Blog: English summer school for kids in London

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The New Year always brings a new focus to getting ready for the summer. We have 10 staff working through the winter on many aspects of a summer school. We divide our work into three categories, which follow our three rules: to be ready, kind and safe. Ready Process over 1000 summer registrations - we are already 35% full Update our Discoverers (5-9), Explorers (10-12) and Leaders (13-17) curricula Welcome back staff from previous summers and recruit new staff Develop our trai

This week our students learnt English by making volcanoes. Our teacher Rafina said 'our students love making things as part of their studies'. We promote focus in class by getting the students to think of a project in English. If they are working together, and talking through how they want to do an experiment, they are engaged in their work. SKOLA has a long history of teaching English through academic subjects in our English for Education course.

This Christmas we got a puppy. He is called Ronnie, named after my grandfather Ron, who was also a teacher. He is 10 weeks old and is a Cockapoo, a cross between a Cocker Spaniel and a Poodle. Ronnie has a lot to learn. Dog training books and AI tell owners to teach puppies three commands: 'sit', 'stay', and 'come'. If he can sit, he will be ready to cross a road and not jump up at people. If he can stay when asked, he will stay away from places he shouldn’t be. And if he can