In Switzerland children will learn English intuitively and surrounded by natural beauty.
If you were a child, what would you rather copy the list of phrasal verbs or do magic tricks with your friends as if you were at Hogwarts in Harry Potter?
If, after nine months of school studying the past to be and the present simple, you were given the choice between ride waves on a surfboard in County Mayo or sitting in an academy to review the Saxon genitive with a listening, surely you too would go headlong –and without thinking twice– to the water that bathes the Atlantic Coastal Route.
This that we all know and that in reality is so obvious, sometimes when we try to organize (with our best intentions) our children's summer vacations, we end up forgetting and end up choosing activities to use so that they learn or improve their English. . However, it is shown that the most effective way to do this is through natural learning, the one that takes place intuitively and surrounded by natives.
The latter (and much more) is precisely what the boutique consultant Boarding Schools Abroad proposes with its Family Camps, which offers independent, close and personalized educational advice in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Switzerland.
Learn English riding waves in County Mayo? Let's head (to the sea).
FAMILY EXPERIENCE
What Boarding Schools Abroad proposes is a family cultural immersion that combines the best of both worlds, the adult and the child: while the little ones attend camps with native children during the day (multi-activity, specialized in sports or hobbies such as art, music or theater) the older ones dare to chat with the neighbors of their new neighbourhood, sign up for a local course or simply go sightseeing around the area (there is the possibility of choosing English classes, but we have not traveled here for that, right?) .
"Our service Verano con tu familia offers families a tailored suit so they can live an unforgettable experience in a country that offers a cultural and linguistic offer according to what they are looking for", comments Sonia Rodríguez, director of Boarding Schools Abroad in Spain and one of the founding members.
For this reason, you will not find here, or on her website, any specific example of these activities, not even the camps or the houses that will become your new home during the holidays, because her job consists of articulate a personalized stay depending on the needs or tastes of each family.
The best thing is that you will be the one to choose your new home abroad.
THE PROCESS
An in-depth knowledge of each family is so necessary that the first thing that Boarding Schools Abroad does is an initial interview in which they identify their specific requirements (also taking into account the budget they have available).
"This allows us to present the best destination option (United Kingdom, Ireland and Switzerland), neighborhood, house and camp. Our service includes, according to expectations and desired lifestyle, advice regarding, for example, the most suitable area (rural, coastal, urban), plan recommendations (for parents or family), and the camp that best suits the children's desires (from theater to cooking, through design and fashion, robotics, water sports...)", explains Sonia.
The princess of the house can also be from an English castle.
"We accompany you throughout your stay, with prices starting at €1,500 per fortnight for a family of four," concludes Sonia, who began this business venture almost intuitively after realizing that this advice was just what she needed. He had been offering for some time –in the form of advice and in a natural way– to several parents of their children's school.
An expert in the Anglo-Saxon educational system (she studied at a British school in Madrid, completed her bachelor's degree at a Swiss boarding school and finished her Business degree at a London university, where she later spent seven years working for an English multinational company), Sonia knows well what she is talking about and speaks well about what she knows. And now she has brought all of her experience and knowledge of British education to Boarding Schools Abroad.
OTHER SERVICES
There are families who have enough with two weeks of Family Camp and others extend their stay and spend the whole summer in their new 'holiday home'. then they are those who, for work reasons or for pure pleasure, wish to make a temporary move during the academic year (one year or more), so they require the help of Boarding Schools Abroad to choose a home and school.
If it is already difficult to find a good school in Madrid, I do not even want to imagine what it would be like to find an academic method abroad according to specific family interests. A waste of energy and time that we can save thanks to the advice of this consultancy, based in the United Kingdom and present in Switzerland, Ireland and Spain, which makes it have a deep knowledge of the different educational systems, In addition to direct access to the most prestigious schools.
Boarding Schools Abroad also offers the possibility for children to live with a host family in a different country during the school year or the duration of a camp (there are also some with residence) and advice when looking for a boarding school or boarding school to spend a trimester, a semester or the full academic year there. That yes, always after having chatted with the psychologist Susana Villanueva, who participates in the process to know the profile of the child and solve and calm the concerns of the family regarding the experience of residing abroad.
Can you imagine this being your new English academy?