Day Students
Our day students play a full part in every area of school life: leaving at the end of the day will not prevent your daughter from benefitting from the Benenden experience! Watch the video below to discover a day in the life of a day student.
Life as a day
student
Day students are fully immersed in the academic, co-curricular and personal and professional elements of our Complete Education. Being affiliated to a boarding house means they benefit from the pastoral care and close friendships that are hallmarks of the boarding programme.
A day student is a member of a House in the same way as a boarder. The House, run by a highly experienced team of staff led by the Housemistress/Housemaster, acts as a day student’s home away from home while they are at Benenden. The House is also their base during the day, where they can work or socialise at lunchtime or after lessons.
Benenden only has a small number of day students joining each year – usually in the Fourth (Year 7), Lower Fifth (Year 9) and Six One (Year 12) – so we can ensure they enjoy the personalised care and attention across all areas of school life for which Benenden is so renowned.
Your daughter will be one of a handful of students joining a House, which means the teachers, boarding staff and their new friends quickly get to know them very well. Being fully integrated into the House system will enable them to forge friendships with pupils across the House, not just their own year group.
Bus
Routes
We operate a daily bus route between Tonbridge and Benenden School, stopping at Tunbridge Wells Station and in Goudhurst.
1. Tonbridge Station – Tunbridge Wells Station – Goudhurst Primary School – Benenden School
The return service leaves Benenden School at 5.30pm Monday to Friday other than for half terms and exeats when the transport leaves at 12.45pm.
The following routes may be available on request, and will take one full term’s notice to arrange:
2. Staplehurst Station – Benenden School
3. Mayfield Memorial Hall – Greyhound Car Park Wadhurst – Ticehurst Village Hall – Waitrose Hawkhurst – Benenden School
Our Bus Brochure has full details of timings and stops.
Please speak with our Admissions team for more information, on 01580 240592 or registry@benenden.school.
