Back to school: What is it like starting boarding school?

Lots of you have started senior school for the very first time this week – and this can be a scary experience for anyone!

So imagine if your school was really far away home and you had to leave your family and live there during term time.

Yolanda is a talented musician who has been accepted into a specialist music school this year, but because the school is hundreds of miles away from her home she’s going there as a boarder.

She says she is really excited to start her new school because she wants to be a professional musician when she it older.

Here’s her story.