More Than English international summer school for ambitious students 11-17 years old (July-August 2020)

Thoughts from Mexico

My biggest fear about coming to a summer school was that I thought that I wasn’t going to be able to fit in and make new friends.The first two days were kind of scary.I thought that everyone knew each other already and I was a little shy to talk to anybody.

As the weeks were passing I felt more comfortable to speak with new people , I started to get closer to some of the girls and we started to make amazing memories. When you are at summer school you can be whoever you want to, nobody knows your story.

For me it was an astounding experience to speak to a lot of people, to talk about the relevant issues that are affecting all of us, to exchange ideas with international friends, etc.

The last week I got really close to many of my friends, one of the last days at school we were talking and we realised that we were from six different nationalities! Can you believe it?, seven girls having fun together, laughing about inside jokes, and accepting all of our differences.

Saying goodbye is the hardest thing to do, it’s unbelievable how in three weeks you can get to know amazing people, and believe it or not I can say that I actually love my friends, How is it possible?. We spent together only a few days but I know our friendship can last forever.

It is going to be really hard for us to all see each other again, because of the distance between our countries, but I’m sure that if anyone has the opportunity to travel we will meet again.

Living this experience in such an idyllic campus, with such good teachers and staff, and learning English in so different ways without even realising it has been for sure one of the best experiences in my life.

gepostet vor 6 Jahren

Special experience

The 3 weeks I spent at MTE were truly special and I will never forget the time spent here.

At MTE, I learnt English in exciting new ways from passionate teachers who really make you want to go to class, I had all kinds of interesting activities carefully prepared by the brilliant Activity Designers, I went on exciting trips to many cities around England, but most importantly I made priceless friendships and met people who I will always miss.

My English lessons were particularly interesting and my teacher was always happy and made us feel good. Even though I was in one of the top classes, I felt like that didn't keep us from learning new things everyday.

For my Get Ahead activities, I had chosen Business Challenge, Speech Making and Model UN. They were all great and I loved working with Calvin (my English teacher, who also teaches all of the 3 Get-Aheads I had) for the duration of my stay. Business Challenge really gives you an idea of what running a business is like, which I believe is really useful. Speech Making is a very good choice for anyone who wants to improve their self-confidence and to be able to speak in public. However, my favourite get-ahead was Model UN. It is really exciting. I found it really pleasing to research for the whole week and then to see the results of all of my hard work in the last day, at the actual debate, when, BTW, we followed actual UN protocol.

Afternoon activities are the part of the day when you can really relax. You can choose from different sports (like cricket, football, dodgeball, hockey, or others), but also things like Arts&Crafts for those who feel more artistic.

I cannot wait for next year's summer vacation to come and I am sure I will come back to MTE. The people here are truly special. I have never felt like this on a summer camp before.

gepostet vor 6 Jahren

Review from Denmark

My summer school experience here at MTE was amazing and I would recommend it to everyone who's looking for a summer school.

The food here was truly amazing. Freshly made every day and from all the different cultures

gepostet vor 6 Jahren

Review by Naiara

I don’t have enough words to describe my first time here. It has been amazing! Simply amazing! Let’s start from the beginning.

I’ve stayed here for about two weeks and I want to repeat the experience next year: LOVELY people, LOVELY teachers and a LOVELY place!

First of all, I must mention the food. Every day there were different types of dishes. Sometimes Mexican, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and …obviously TRADITIONAL ENGLISH FOOD… but always delicious. I’ll always remember when I ate my first whole spicy chilli. My mouth was on fire!

As for the accommodation, I have to say that Moor Park School opened its doors to me. It is a closed, comfortable, sweet place where you can find a new home for all your companions and yourself. They were from different countries, mixed with the objective of practicing English 24 hours a day. All of them were lovely people and I have been able to learn more about their cultures.

Regarding the lessons of Core English, they were very useful for me because they were designed to meet our English needs and solve them by asking questions and doing practical tasks. My favourite activities in the classes were the writing ones and the oral expositions. And the games were intriguing and fun ‘cause they helped me to gain confidence with my classmates.

Moving on to the activities, there were a lot of laughs and interactions with my new friends. My favourite ones were: the Ludlow Castle excursion, where I learnt more history about England; the cinema night, because I watched my first ‘English’ film without subtitles, and watching World Cup football matches all together.

Turning to another big plus, I must mention the excursion days, which were FANTASTIC, INTERESTING and SPECTACULAR! We went to Oxford, Birmingham and LONDON, and we saw a lot of monuments. But the best parts from the travels were the FREE TIMES. You could be free for an hour or maybe two, and live like an authentic English person. To begin with, it was hard for me because I thought that I couldn’t speak the language well enough, but by practicing, going into shops, talking with native people etc I could improve my English! I had some amazing experiences, like punting on the river at Oxford, and visiting an historic university. It was a wonderful time!

