Boarding School News
Dear Boarding Families,
Welcome to 2025! We hope you enjoyed a wonderful Summer holiday with your family!
There have been continual works completed over the two months of holidays, and we are excited for you to see our brand new bathrooms in Lower McDonald, Upper McDonald, and Newman Wings. We also have a new, relocated reception area, a totally made-over courtyard for foot traffic to move with ease to the dining room, and a new lift to take boarders and their luggage to the first floor. We cannot wait to show you all that has happened over the break.
We are looking forward to welcoming our new boarders and their families to boarding for Term 1 on Monday. All returning boarders are to please return on Tuesday and be in-house by 4:00pm to prepare for school commencement on Wednesday.
When arriving at the Boarding House, please enter via Gate 7 and utilise the side door only to drop off your child and their luggage. Please then proceed to the car park to park your car.
Please also ensure your child is school ready upon return, as per the Uniform Policy, with no fake tans, no acrylic nails, no false eyelashes, one natural coloured hair and only one piercing in each ear lobe before their return.
Boarding House staff are here to assist however we can by accompanying boarders on shopping trips for any essentials you were unable to travel back to boarding with such as linen, school shoes and toiletries. We will also assist with uniforms and textbooks.
The first weekend of the term will be a closed weekend for all boarders. This is our Boarder Orientation Weekend with all boarders to be in attendance. This important weekend commences on Friday 31 January, after school and continues through to Sunday with the Boarding House joining all boarding schools in South East Queensland at Wet ‘n Wild for a day of recreational fun and connection. This is a compulsory outing and weekend for all boarders.
All you need to know about boarding, including details of staffing for 2025, locations of year levels, and boarder travel dates, are included in the 2025 Boarding Handbook.
The Boarding Team look forward to welcoming you back to boarding in 2025.
P&F Boarders’ Welcome
You are invited to help welcome our new boarders and their families into the Clayfield College community.
Warm regards,
Mrs Kathryn Searle
Head of Boarding