International students

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Boarding : International Students

Welcome to Campbell College

Campbell College takes its name from a wealthy Ulster linen merchant, Henry James Campbell, who provided the funds for its foundation towards the end of the 19th century, when it established as a school for boys from Presbyterian families and organised along essentially the same lines as major public schools in England and Scotland at the time. It remains an academically selective voluntary grammar school for boys who now come from all kinds of religious backgrounds and from none.

There are currently over 900 boys in the senior school and 235 in the Junior School, which provides for boys aged 3 to 11; the College is situated in a 100 acre wooded estate in the suburbs of Belfast. Boarding for girls in the Sixth Form is available from September 2012.

Boarding has been a significant aspect of the College’s provision from its foundation. Today, boarding remains an essential part of the College and boarding numbers have grown significantly in the past five years, numbers currently stand at 118 and new state of the art accommodation increases capacity to 165 in September 2012.

As an HMC School, Campbell aims to promote all personalities,all talents and interests and to inculcate a culture of mutual trust. Academic study is vitally important to this school and all pupils are expected to reach for high grades, but Campbell’s view of education celebrates the creative, physical and spiritual as well as the intellectual. Above all, we want boys to leave the school with an assured set of values, we want them to believe they can make a difference in society; we want boys to leave the school with things that are going to matter to them for the rest of their lives.

No school may better than its staff and in the most recent Education and Training Inspectorate
inspection of Campbell in April 2009, the report identified the hardworking and committed teachers and the diverse range of activities they provide to enhance the pupils’ learning experiences beyond the classroom. By
whatever measure employed, the public examination results that emerge from the grammar school system in Northern Ireland are consistently at the top of all league tables.

The competitive education system in Northern Ireland fosters an environment where expectations of pupils are high and consistently good outcomes are required if a school is to remain viable. Allied to these educational benefits is the extraordinary value the College provides, fees for full boarding stand at £10,951 per annum for EU pupils.