Valbonne Summer Camp
Description of Valbonne Summer Camp
- Location: Valbonne, France
- The age of the students: 10-13 and 14-18 years
- Duration: 2 or 3 weeks
- Educational programs: intensive combined French course.
A summer camp in one of the most picturesque regions of France is the best opportunity to spend a vacation not only with pleasure, but also with benefit. The prestigious summer camp Valbonne, organizes interesting combined French courses with a fairly high intensity of classes - 32 lessons per week. Staying at the camp will help to significantly develop all the basic language skills, to overcome the communication barrier and just to have fun and happy to spend time with the company of peers from around the world!
Programs and prices, tuition fees in Valbonne Summer Camp
The program provides 32 lessons (1 lesson = 45 minutes) - this is a fairly high intensity, so the educational progress in children is observed almost from the first session, and by the end of the courses they manage to achieve really impressive results. The lessons are held on weekdays from 9:30 to 15:30, then time is given for homework and self-study, and after the students are waiting for interesting leisure activities, classes in the creative and sports sections, excursions and walks.
Academic groups are small, 7-10 people, and are recruited in accordance with the level of initial education of students (before the start of studying, introductory testing is conducted).
4 lessons per day is a traditional general French course aimed at improving basic language skills: reading, listening, writing and speaking, grammar and vocabulary, phonetics. Two more classes are dedicated to selected seminars (students can choose a priority topic for themselves), two more - individual lessons and homework. Seminars can be changed every week - so students can learn more new and interesting for themselves, deepen their knowledge in various fields. Students choose one direction from each group:
1) Block A:
- English for every day
- Health & Fitness
- Producing films
- Drama
- Fashionable design
- Popular music
- Journal and creative writing.
2) Block B:
- Debate (the minimum language level is High-Intermediate)
- Preparation for the exam (PET, FCE, CPE, BEC, IELTS, Abitur)
- Business English (minimum language level - High-Intermediate)
- The best in the UK (the minimum language level is Low-Intermediate).
Accommodation, meals, prices
For summer students in the camp, Valbonne has its own comfortable residences - separate for boys and girls. All houses, as well as the territory of the camp, are guarded around the clock: the ratio of teachers and educators to pupils is 1:4, which ensures the complete safety of each child. Students are offered cozy, fully furnished private bedrooms with facilities in the room.
Activities Valbonne Summer Camp
In their spare time, students of Valbonne have wide opportunities for sports and outdoor activities: you can go in for swimming or general fitness, learn a new team game (there are many outdoor areas) or tennis.
Events directly on campus: these can be games in bowling, table or active games, quizzes and competitions, walks and picnics, joint film screenings, karaoke evening. For the students there are open studios of painting, theatrical art, photography.
Numerous and varied excursions are offered to students of Valbonne in their free time - trips allow you to get acquainted with the most amazing and beautiful places in France. Groups of students travel to Saint-Tropez and Cannes, Grasse and Nice, visit Eze and the Lerin Islands, the unique Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Usually excursions are held on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Admission dates and extra charges
The course pricealready includes:
- Studying on the program (intensity - 32 lessons weekly)
- Accommodation and meals (school residences, full board)
- All educational materials, manuals and books
- Initial testing of the level of knowledge
- Branded certificate at the end of the course
- Meeting and seeing off (airport)
- Sightseeing program (2 trips per week)
- Leisure and entertainment program
- Free access to the Internet
- 24 hour security control of students, child care.
The following components are paid additionally:
- Flights in both directions
- Academic deposit (refundable)
- Personal expenses
- Additional leisure, entertainment, excursion activities
- Visa fees and services, translation and certification of documents.
Extras:
- Transfer (one way) 95 EUR
- Deposit for a course/programme 100 EUR
- Study materials 50 EUR
Institution on the map
Residence permits, citizenship and other services
- Guardianship services during the studies
- Student supervision
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Recommendations on when to apply
| Language courses, schools and children's language camps | Primary and secondary education - private schools | Preparation programmes for entering universities - higher education | Higher education (after completing accredited programs A-level, IB, High School) - Bachelor, Master, MBA |
| - we recommend to apply 6-9 months before the start of the course (some camps and schools offer discounts for early booking or for lengthy study programs) - there are some very popular and high demand children's camps, where the applications need to be submitted 1 year in advance (in particular Switzerland , Great Britain , USA , Canada , Austria) | - we recommend to apply one year before the start of the training program, - some schools have a specific time frame (September-November - please specify an individual school) - some schools require tests in several stages (UKISET, internal tests of the school: English, mathematics, logics, subjects, interview, some require a personal visit) | - we recommend to apply one year before the start of the program, - for Foundation and Pathway programs, IELTS and TOEFL certificates are usually required, respectively | - recommended submission one year before the start of the program, - the deadline normally closes in January, for TOP HEIs and, as a rule, in March in other universities - for a bachelor, a Foundation or Pathway preparatory program a completed A-level, IB, High School + IELTS / TOEFL are required - for Masters you need a graduated higher education, in some cases you need a pre-Masters program - MBA requires completed higher education, work experience preferably at least 2-3 years, etc. |
