Educational activities and sport

Activity and excursion programmes play a huge part in settling into a new, sometimes challenging environment. They help overseas students to interact with one another socially and to introduce them to cultural Britain. Also, they provide a healthy counter-balance to an intensive academic study programme.

A variety of excursions and activities are organized every week to give students a more authentic context in which to use and develop their English skills.

An individual student's degree of freedom will depend on his or her age and parents' guidelines.

Our cultural trips are selected from places of national interest within 30 miles to 1 hour away:

• sightseeing of major places of interest in London
• trips to beautiful towns like: Oxford, Cambridge, Stratford-upon-Avon, Brighton and others
• educational trips to museums, castles and churches, the historic English countryside and stately homes
• visits to galleries, theatres, cinemas, theme parks, zoos

Sporting activities include the following options:

• football, rugby, volleyball, basketball, hockey
• tennis, badminton, trampolining, squash, golf, bowling
• horse-riding, judo, canoeing, ice-skating, swimming, karate, sailing, rowing
• paint-balling, quad-biking, go-karting and many others

Other interests:

• music: joining a choir, playing instruments
• art: painting, drawing, textiles, sculpture
• club activities: sea cadets, scouts, guides
• performing arts: ballet, drama, etc.

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