Buckswood Overseas Summer School What’S Included?

2014

Buckswood Overseas Summer School What’s included?

20 hours of English per week

Trinity College Spoken English Exam (98% pass rate)

Two full day excursions and three half day excursions

All Museum and attraction entrance fees

Full Afternoon and Evening Activity Programme

All course materials including ‘A Slice of Britain’ and diary

Full board accommodation with en suites for 132 students

Student travel insurance

Laundry service

BOSS wristband, water bottle, folder and t-shirt Welcome to Buckswood Overseas Summer School

It’s easy to see why kids and teens would want to spend their summer at Buckswood Overseas Summer School (BOSS). It’s an experience of a lifetime that offers more than meets the eye! Of course our English lessons are extremely important but it is the thrill of trying new activities and the excitement of visiting new places. The friendships that are made make it such a special experience for our students.

Here at BOSS, we take a lot of pride in helping to shape the lives of our students and by encouraging confidence through experience, we can allow our students to challenge themselves through excitement and adventure as well as developing social and life skills in a happy and pleasant environment.

BOSS is not only about experiencing new things and shaping lives, it is also about having lots of fun and being able to take your stories home to share with your friends and family. Our campus in summer is an amazing place. It is full of life, full of activities and full of energy! Who wouldn’t want to spend their summer at BOSS?

One school. One family. Our Courses

Easter Course: 30th March to 19th April 2014 Summer Course: 29th June to 16th August 2014

BOSS courses are designed to get the most out of our students academically and our programmes offer 20 hours of English per week including our fabulous ‘A Slice of Britain’ lessons. We are also firm believers in that those who work hard play hard and our new approach Activity and Excursion Programme is in place to ensure that our students do just that.

Our programme offers you the chance to truly embrace your time with us and not only will you learn English, see wonderful places and make lots of great new friends, you’ll also learn a lot of things that will help you in your future and at home with your friends and family.

What’s new in 2014? • Radio Buckswood • The BOSS Awards • Diary writing • New approach themed Activity and Excursion Programme • Buckswood Health Service • All staff First Aid trained • Full British Council accreditation

Our Academic Programme

The content of our Academic Programme is carefully prepared on the basis of each student’s individual assessment and needs and the course is planned so that a sensible balance between academic and non-academic activities is maintained. We like to educate our students, but also to keep them motivated and never bored!

Each student who attends our Summer School (for a minimum of two weeks) will take the Trinity College Spoken English Exam. The exams are well suited to Summer Schools because everyone can be successful at their own level. Every student can go home with an internationally recognised certificate and a feeling of accomplishment, as well as making their teachers and parents happy!

Did you know? • Our maximum class size is 15 • We offer classes for all levels of English from beginner to advanced • Ninety-eight percent of our students passed their Trinity College exam in 2013! A Slice of Britain

Our ‘A Slice of Britain’ lessons allow our students to develop knowledge of Great Britain as well as improving their language skills. We encourage discussion and participation in these interactive lessons and use practical means wherever possible. For example, eating British food and participating in English customs during lessons. Our ‘A Slice of Britain’ lessons coincide with our new approach themed Activity and Excursion Programme, so not only do our students improve their English whilst learning about Britain, they will also visit many places to gain experience for themselves!

Did you know? To name but a few, our ‘A Slice of Britain’ lessons include: • British Films and Film Making • The Royal Family • British Food • British Humour • British Music • British Sports Where learning is fun and relevant. The Buckswood Academies

B.F.A. B.R.A. B.G.A. Buckswood Football Academy Buckswood Riding Academy Buckswood Golf Academy Run on-site by our very own B.R.A. is our on-site riding The aim of B.G.A is to give the FA and UEFA qualified football academy with 8 horses and golfer the information and basic coach Mr. Jim Colston. floodlit sand school. As part of techniques needed to be able our riding programme students to go onto the golf course. We offer: are encouraged to accept a  Football Fitness Testing with certain responsibility for the Results Certificates  welfare of the horses they ride, Technique sessions We offer:  Professional scouts overseeing in terms of feeding, cleaning and coaching sessions grooming.  Solid setup  Coaches challenges  Fundamentals of the swing,  Sessions on forward play, finishing, We offer: putting, chipping and bunkers 1-on-1s, midfield play and  Beginners to Advanced  Mechanics of the game defending techniques  Show Jumping  Rules and etiquette  Futsal Competitions with medals  Hacking  Golf do’s and don’ts and prizes for winners  Stable Management  Course management  Skills Challenges  Cross Country Jumping  Card marking and handicaps  End of course report and  End of course report and  End of course report and certifcate stating skills learnt certifcate stating skills learnt certifcate stating skills learnt

Please note that Buckswood Academies cost £30 per hour and will run during activity sessions. Have you got the passion?

