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During December we ran our last course for 2016. We selected Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale for this special Christmas course and as always we had a wonderful, creative time here at Novel English! The first two days of the course were devoted to the children’s’ creative writing projects, where they created their own Winter’s Tale,…

We are very sad to announce the death of Novel English’s resident zebra finch, Fledge, who passed away yesterday morning. He lived to a grand old age of 11 , which truly is remarkable for a bird of his size. He was especially special to us as he was hatched in the little nest where…

Earlier this month, we held the first of three special Charles Dickens weekend courses: we focused on ‘Oliver Twist’ and the plight of children in Vicotorian workhouses. The children went on to base their creative writing on the workhouse. During the course, we focused up to the point where Oliver Twist is rescued from the…

During the October half term 2016, Novel English journeyed to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardary! The course was based all around that most loved first novel of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series, where we follow 11 year old Harry as he discovers that he is a wizard and takes up his place at Hogwarts,…

A few weeks ago our latest Triumph of Love course took place here at Novel English! This time the course centred around Jane Austen, one of the most important and brilliant of our female English novelists. We looked in particular at ‘Emma’ and the four day course proved to be as busy and productive as…

The children who attended the Fantastical Worlds course this year had the opportunity to learn more about the plight of Victorian children as the Minack Theatre put on a production of Charles Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby Part I during the running of the course. A trip to the Minack is always a wonderful experience so of…

This summer has been a really stimulating one for us, because we have been lucky enough to host many guests from other places in the world; both families bringing their bilingual children to take part in the Children’s Literature courses and others sending their children to improve their language skills in our Holistic English courses….

This Fantastical Worlds course was a highlight of the summer due to the wonderful weather we had during it! In between working hard, we had many trips and picnics to the beach, and the children went wading into sea every day! We started off with exploring the plight of children during the 19th Century whilst…

In the first week of August, we held our Pirates, Smugglers and Treasure course here at Novel English. Here is a blog describing what we did! We started the five day course with our traditional welcome tea with the course participants and their parents. The children had come prepared with articles of clothing and artefacts…

June really will be a continuation of Shakespearean madness here at Novel English! We are running a very special mini course over the Midsummer which will focus (of course!) on one of the best known and most loved of the Bard’s plays: A Midsummer’s Night Dream! Enter the fairy gardens of Trelugga; be caught up…