And last, but not least, I must mention my favourite aspect of these holidays: meeting and knowing new, lovely, amazing friendly guys and learning English and new skills as well as facing new challenges.

In conclusion, it has been AMAZING!!!

gepostet vor 6 Jahren

Review More Than English

More than English is a very good summer school because you learn and stay happy at the same time. More than English has the best people, teachers, house parents, activity designers and others. It's cool you stay with other people from other countries and other cultures. In the summer school from different activities like football, golf, swimming, tennis and a lot of others. I would recommend More than English to prospecive students.

gepostet vor 6 Jahren

Review More Than English

Hi, I’m Philippine I went to More than English during to two weeks. So I go to tell you all about this campus.

The first thing who you need to know, we have three hours of school on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The lessons are interesting and interactive. We talk about actuality, we speak together and we do a reaction. I learn a lot of vocabulary during my stay. We don’t learn English we use English. After the lessons, we go to the lunch. The chef is a very very good cook.

Then we can go upstair in our rooms to chill out and brush our teeth but very quickly because we have the Get Ahead during three hours but we have some breaks.

The Get Ahead is funny. We have a professional teacher to teach us and some staff members too.

All the staff are young so they are very funny and nice. We can do many things together.

gepostet vor 6 Jahren

Review

Hi! My name is Victoire, I’m 14 years old and I’m going to tell you things you have to know before go at More than English.

First of all, lessons. In the morning, we have three hours of English lessons, I know it’s long but time passes quickly! I have an amazing teacher, Lucy. She doesn’t just teach us English, we use English. So don’t worry! If you have Lucy as a teacher, she is very funny and very cool, she’s the best teacher ever!

Now the food, we have a very good chef called Paul. We eat very good food, but to this week, the food is very spicy for me!

About the staff, there are 19 people/ member of staff. The members of staff are very nice with us. For the girls our house parents are Valentina and Rachel. They are our mums for these weeks, Lauren is a activity designer, very cool.

gepostet vor 6 Jahren

Claudia\' review

My opinion is that More than English is cool. In this camp/ school you learn a lot of English and other languages. The activities in this school are so funny and amazing. In this camp we are using English all the time.

Me in all the activities come with a lot of energy. I’m so exciting because I like so much the activities. Yesterday I did cricket for the first time and I like so much. The food in this school is really good. Congratulations to our chef Paul.

The owners Claire and David are so brilliant people and all the members of staff too. My teacher Lucy is a person that knows all and she’s so funny and brilliant person. I learn so much with her in our class.

gepostet vor 6 Jahren

Summer School - More Than English

The international summer school of the world, More than English.

In this summer school you have new experience and to meet new friends of different countries. More than English offers this nice experience to young boys and girls doing lessons and different activities.

In lessons we have a sentence to describe what we do “using English not teaching English”. Another thing like activities are very funny and you can spend time with the teachers, they are lovely and perfect and the members are Lucy, Matt, Louise, Jai, Ian, Emma, Calvin and Bethan, nice people.

A big part of More than English are the staff, they are lovely people as well, young and an important thing is the green T-shirts. The staff members are activity designers: Ania, Jacob and Lauren. Other staff are Seth, Valentina and Rachel, the house parents and Imogen, Ed and Paul the chef. Claire and David are the most important people of More than English because they are the owners.

Food in More than English is good, not bad. Paul does a great job in this part and at the moment I like it.

The best time with friends is in the bedrooms, we’re like a team and good, a problem that I have is that the bedroom in untidy and I am a tidy person.

Talking about rules, I think that if we compare with my school in Spain the rules are normal and good. The time in More than English pass so fast. My opinion about it is excellent and comparing with the lessons in home that are very boring, here are perfect.

gepostet vor 6 Jahren

Jordi @ More Than English

More than English is an international summer camp and English school. This camp is very good, the lessons are very cool because they are interactive and fun. The teachers are very good, my favourite teacher is Lucy because she is very funny and she teaches very well. Imogen is very expressive and Matt because he is very cool.

The food is awesome because the chef, Paul, is very good and he has a lot of experience. My favourite food in this summer camp was tacos. The lunch and dinner are very well. I think that the best of this summer camp is the excursions, because the places that we visit are very interesting and cool. The last week, we visit the city of Birmingham, the city of Oxford and the making of Harry Potter.

The house is very good, the best part of the house are the bedrooms because they are very comfortable and beautiful.

I think that this camp is very good and I’m learning a lot of English.

gepostet vor 6 Jahren