Courses for Children Under 12

This is a well-established summer school which offers children the chance to study English through an exciting academic programme for 15 hours per week. Options include Junior Academic Discovery or General English. The idyllic grounds and impressive facilities of Canford School give students a traditional British boarding school experience. Outside of the classroom, an exciting programme of activities and events are planned every day.  

This course is designed to encourage children to explore some of today's most interesting questions and discover tomorrow's solutions. It covers Hunanities, the Arts, and STEM subjects looking at topics such as extreme weather, natural disasters, space missions and the rise of robots. It is a fun course that introduces young people to the connections between science and the Arts and provides exciting challenges that strengthen key life skills including confidence, collaboration, critical thinking and public speaking. A different topic is explored each week. 

Uppingham School is one of the UK’s most prestigious boarding schools and has outstanding facilities for learning, sport and relaxation. Children live in comfortable boarding houses where they can make friends with children from all over the world.

This course is a fully-inclusive programme designed  for children aged 8-12. It will improve your child's English, whilst offering them the chance to spend time practising the sport that they love, alongside taking part in other group activities and  excursions. They will have the chance to make friends from all over the world and experience new cultures in a safe, secure campus environment.  The Summer Course plus Horse Riding or Tennis is run at the beautiful Downside School, near the historic city of Bath. For horse rigin students will receive tuition at a locally approved stables in walking, trotting, cantering, jumping, hacking and horse management (according to level).

This course is run by Oxford Royale, who have run top quality summer schools for over 15 years and welcomed over 25000 students to the UK. The Junior English Programme gives children the chance to improve their English language skills while living in a prestigious boarding school environment. Students are immersed in fascinating aspects of British culture and increase their English proficiency through innovative practical workshops and fun cultural excursions. At the core of the Junior English programme is rigorous and extensive tuition by ORA’s highly qualified English teachers. The course includes exciting excursions to famous sites and places in the UK.

There is a maximum of 15 students per class and 16+ hours of teaching and guest talks per week.

Uppingham School is one of the UK’s most prestigious boarding schools and has outstanding facilities for learning, sport and relaxation. Children live in comfortable boarding houses where they can make friends with children from all over the world.

Bede's Eastbourne centre is located on the coast, in the seaside town of Eastbourne and safely connected to the beach. This compact centre, founded as the first Bede’s School in 1895, has the feel of a family home and offers a safe and welcoming environment for our youngest students. The academic, social and cultural programme is carefully designed to educate and inspire our youngest learners.

The Little Explorers course is full of lessons, activities, events and excursions that give students a great introduction to the UK. Lessons are in small classes with a syllabus and materials perfect for young learners. Activities make use of our outstanding facilities and are designed around the interests of younger students.

The evening entertainment programme provides an opportunity for recreation and fun and is designed to immerse students in the English language and culture in a stimulating and innovative way.

Excursions enable students to visit places of interest, students will go on a half-day trip on Wednesday afternoons and full-day trips on Saturdays and Sundays to our exciting range of historic, cultural and fun attractions and destinations.

Please note that a non-residential option is also available for children coming to Eastbourne with their parents on a family holiday. Please ask for details. 

The Junior Academic course offers young students a fun and hands on learning experience. Specially designed to engage young learners, this course offers a range of stimulating learning experiences in English.

Class sizes are small (maximum 10 students per class) and students are taught by specialist teachers, offering a range of subjects from Art, DT and Performing Arts to Science, Mathematics, ICT and Humanities. Students will receive 15 hours of English plus 10 hours of other academic subjects per week.

Aimed at encouraging experiential and thematic learning, students will spend at least one afternoon a week outside the classroom on project work in the local environment. Fun, active and stimulating, this course will build confidence in communicative English as well as preparing students academically.

This course is ideal as a stand-alone course for students who wish to boost their English level and confidence or for those wishing to enter into the British independent school system.

Offer English plus:
Academic Programme 
STEM: Computer Programming & Robotics 
Junior Multi-Sports 
Junior Cookery

Students also enjoy a busy activities schedule with sports, games, activities and trips leaving them with a British experience they will never forget!

This course offers a packed programme of English classes and fun activities alongside an extensive evening entertainment programme. This is a great opportunity to experience a traditional UK boarding school, develop English and make friends from around the world. As a well-established boarding school founded in 1525, Sedbergh provides a programme developed to an exceptional standard ensuring children are safe and have fun whilst they challenge themselves and try new activities every day.

The Junior Course is for children aged 8 to 12 and based at Sedbergh's enclosed Prep School campus - pupils receive up to 22 hours of English per week followed by activities, excursions and evening entertainment. The English lessons are not all classroom-based – the pupils work on group projects, do presentations together, make movies and interact with the local community by interviewing local residents and shop owners. Activities throughout the course include: sailing, golf, horse riding, arts and crafts, football, swimming, tennis, basketball and many more. Students also participate in two full-day excursions per week – city excursions have included: Manchester, Liverpool, York, Durham, Glasgow, London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Blackpool and Edinburgh. 

