him.

5:41 when you're doing your math homework with a fountain pen.....

Spent 10 years (7-17 )at an elite boarding school up in the Himalayas -if one has a loving family -I wouldn’t recommend it - otherwise it’s okay

Isn't Max Windham English student?

I think campus life is suitable only after high school during graduation. The period of school life should be spent with parents

Harry Potter who is actor character?

Pozdrawiam z klasą oglądamy na angielskim very good video

Glenalmond college in Perthshire. Robbie Coltrane went there, it is in the Scottish Highlands, the chapel ceiling is painted in stars to resemble the night sky, the main hall is modelled on the dinner hall that was used to film Harry Potter, you weren't allowed to go into the woods beside the school because you would very likely fall down the riverbank break your neck or drown, one of the punishments was to go in and clear out all the cigarette ends and such which was considered to be a bit dangerous. The mancipal in post in the 90s recalled JK Rowling coming to visit...

Which school makes me think of trading?

There was nothing like Harry Potter besides the exterior of the school building, itself.

Hey, my name is Max too.

Do the students stay in the school on weekends as well? We don’t have boarding school’s in Hungary (as far as I know) but at the capital and bigger cities 14-18 year olds from the countryside do sometimes live in dorms, but those might even be independent from the school, and only provide accommodation, and you go home for the weekends.

At 8 is crazy, at least 13 ish

Goodness 😄🙏!

Super!!!😊😊😊

Since 8? What use is being rich if the love of a family is not a close one. Each to their own.

Jon Pertwee and John Le Mesurierer went to Sherbourne too

Any relation to the Wyndhams of Dunraven?

I went to a boarding school as well.

wait, isn't this from my Pinterest feed?

Wellcome to bullworth academy

Real-life Ronald Weasley is more like it.

I don’t see quidditch

Great school

You are so lucky that you have a decent education and so privilege, and not need to worry about going to a good university, but most Jo blogs in the uk don’t even have access to the internet let alone a education as the British gov has not kept up with pouring money into education let alone lone built new schools plus what private education does give you the unique opportunity to have a better living standard then normal Jo blogs…

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When you say British cuisine.. What is that exactly ? :D

Id never share a room with anyone

Why have children if you're going to send them away? It's odd to me. I'm sure it's normal for many families, but I couldn't imagine not having my boys at home, going to school together, teaching down the street from their school, watching them play sports, etc. I'm sure there is a point in sending their child there.

How much is tuition and boarding fees.

a very well-behaved and honourable young man

I think thiwrs to much activities but i loved my son to do this

4:32 rememberance day isn't just for the fallen from two world wars...

What if child or teen doesn't want to go boarding school, how does parents deal with it?? Does children and teens communicate with their parents, siblings, and famy?? How about Holiday?