Windermere School is split across three sites of Lake District National Park landscape. Our Early Years and Junior School occupies the Elleray campus, the Senior School and Sixth Form occupies the Browhead campus, while our private Watersports Centre, Hodge Howe occupies the third. Together these combine to create Windermere School’s truly unique location.

The School has been operating for a number of years as a Royal Yachting Associating (RYA) Training Centre and, in 2018, we were delighted to become an RYA British Youth Sailing Recognised Club, one of only 15 clubs nationwide and the only school in the UK to hold this accreditation.

This new initiative will see the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) work alongside sailing clubs across the country, as it bids to promote grassroots sailing and support junior and youth sailors develop their racing skills. In 2014, Windermere School became the first school in the UK to achieve RYA Champion Club status. RYA Champion Clubs are recognised as being ‘Centres of Excellence’ for junior racing and race training, many forming the very foundation of the British Sailing Teams. 

This status sets apart those sailing clubs, such as Windermere School, which demonstrate a commitment to the development of junior and youth racing and race training, delivered in a safe and fun environment. Several Windermere School students have won major championships in various classes. Graeme Rowe is the RYA Principal and Chief Sailing Instructor at Windermere School and has been race coaching for almost twenty years. 

“British Youth Sailing status demonstrates our continued commitment to bringing through talented race sailors. Several students have won national titles over the last few years and I have every confidence that more will follow.” Graeme Rowe