This course is run by Oxford Royale, who have run top quality summer schools for over 15 years and welcomed over 25000 students to the UK. The Discover Arts course explores the exciting worlds of literature, film, art and design. Each week children consider a key question and build their creative, social and academic skills.

There is an exciting social and sports programme and the course includes memorable days out to museums, famous UK landmarks and theme parks. 

Uppingham School is one of the UK’s most prestigious boarding schools and has outstanding facilities for learning, sport and relaxation. Children live in comfortable boarding houses where they can make friends with children from all over the world.

Bede's Summer School Windlesham is set in beautiful grounds which extend over many acres of the Sussex Downs countryside of West Sussex, between the villages of Washington and Findon, north of the town of Worthing.

The spacious campus, which welcomes up to 130 students per week, creates a real sense of freedom and connection to nature. Combined with the secure and safe location, this makes Windlesham the perfect site for young children who want to be part of a small, lively community. Young people’s innate curiosity about the natural world can be harnessed to engage them about their relationship with nature and present and future global ecological challenges.

In this programme, our students develop their English communication skills through their experience of learning about, and learning in nature. This fully-inclusive programme includes sports and activities every afternoon. Professional academies are available in a variety of sports and other activities. The evening entertainment programme provides an opportunity for recreation and fun and is designed to immerse students in the English language and culture in a stimulating and innovative way. Excursions enable students to visit places of interest. These can include a cultural visit to a castle, museum or palace, a visit to a popular tourist attraction such as Big Ben, the London Eye, Madame Tussauds or something more recreational such as a trip to an aquarium, theme park or zoo.

Junior Adventurers is an academic, fun packed course for young learners. This is a non-residential programme which students attend from 08.15 - 17.15 from Monday to Friday.

The timetable includes a full range of academic subjects including maths, English, science, social studies and arts. Lessons are cross-curricular and differentiated for all abilities. The trips and activities fit into  weekly themes bringing the lessons to life. Children are taught by experienced primary school teachers who know how this age group learn best.

The course is ideal for children wishing to get a taster at a UK preparatory school and get a head start over his/her classmates. It is an opportunity to meet and communicate with other children from a wide range of countries and cultures including native English speakers. 

After a morning of learning and fun your child can enjoy enriching afternoons experiencing London. What better way for your child to consolidate their study of the history of London than a trip to the Museum of London or the Tower of London? Or enhancing their science lessons with trips to the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum? Let London inspire your child while you work, study or enjoy your own time in London.

This course is specially designed for juniors and teenagers and offers a perfect balance of lessons, sports, activities and excursions. It includes 15 hours of English lessons per week and full-day visits on Mondays and Wednesdays to cities and attractions such as Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Oxford and London. The summer course is based at Downside School. This classic “Harry Potter” style English boarding school is one of the oldest and most prestigious private schools in the country.
Downside occupies a beautiful 500-acre estate at the foot of the Mendip Hills and offers excellent facilities. The centre is ideally situated just 25 minutes south of the city of Bath in Somerset and two and a half hours from London. 

This course is run by Oxford Royale, who have run top quality summer schools for over 15 years and welcomed over 25000 students to the UK. The Discover STEM course is designed as a fun adventure into the world of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Topics include investigating a crime, designing and building a bridge and conducting scientific tests.

There is an exciting social and sports programme and the course includes memorable days out to museums, famous UK landmarks and theme parks. 

There is a maximum of 15 students per class and 16+ hours of teaching and guest talks per week.

Uppingham School is one of the UK’s most prestigious boarding schools and has outstanding facilities for learning, sport and relaxation. Children live in comfortable boarding houses where they can make friends with children from all over the world.

Adventurers is a high quality primary school course for young learners aged 7 to 12. In Adventurers we offer a fully integrated summer course of English language learning and curriculum academic subject study appropriate for the primary age group. Adventurers offers a wide range of curriculum subjects studied through the medium of English and teaches English Language according to the can do principles of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.  Adventurers benefit from cross curricular lessons taught by experienced primary teachers. Students can put their learning into practice and use their strengths in one area to support themselves-and others- in an area they are less confident in. 

Our Adventurers programme offers a full curriculum of subjects in classes of up to twelve students.

The medium of instruction is English and the timetable typically includes the following subjects:   

• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• History
• Geography
• Religious Education
• Technology
• Art
• Music
• Dance and Drama

Lessons are cross-curricular, your child will study a topic or participate in a project that may include, for example, Science, Mathematics and Geography. Your child might be in a history lesson whilst developing their skills in drama, design technology or even geography. They  will be taught by experienced primary school teachers who know how children learn best.

This programme takes place at Sidcot School in Bristol and children are supervised 24 hours a day. The course includes a full programme of trips and activities. The school campus has excellent facilities for sport and outdoor adventure, and there are opportunities for integration with children from the UK for social activiities.