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News from one of our French Students last year!

Recently we received some exciting news from one of the students who came to have individual English tuition at an advanced level last summer. The news is so good that we had to share it on the blog: ‘This year I had short holidays because… I ENTERED THE SELECTIVE UNIVERSITY I WANTED TO ENTER!!! I’m…


Holistic TEFL Summer course 8th-20th of August 2015

Our Holistic English summer course began right after the Fantastical Worlds course had finished and was a fun and hectic ten days which embraced all weathers: hot, sunny, rainy, misty, foggy, drizzly and windy! The changeable weather became a good opportunity for our guests to learn a lot of English weather vocabulary! The course highlights…


Fantastical Worlds Course 4th-8th of August 2015

The Fantastical Worlds 2015 course kicked off with a welcome tea and the grand opening of the Novel English Dormitory, the first time our converted cowshed had been used! We went on to have a wonderful five days and nights of exciting activities, incorporating themes from Alice in Wonderland, The Earthsea Quartet, Elidor, The Subtle…


Shakespeare Course 2015

Last week the A level Shakespeare course took place and it was a great success! We managed to go through four plays in as many days, covering Measure for Measure, Othello, The Winter’s Tale and The Taming of the Shrew. The students got a good perspective on Shakespeare’s women, the pastoral and tragic comedy, and…


A few quotes from the visitor’s book for Chough Cottage!

We’ve had many happy guests in Chough Cottage this season and I thought I would share some of the lovely words they have written about their stays in the visitor’s book: ‘We’ve all had a lovely week, love Chough Cottage, such a quiet and peaceful location. Our favourite places were The Lizard, Kynance Cove, Cadgwith,…