Roedean Academy

Classrooms

 All the classrooms are located in the main campus and building area of the school at Roedean. Most classrooms have interactive whiteboards or Smartboards and projectors as well as WiFi access. There is a maximum of 12 students in each General English class. Summer Intensive and Summer Academic Study afternoon classes are smaller (6 for Intensive and 8 for Summer Academic Study).

Dining Hall

The bright and modern dining hall is on the ground floor of one of the boarding houses. Students are expected to queue in an orderly manner for the meals.

We can cater for Gluten or wheat free, Celiac and vegetarian diets. It is important that any dietary requests are made known to us in advance of arrival.

Common Areas

Each boarding house has comfortable common rooms with entertainment and games available. There is also a large hall used for assemblies and sometimes for afternoon activities and evening entertainment. This hall and main common room is used by both boys and girls when having joint activities and social time. 

Internet Facilities

There is WiFi access across the Academy campus.

Mobile Phones

Students can bring their mobile phones but must not use them in class or activities unless directed to. Please note that reception can be erratic due to the location of the school.

Shops

Brighton Marina is only a minute walk away and offers a variety of local, typical British shops and entertainment such as cinema, bowling and mini golf. Students will be supervised when going to the local shops and are only permitted at the discretion of the summer school Management. No students can leave the premises unsupervised.

Academy Shop

A tuck shop (a small shop selling sweets, drinks and other items, outside of usual meal times and snack times) may be open at specified times.

The Academy Office

The EC Academy office is located in the main building near the classrooms and a sub office in one of the boarding houses and is accessible to all students for all enquiries and information or help.

Sports Facilities

There is an excellent sports hall, as well as a number of sports fields. In addition there are hard surface tennis courts and astro turf.

Swimming Pool

There is a heated indoor swimming pool on site for use when a life guard is present at scheduled times.

Laundry

On a specific day each week personal laundry will be collected and washed. It will be returned to the Boarding house the next day to be collected by the students.

Cleaning

Communal areas including bathrooms are cleaned every day. Bedrooms have a deep clean prior to students’ arrival and will be deep cleaned once each week. The deep clean also includes a linen change. Students are encouraged to keep their rooms tidy and to use bins provided.

Towels

Towels are not provided and students should bring their own toiletries.

Safe

All student pocket money and travel documents will be stored in our school safe on arrival. Access will be given at set times to pocket money and all deposits and withdrawals will be recorded. It is vital that the student’s hand in any cash they have on site to be kept safe.

Students have access to a lockable drawer in their room. We cannot take responsibility for items not locked away.

Damage Deposit

£30 will be taken on arrival and returned on departure once damage checks are completed.

Keys

Bedrooms are not lockable at UK boarding schools so no keys are issued. The buildings are secured by a door code which is given to the students on arrival.

Night Security

There is a supervisor at this centre who patrols the grounds and Boarding houses from 11pm to 4am. There is also the usual school security as well as the school CCTV cameras.

Payphones

There are no payphones on campus.

Welfare and Medical

Each Boarding House has a House Parent who builds relationships with all the students in that House. They will be informing the students, waking them up each day, making sure they eat well and are happy and participating. The students can talk to their House Parents about any problems they may have. There will also be a UK state registered nurse visit regularly in case of minor medical issues. If there are significant medical needs we will transport the student to the nearest Doctor or Hospital. The Student/Parent/ Agent is responsible for any off site transport and medical costs in these cases.