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Posts Tagged ‘Teens’
Learning English through doing
Monday, February 7th, 2011Some people learn through watching, others through listening, but we believe that the best way to learn something new is to try it!
XUK residential camp video
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010Please enjoy our XUK video made during the 2010 camp.
We hope this shows you all the amazing activities we do at XUK and gives you some idea of the first class atmosphere and all the friends we make.
Do give us a call if you want to chat about XUK 2011…
Why do children and teens make ‘summer camps’ part of their lives
Friday, October 8th, 2010Millions of children and teens across the world spend some of their summer holidays going to camp. It’s practically a tradition in America and is becoming more and more popular across the globe.
There are many different reasons why children and teens make camp a part of their lives each year and we thought it would be useful to list a few here:
Staff summer videos
Monday, September 13th, 2010We have uploaded two staff videos available on http://www.xkeys.co.uk/staff.html and we’d love you to see them and let us know what you think.
Our You Tube favourites page can be found on http://www.youtube.com/user/XUKSummer#p/f
They think it’s all over….it is now!
Sunday, August 15th, 2010We have only just stopped crying long enough to type a message to everyone to say our goodbyes to our online blog for this summer. It was an amazing last night! The show and disco were fantastic with plenty of dancing, singing and gunging of leaders!!
Thanks to everyone involved for a wonderful XUK 2010, including all our amazing campers, the stunning staff team, the lovely New Eccles Hall School staff, our brilliant instructors including fencing, taekwondo and archery and even our friendly Galloways coach drivers! We will miss seeing everyone so much! It’s only 364 days left until camp starts again, not that we’re counting!!
