Where children feel safe, valued and accepted

HIF International Boarding School

Your home away from home

The HIF Campus extends along the mountain side at 1'700 m above sea level, high above the valley. From the window you look out at a grandiose panorama of southern alpine peaks that stretches away into the distance. The Campus is home to a community of young people from around the world.

This vibrant campus community thrives on its diversity, tolerance and a shared sense of belonging. For many months of the year HIF is literally ‘home’ to most of its students: those who live in one of the boarding houses. During the day–in the classroom, on the sports field, in the gym and in the wide variety of out-of-class activities - local students from the village and the valley below learn and play alongside them. It is a melting pot of languages and cultures in which life-long bonds and networks of real friendship are created. This is international education in its purest form, where the local meets the global and both learn from each other, take part in each other’s lives and are enriched by the experience.

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A typical day at HIF
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Campus Community

International education in its purest form

HIF Boarding House PHILOSOPHY

Live together - learn together

Our boarding house community includes pupils from an array of nations. This mix of cultures, languages and personalities helps youths to develop appreciation, esteem and respect towards others, as well as their social competence.

We support the desire to perform and aim to awaken and encourage enthusiasm for life and learning. Our boarding house residents develop their sense of responsibility, open-mindedness and creativity.

Supervision and support

In an atmosphere marked by its tolerance and vitality, our boarding house team provides pupils with supervision, support and care around the clock, in matters of academic or personal importance. The staff of caregivers accompany pupils in study halls, and organise a diverse array of free-time activities, both during the week as well as at weekends.

"The students are my focus, that's what I work on 24/7. Throughout the day we work and at night we visualise what we want to achieve. Getting better and better in order to provide our students with the best conditions for their education is my driving force."

Joe Zangerl, Head of Boarding

Our expectations

At HIF we want all our students to feel at home in Ftan and to love their school. At the same time we expect our students to make certain commitments. With our support, they agree:

To commit themselves to and uphold the values and the reputation of the school

To study regularly, to be open-minded and learn from constructive feedback and advice

To be punctual, dressed appropriately for school, tidy rooms, fully prepared with books, homework and materials for each class

To be satisfied with nothing but their best work

To be attentive in class and to cooperate actively in the process of teaching and learning

To encounter everyone at the school and in the local community with respect and courtesy in the spirit of friendship

To make their own individual contribution to school life outside the classroom, for example, by training with a school sports team, helping with a drama production or being a member of a club
To respect and protect the natural environment

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Joe Zangerl

Head of Boarding

Hochalpines Institut Ftan AG
Chalchera 154 • CH-7551 Ftan • Switzerland
phone +41 81 861 22 11
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Mo. – Fr. 08:00 am – 12:00 pm / 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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