B.T.A. B.D.A. B.E.A. Buckswood Tennis Academy Buckswood Dance Academy Buckswood English Academy Our on-site Tennis Academy is The Buckswood Dance Our English Academy is run by run by our fully qualified tennis Academy is available for all our Director of Studies and coach Mr. Gary Rens who will levels and styles of dance. classes taught by our summer focus on the most important Run by professionally qualified school teachers. Students may aspects of your game. dance teachers for beginners attend in preparation for exams to experienced dancers. or simply to improve their reading, writing, speaking or We offer: listening. Academy classes can  SAQ’s, bleep testing and fitness be tailored to meet the needs We offer:  Building your Core Strength of all of our students.  Focus on movement on court  Dance Fitness and Aerobics  Hand-Eye Co-ordination  Flexibility/Body Conditioning  The Serve  Street/Modern Dance We offer:  Forehands and backhands  Classical Ballet  Small Groups  The Volley  Jazz Dance  Subject Specific Courses  Finishing the point at the net  Hula Hoop Aerobics  Exam Preparation  End of course report and  End of course report and  End of course report and certifcate stating skills learnt certifcate stating skills learnt certifcate stating skills learnt

Please note that Buckswood Academies cost £30 per hour and will run during activity sessions. Our Campus

Buckswood, where the world comes together. Did you know? At Buckswood our facilities include: • Indoor heated swimming pool • Horse riding stables • Astroturf pitches • Basketball courts • Tennis courts • Multi-purpose indoor sports hall • Cinema Buckswood, where the world comes together. • Our own transport Our Activity and Excursion Programme

Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven

English Speaking Hastings Old Town Theme of the Week The World Cup The United Kingdom 70’s Revival James Bond Queen Countries Carnival

House decoration and Funfair on the Front Wear your team’s kit day! Cricket and Croquet on Colour Wars – Capture Afternoon house flag design BOSS Pool Party Carnival Float Design Lawn and Terrible World Cup Flag Painting the Front Lawn the Flag Super Sports Monday T-Shirt Day Monday Australian BBQ, campfire, Scottish Supper and Welcome campfire, The BOSS Photo Queen-Style Music Video Evening marshmallows and inter- The BOSS World Cup Ceilidh – Scottish marshmallows and inter- The BOSS Treasure Hunt Challenge Making house song competition! Dancing house song competition!

Half Day Excursion to Half Day Excursion Half Day Excursion to Half Day Excursion to Half Day Excursion to Half Day Excursion to Half Day Excursion to Afternoon Eastbourne and Beachy to Hastings Old Town Bodiam Castle Battle Abbey Michelham Priory Herstmonceux Castle Medieval Rye Tuesday Head Carnival The BOSS Fashion Show Casino Royale Night – Staff versus Student Evening Capture the Flag Murder Mystery Night The BOSS Egg Drop Wacky Races – British Fashion Dress to Impress! Competitions Full Day London Full Day London inc. Full Day London Full Day London inc. Excursion Full Day London Full Day London West End Full Day London Excursion West End Discover the World’s Excursion Excursion Souvenir shopping and Excursion Visit the Maritime Souvenir shopping and Afternoon most visited city with River Themes boat Wembley Stadium and London’s world famous The British Museum and Museum and the Royal London’s world famous Wednesday a trip London Eye Cruise and Tower of Souvenir shopping! West End to watch Madam Tussauds Observatory, home to West End to watch We followed by our famous London! Mama Mia! the Meridian line! Will Rock You sightseeing walk! Evening Film Night Film Night Film Night Film Night Film Night Film Night Film Night Orienteering in the local Local walk and picnic on Hastings Country Park James Bond Outdoor Afternoon Christmas Day Carnival Float Building Fishing countryside the beach Walk Adventure Thursday Christmas Dinner and St. Patrick’s Day – Irish James Bond Mocktail The BOSS Grammies – Evening Buckswood’s Got Talent Traditional English The BOSScars Mr & Miss Buckswood Dancing Party Music Video Night Games American Independence Inter-house Competitions Inter-house Competitions Inter-house Competitions Carnival Float Building Inter-house Competitions Brazilian Carnival Afternoon Funfair on the Front and Disco Costume and Disco Costume and Disco Costume and Disco Costume and Disco Costume Costume Making Lawn Preparation Preparation Preparation Preparation Preparation Friday The BOSS Graduation The BOSS Graduation Disco – American The BOSS Graduation The BOSS Graduation The BOSS Graduation The BOSS Graduation Banquet and Disco Banquet and Disco – Evening Independence Day Banquet and Disco – Banquet and Disco – 60s Banquet and Disco – 70s Banquet and Disco – – Grand Ball Theme – Glam Rock and Queen Theme Brazilian Carnival Theme and The Beatles Theme and Abba Theme! Pirate Theme Tuxedos and Ball Gowns! Theme Half Day Excursion to Hastings Old Town Half Day Excursion to Half Day Excursion to Half Day Excursion to Half Day Excursion to Half Day Excursion to Carnival where BOSS Half Day Excursion to Afternoon Hastings Adventure Golf Hastings Beach and Hastings New Town Hastings Old Town Lydd Go Karting will join the procession Hastings New Town and Miniature Railway Amusements Saturday with our very own carnival float! Maltese Festa on The The Great British Quiz The Centre Managers’ Evening Groovy Games Night Abba Karaoke Night Buckswood’s Got Talent Queen Karaoke Night Front Lawn Night Challenge Night Full Day Excursion to Full Day Excursion to Full Day Cambridge Full Day Excursion to Full Day Excursion to Brighton Oxford Excursion Canterbury Thorpe Park! Full Day Excursion to Afternoon Chessington World of Brighton Pier, Brighton Visit Christ Church Visit the famous King’s Canterbury Cathedral One of Britain’s best Adventures! Beach, The Royal Pavilion College home of Harry College and try punting and The Canterbury theme parks! and The Lanes Potter! on the River Cam! Tales! Sunday

