Course Description
Our extremely popular Summer Young Learner course is perfect for teenagers aged between 13 and 17 years old. We love teaching and inspiring teenagers who come from around the world to learn English and about British culture and traditions. Our course is designed to be interactive and enjoyable. We aim to ensure you become confident in speaking English and are pushed to achieve your potential within all the English skills. Loxdale English Centre is the perfect place for your course, in a safe residential area within easy reach of the city centre, countryside, and with supervised visits to the beach.
English Lessons
Our students will have a placement test and interview on their first day so that we put them into the correct level class. We continually monitor their progress and each Monday they have a little revision session.
One week, our teenagers will have lessons in the mornings and activities in the afternoons. The following, they will have activities in the mornings and lessons in the afternoons.
At Loxdale, we teach our students about British culture and traditions and a little history as well as General English so they get interesting and varied tuition. In order to support our Young Learner students, we have developed a course design which revolves around our 4 Cs: Communication, Culture, Confidence, and Critical Thinking.
As part of ‘Communication,’ we use task-based learning activities and a communicative approach to give learners practice expressing themselves solely in English. Within the syllabus for ‘Culture,’ we help our students develop their intercultural understanding. Learning a language is not easy, and at Loxdale English Centre, we work hard to help each student increase their confidence and motivation with communicating in English. Critical Thinking is an important skill for any child to develop, and our teachers encourage our students to question and think for themselves. We want them to use their judgement with creativity and compassion.
Our teachers incorporate different activities and exercises into their lessons to help develop these areas of knowledge and skills for our Young Learners. Our international lessons ensure that our students need to speak English both in and out of class and will make friends from around the world.
Welfare
We are proud that so many teenagers come to study at Loxdale English Centre, many who come completely alone without knowing anyone here. We know that part of the reason is that their parents understand that we do all we can to protect their children whilst they are studying with us and that their welfare is taken very seriously. We take the register regularly to make sure that everyone is at the right place at the right time and all the activities and trips are supervised by our staff.
For those students who come independently, we also have special staff who meet with them three times a week to make sure they are settling in, making friends, and understand their timetable. All students have the Principal’s phone number, the school emergency phone number, and the Accommodation & Welfare Officers' mobile numbers. We are here to support your child every step of the way during their stay at Loxdale.
With teenagers, it is also important that they have an element of free time so they can learn about independence, make friends with our other nationality students, and try using their English in the real world. At Loxdale, we think carefully about the best/safest time to allow some free time, and parents also give their permission for this. After their afternoon lessons or activities is the time that we feel is safest for students to have this free time. So at this point, all our teenagers have 3 choices about what they can do in their spare time:
Life in the UK is different to most other countries around the world, with shops closing around 5:30 pm and there not being many safe places for children to be after this time unless through organised activities.
All our students have to be home for dinner at 6 pm so that they have time to get back for the evening social activities. We have a range of fun and interesting evening activities for the different age groups to join.
After the evening social activities, the teenagers who live more than a 13-minute walk from school will have a minibus or taxi take them home so that we know all our students are home safely at night. No child (13 to 17 years) can go out after the evening school activities. The students who live less than a 13-minute walk will walk home. Their hosts know what time to expect them and will call us and your child if they are not home on time.
At Loxdale English Centre, we provide a safe, well-structured, and lively environment where there is plenty of laughter and fun. We can guarantee that our students will have a wonderful summer to look back on!
Example Course Programme
Our 2025 course packages combine tuition, accommodation, meals and activities. Prices are per week and decrease when you book more weeks:
The above prices include course materials, 20 lessons per week, a certificate of attendance, accommodation with cooked lunches, afternoon and evening activities, transport home after activities, and weekend trips.
Extras: A £100 booking fee applies to all bookings.
Optional Extras: Return airport transfers are available (£120 per person for Heathrow or Gatwick; £170 per person for Stansted or Luton). We also offer an unaccompanied minors service (£30) and insurance (£7 per week).
We offer comfortable, carefully selected host family accommodation or supervised residential accommodation for our young learners. All accommodation options include:
Host family accommodation allows students to experience British culture first-hand by living with local hosts. Our residential option offers a more independent environment with 24‑hour supervision and on-site staff.
We organise a varied social programme to ensure our young learners have fun and practise English outside the classroom. Activities include:
You can view a detailed sample programme in our downloadable PDF.
