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Most people will tell you that the younger you are, the easier it is to learn a new language. Theorists claim that after the age of 12, children rarely acquire native-level proficiency in a second language (although there are some exceptions).
Between the ages of 2 and 4, children are at the peak of their language learning. At this receptive stage, they learn tens of words per day, at a rate quite astonishing to most adults. (more…)
Many teenagers come to the UK in summer to take short courses to improve their English. These courses range from 1-4 weeks, and are designed to give students experience of British life and culture as well as language. (more…)
Some people learn through watching, others through listening, but we believe that the best way to learn something new is to try it!
As you may have read in the papers recently, the Government’s poverty adviser is proposing that the school summer holiday should be shortened in a bid to improve the prospects of poorer pupils. Frank Field, who is heading an independent review into UK poverty that will report to the government said disadvantaged children fall further behind during long summer holidays because they are not being read to and tutored and as such, called for the school year to be broken into four or five terms with shorter holidays to help poorer pupils who do not receive support at home. (more…)
All the meetings, organisation and set up has happened. Today is our staff training! We can’t wait to see all our children and teens on Sunday!