WORLD CUP FINAL! Welcome new students, Welcome new students, Welcome new students, Welcome new students, Welcome new students, Welcome new Evening World Cup house Mama Mia house James Bond house Carnival house We Will Rock You house students, The UK house decoration decoration decoration decoration decoration decoration The New Approach!

The new approach to our Activity and Excursion Programme for 2014 involves learning through participation and a lot of fun! Each day, everything that we do will tie in with the theme of the week so not only are you learning, you’ll also experience it too!

Take our ‘United Kingdom Week’ for example. One of the things you’ll learn about is Scotland, you will sample Scottish food and learn Scottish dancing!

In our ‘James Bond Week’ be sure to pack your best clothes as we have a ‘Casino Royale’ night and a ‘tuxedos and ball gown’ Banquet and Ball! You’ll also have the chance to learn how to climb and abseil just like James Bond! Buckswood, Pupils and Planet

The green grass and fresh air of the wonderful countryside surrounding Buckswood makes for a beautiful place for anybody to stay and our seven on site houses provide a safe and nurturing environment for our young students. Buckswood has recently undergone Each house is unique in its own way, some with an ‘eco-makeover’. We have recently single or quadruple rooms the majority of which installed biomass boilers meaning we are now en-suite! Our rooms each have a bed, are reducing our carbon footprint. a desk, a chair, a wardrobe and drawers and We have also installed solar panels of course our House Tutor is resident in each around the campus so a lot of of the houses to ensure that their house is a Buckswood’s energy now comes home. from the sun, perfect for summer!

Food Health

Our chefs cook at Buckswood all year As ever, Buckswood is continually round and serve their award-winning developing and one of our latest food in our family-style dining room. developments includes the building of Buckswood has the ‘Food for Life’ the Buckswood Health Service, our certificate which was awarded to our very own on-site surgery! chefs for cooking healthy, fresh meals Our nurse is on call each morning to from locally sourced products. arrange any necessary health care to Our chefs are always around and can any students who may not be feeling cater for any dietary requirements. They 100%. are part of the ‘Buckswood Family’ so As well as this, each member of BOSS you can talk to them anytime about food, staff is First Aid trained and the local arranging a dinner party or even just to hospital is just 10 minutes away. practise your English! Our House System

Within the Buckswood family, we also have several smaller families who together make up our house system. Each house has a House Tutor and an assistant who will welcome our students into their houses and provide them with all the care that they need during their stay.

Our House Tutors will be our students’ first point of contact and the person that our students should turn to for advice or assistance.

Our Managers, Teachers and Activity Leaders also live on-site to provide that extra level of care and attention to our students. Our house system provides our students with a ‘home-from-home’ environment that will help each of them to learn and grow as individuals and leaders. Without realising it, everything that our students do is a valuable life lesson that will help them to develop under the close mentorship of our House Tutors.

