Westmorland provides Sixth Form students with the ultimate preparation for life beyond Windermere and arguably the most important year of anyone’s school career.

Windermere was one of the first schools in the country to open a purpose-built co-educational boarding house for the whole of Years 12 and 13. It is a very exciting and stimulating environment in which to spend your last years at school and one where all students are encouraged to start seeing themselves as an individual and everything they do should be an investment in themselves and their own future.

Living in a co-ed house, within flats designed to mimic university halls, will provide its own challenges, but learning tolerance and respect for others, combined with compromise is a key aspect of happy co-existence in Westmorland. Pupils are encouraged to take an increasing amount of responsibility for their own lives in communicating with staff and not relying on parents. The Sixth Form team are very pro-active in supporting students along the pathway towards greater independence and getting on to the next step of life, whatever that may be.

Boarding is a rich and life-affirming experience for our Sixth Form students. We know that they leave us well prepared for the demands and challenges of university life. Their friendships are extraordinarily long-lived. They are independent, resilient, resourceful, cheerful, tolerant, pro-active, kind, capable young men and women who go on to make their mark on the world.

“The opportunities I have had at Windermere School have been a gift. The boarding community is an incredibly supportive, proactive, and exciting place in which everyone can thrive and be the best they can be.”

– Martya B, Former Head Student