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Boarding Facilities
Approximately two-thirds of the students at Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa are boarders. There are four boarding residences in the College:
Boarding at the IB level is very strongly recommended, and boarding at
all levels of the school is preferred.
 2010 IB 1s, click here to download the room allocation document.
 The Head of Residences
is in charge of the boarding community. Each residence has its own head
of hostel and the larger hostels have one or two deputy heads of hostel.
Each student in the school (whether boarding or not) is assigned a tutor
who counsels them on academic and disciplinary matters and who takes general
pastoral responsibility for the student while they are at school. Students
meet with tutors on a regular basis during the week. Most tutors are engaged
in duties in the hostels where they supervise prep (homework) sessions
and mealtimes and are available for students throughout the day and evening.
Meals are taken together in a central dining facility.
Breakfast, tea, lunch and supper are offered. Vegetarian diets are also
catered for.
Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa sseek to provide a bridging experience for our students, not only between nationalities, races, cultures, but between school and university, and
between living at home and living away from parents. The residential system
is structured to meet the needs of the adolescent in terms of both individual
growth and adaptation to the requirements of the peer group. Hence the
structure moves from the security of the more tightly organised communal
living of the junior residences, through to increased self -discipline
and greater privacy in the middle school residences, with senior students
accepting as great a degree of personal responsibility as is commensurate
with a smooth and effective educational process.
Ekukhuleni
Formarly a Form 2 and 3 boarding facility, Ekukhuleni now houses form 1 students as well. Students are housed
in cubicles (generally called QB's) with two students sharing a room. Boys and girls are accommodated in separate wings.
Esiveni
Esiveni is the Form 4 and 5 hostel. Each student has their own cubicle.
Boys and girls are accommodated in separate wings.
Elangeni and Emhlabeni
 Elangeni has been turned into an IB residence due to high demand for hostel space in IB compared to demand for hostel spaces in form 1. Elangeni offers dormitory accommodation for
both girls and boys. It is the smallest hostel and has a family-like atmosphere
Emhlabeni is the hostel for the IB students and is the largest hostel
on campus. It provides housing to about 130 students. It is situated furthest away from the classrooms, dining hall and other hostels (5 minutes walk), so that a tight community is created every year.
It has the largest diversity of students many from outside Swaziland.
Emhlabeni consists of a boys wing, a girls wing, a television room, a
kitchen, a computer room and in the centre of all this there is the common
room with pool table, bar (for cold drinks and snacks) and a fireplace.
Recent upgrading has also provided outdoor 'common' space which is regularly
used as a meeting place and homework venue.
There are three staff houses connected to the hostel, one for the Head
of Hostel and two for deputies (one on each wing).
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