A Rough Guide to the Middle School

feeding frenzy for the grazing students would result in congestion, however all happens in respectable time thanks to the three toasters at hand. The hot crumpets, waffles and toast that follow are guzzled down as quickly as they came about, with the kitchen emptying in time for the next lesson, leaving no evidence that a hoard of hungry teenagers had just exited (that is until someone checks the waffle cupboard). After the school day ends, the boarders encounter another food- based ritual in the form of 5 o’clock teas, where the most prized sandwiches hurriedly disappear in the hands of the chanting victor, leaving the poor tutor on duty with the less desirable egg and cress or tuna mayonnaise to choose from! At house teas you can see all the variety of school life from muddy CCF cadets through to exhausted rowers who have just done an ergo test! At this point the boarders have a couple of hours to relax in their rooms, go to the gym, play indoor football or wander into town before making their way to dinner where boarders in other houses catch up on the latest news. Dinner, at 615pm, is followed quickly by registration where students are updated on house-related news and evening arrangements as well as, of course, who is on washing up duty, after which the two