The comradeship and sense of belonging that grows within our house system naturally encourages our students to work with each other and to take pride, to do their best and to succeed in all that they do. That sense of belonging. Your Staff

Neil McLoughlin – Summer School Director and Centre Manager Neil works at Buckswood year round to prepare everything for the Summer School, and during the summer Neil moves into Buckswood to become the Summer School’s Centre Manager!

Sue Blackman – Summer School Registrar and Finance A lot of people will be very familiar with Sue as throughout the year you will speak to either her or Neil. Sue processes all bookings, visa invitations and deals with a lot of enquiries. In fact there is nothing that she can’t do! She even makes the coffee!

Becky Vella Muskat – Director of Studies Becky has been in charge of our Academic Department from the very start and thanks to her, our teaching and classes are of a very high level, meaning you’ll certainly improve your English whilst with us!

Ancor Hayes – Head of Activities and Excursions Programme Ancor began life at BOSS as an English teacher but he’s a little bit too fun for that so he is now responsible for our Activity and Excursion Programme and for making sure that you have the best time ever whilst here at Buckswood!

Toby Cuthbert – Summer School Operations Manager Another year-round Buckswood School employee, Toby is responsible for anything that involves paper, emails and telephones. His job involves ensuring that the Summer School runs as smoothly as possible to the highest standard.

Sean Cassidy – Quality Control Normally, Sean is our Head of Junior School at Buckswood but throughout the summer, he will be visiting us from time-to-time to check that everything is running to the high standard that we demand here at Buckswood. Work Hard Play Hard A Typical Day at BOSS

07:45 Good morning everyone! It’s time to wake up! Make your bed and have a shower! 08:00 Room inspections! My room is the best! I will win the house points today! 08:15 It’s time for breakfast! I’m starving! 09:00 Assembly! Time for fun! I can’t be late or I’ll have to dance! 09:30 English lessons! Have I got my BOSS folder and my pen? 11:00 Break time! Juice, tea, coffee, biscuits, fruit, doughnuts, yum yum! 11:15 English lessons! I want to be the first back to class! 12:45 Lunch time! I wonder what is on the menu today. 13:45 A Slice of Britain! Is this really a lesson!? It’s so fun! 15:00 Afternoon activities and trips! What are we doing today? Where am I going? 18:30 Dinner time! I’m looking forward to dinner! After a busy afternoon I’m so hungry! 19:30 Evening activity! I love activities! I can be with all of my friends and have lots of fun! 21:30 Hot chocolate time! When I say hot, you say chocolate! HOT! CHOCOLATE! 21:45 House meeting and diary writing! I love being with my house mates. Our house is the best! 22:30 Goodnight everyone! It’s time for bed! Get ready for more fun tomorrow! How to find us

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From Heathrow: From Ashford Take M25, south/east, A21 towards Hastings; before going into the town Take A2070 southbound to Brenzett, join A259 to Rye and Hastings. of Hastings take the B2093 then the A259 towards Rye. A few miles Before reaching Hastings, you will come to the village of Guestling. out of Hastings you will find Buckswood Summer School on the right, Buckswood Summer School is on the left. at Guestling.

From Gatwick Take M23 to London to join M25 eastbound, take A21 to Hastings; before going into the town of Hastings take the B2093 then the A259 towards Rye. A few miles out of Hastings you will find Buckswood Summer School If you require assistance with your journey, please do not hesitate to on the right, at Guestling. contact Buckswood Summer School on +44 (0)1424 815912. How to book

To book a BOSS Course, simply complete our online booking form at www.buckswoodsummerschool.com or send your completed booking form:

By email to: [email protected]

By post to: Buckswood Overseas Summer School

Broomham Hall, Rye Road, Guestling, East Sussex TN35 4LT, England

By fax to: +44 (0)1424 812100

To secure your place, a £100 deposit must accompany your booking form.

Please see the booking form for payment methods and our terms and conditions.

If you would like us to send our booking form to you by email, please send a blank email to [email protected] with the subject ‘Booking Form Request’.

Memories for life. Buckswood Overseas Summer School

Buckswood School . Rye Road . Guestling . Nr. Hastings . East Sussex . TN35 4LT . England Telephone: +44 (0)1424 815912 or +44 (0)1424 813813 . Fax: +44 (0)1424 812100 Email: [email protected] . Web: www.buckswoodsummerschool.com Skype: buckswoodsummerschool