Boarding activities

Boarding activities

Boarding activities at Kilgraston can be fun and fast-paced, offer a chance to unwind or somewhere in-between. Once school is finished, we offer a schedule of events for our boarders with sight-seeing trips around Scotland interspersed with more relaxing activities in-school. So to keep our boarders entertained, we recently organised a Murder Mystery night.

Channelling their inner Sherlock Holmes, our teams had to solve the mystery of what happened to Baroness Arabella Porkingon III, and who should claim her inheritance.

It was a night straight out of an Agatha Christie novel, with each student taking on the role of a colourful character. Each character had a key clue to the mystery, and key information that they had to discover from one another. They had to question each other to discover the information, before contributing what they found out in the final denouement.

A big thank you to all the students who participated, and put so much effort into dressing up as their character. A special mention must be given to our very own Chaplain, Mr Allaker, who made a very dramatic confession when he was revealed to be the villain of the night!

You can find out more about boarding activities and what it’s like to board by listening to Libby’s story, you can watch this here.

Kilgraston’s boarding activities also featured recently in the Daily Telegraph. Following a ballot amongst our boarders, pupils opted to bring back traditional games such as tag and rounders rather than quizzes or film nights. In the article, Mrs MacGinty said: “We were very surprised by the answer. They voted to organise traditional games more commonly found in playgrounds when I was a child. Girls of all ages love them. They’re now laughing together, working as a team, enjoying the competitive nature without match pressure.”

You can read the article by registering at the Daily Telegraph here.