The time children and young people spend in a boarding school is a very special experience. Sharing the daily routine with others allows them to discover a dimension of friendship and communal living which is unattainable at home.
How life in a boarding context should be shaped so that young people can become ever more conscious of their personality has been set out by Kurt Hahn in 1930. In his ‘Seven Laws of Salem’ Hahn unites the ideas that had led to the foundation of Salem with by then ten years of practical experience with his young boarding school. And daily boarding life today still follows the same principles.
The students learn to be independent from an early age. They have a mentor at their side to answer all their questions. And the clear rules of the school also support them in structuring their daily routine. The tasks of the mentor, the daily timetable, and the rules, vary for each age group. In the following pages we shall therefore describe life in the respective school buildings:
