Wild Beasts and Exotic Lands: Novel English celebrates Diwali!
October 20, 2015
We celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali last week at Novel English, with an exciting new course entitled ‘Wild Beasts and Exotic Lands’. Diwali is the festival of lights, where Hindus celebrate the rescue of the wife of Rama, Sita, by the monkey god, Hanuman. The course began with the arrival of the children, all…
The event of Advent!
October 12, 2015
To celebrate the coming of Advent, Novel English will be putting on a special festive course at the beginning of December: ‘Angels in Literature’. Do get in touch for more information!
An Indian Celebration!
October 8, 2015
Next month is the Indian festival of Diwali, a celebration of light when Hanuman rescued Sita, the wife of Rama, from the demon king Ravana. Novel English is holding a special mini-course celebrating Diwali. During the course, ‘Wild Beasts and Exotic Lands’, we will be looking at classic Indian writing, such as Ruskin Bond, and…
A Witchy October Half-Term!
October 5, 2015
During the October half-term, Novel English is planning on getting witchy and gruesome with a course focusing on Shakespeare’s ‘unlucky’ play, Macbeth! The course will run on the 26th-30th of October and will incorporate themes of witches, dark magic, betrayal and murder-most-foul! A deliciously spooky time will be had in time for Samhain (or Halloween).
National Poetry Day!
October 5, 2015
National Poetry Day is coming up, and to celebrate Novel English is running a special poetry course this weekend! (Friday 9th-Sunday 11th). If you are interested in reading, writing and learning about poetry do get in touch via our website or phone! We’d love for you to join us!
Upcoming Weekend Courses!
September 7, 2015
We are now organising a range of weekend courses at Novel English to fit in with the new school year. These will include: A Poetry Course (including poetry from Ted Hughes)- associated with rock pools and beach themes, exploring alliteration, similes, metaphors and poetic inspirations. A Diwali celebration- with readings from Rudyard Kipling and Ruskin…
Beginning to think about autumn…
September 7, 2015
Now that autumn feels as though it is on its way (and winter will be nudging its toes around the door just after that!), we have decided to make the Novel English dormitory a bit more cosy and swop the colourful camp beds with bunks! This new arrangement will be perfect for courses that are…
Upcoming Courses!
September 3, 2015
Courses that are set to run during the autumn/winter season 2015 at Novel English: October half-term week: Famous Writers Course: Gothic Genre (including the works of Mary Shelley and Edgar Allen Poe) Winter Holidays: The Ghost Genre (Beside the Fireside with Victorian and Contemporary Novels) Once Upon A Time… (The Brothers Grimm, Philip Pullman, The…
News from one of our French Students last year!
August 21, 2015
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
August 21, 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…