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Exploring the World of Boarding Schools

Test your knowledge about boarding schools, their literature, and notable authors associated with this unique educational system.

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1 Jill Murphy's ________ stories.

2 In the United States, boarding schools for students below the age of 13 are called junior boarding schools, and are not as common and not as encouraged as in the United Kingdom and ________.

3 ________'s novel Jeremy at Crale (1927)

4 There is also a huge boarding-school genre literature, mostly uncollected, in British ________ and serials from the 1900s to the 1980s.

5 ________'s Jennings series of children's stories (from 1950)

6 A boarding school is a ________ where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers.

7 Ludwig Bemelmans' ________ series of children's picture books (1939-present)

8 In some countries, such as ________ and Sri Lanka, a number of state schools have boarding facilities.

9 ________'s novel Stalky & Co (1899)

10 Boarding schools and their surrounding settings and situations have become a genre in ________ with its own identifiable conventions.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the campus of Saint-Cyr, Gravure 1690 (pictured), a French military academy founded by Napoleon Bonaparte, used to be a boarding school for girls, Maison royale de Saint-Louis, during the reign of Louis XIV.
  • the first Spanish film shot in English is La residencia, a 1969 horror film about murders in a female-only boarding school.
  • the Holding Institute, now a community center in Laredo, Texas, was formerly a boarding school destroyed in 1954 by Rio Grande floods, relocated, and thereafter closed for financial reasons.
  • Gordonstoun School (pictured) is a Scottish boarding school famed for educating three generations of the British Royal Family, including the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles.
  • Fr. Finn wrote the 1890 novel Tom Playfair, telling the adventures of a 10-year-old at an all-boys Jesuit boarding school, to illustrate his ideal of a genuine Catholic American boy.
  • Clontarf Aboriginal College in Australia has at various points in its history served as an orphanage, a convent, an RAAF training facility, a boarding school and a day school.
  • Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata, India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor.
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