Specialisms
Specialisms are in the afternoons for 10 hours a week. Every child is different with different ‘goals’ and ambitions and that is why students can choose from a wide range of Specialisms in 3 categories:
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Lesson times: 1315-1445; 1500-1600
10 hours a week (included in the price)
Professional Sports Coaching
Perfect for students who want professional sports coaching in a new sport or a sport they love already.
> Pro-Sports options give you more time outside enjoying the sunshine and natural environment of our idyllic 20-hectare campus
Choose from a range of Pro-Sports options: golf, tennis, basketball and football. Professional coaches will help you improve your skills, your teamwork and your match play. You can try a new sport or choose a sport that you love. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced player, the coaches will make you work hard to improve your skills. All of the sports are on campus. Facilities on campus include: a 9-hole (Par 3 golf course), tennis courts, and in addition 3 astro-turf and grass football pitches plus a heated indoor 20 metre swimming pool.
Pro-Tennis
Whether you are a beginner or an advanced player, work with specialist coaches to improve your game. Every day you will focus on two aspects of your game such as dominating from the middle or cross court battles. During the final lesson every day you will develop your competitive spirit and resilience by playing matches.
Pro-Golf
The secret to golf is concentration and coordination. A very popular option in Ludlow, this school has a Par 3 golf course on campus. You will learn with PGA qualified golf coaches from Ludlow golf club. You will work on a range of shots from ‘set and swing’ to chipping and putting in order to build a complete game. The coaches use video playback to help even the most advanced players make big improvements in their technique.
Pro-Football
Skills, fitness and match play: working with professional football coaches, students will improve all aspects of their game including passing, dribbling, shooting, and decision making.
Our campus has 2 grass and 1 astro-turf football pitch. The ‘icing on the cake’ is a full-day excursion to Liverpool and a stadium tour of Anfield, home of Liverpool FC on Wednesday July 17 2025.
Pro-Basketball
Our Pro-Basketball Specialism combines match play with skill development. Professional coaches from top regional clubs help students develop key skills including dribbling, shooting, defense, rebounding and passing.
Training takes both inside and outside.
Active
Perfect for students who want to use their English in the most active way to learn new skills.
Karting School
Experience the thrill of motorsports! Racing takes place on a 600-metre professional track in twin-engine pro-karts. Passion for what you do is everything: students will be taught by a karting champion, engineer and entrepreneur plus his team. The week culminates with race day when students compete for a trophy.
Daily checks, training & partnership with the National Karting Association ensure the safety of the course. Karts are limited to 30 km/h rising, with each assessment passed, to a maximum of 60 km/h.
Also includes one session of quad bike training & riding in the forest.
Outdoor Leadership
Mountains, rivers, forests: our school is located in an area of the UK with beautiful and wild outdoor spaces.
At the heart of this course is development of communication and leadership skills: students learn to listen to each other, build trust and together make decisions and solve problems. Completing mental and physical challenges in a natural environment boosts students’ wellbeing and confidence to step outside their comfort zone.
Film Making
Students storyboard, shoot and edit their very own film. The end result is then shown to an audience. This is superb for creative skills and students learn technical and team working skills.
Dance
Working with professional dance teachers, you will learn different dance styles from around the world and work together in mixed nationality teams to create a choreographed dance show to present to the school
Perfect for students with B2-C2 English who want the most intensive academic summer programme
University Prep.
This course offers teenagers a precious opportunity to think outside the box regarding which university course and which university they will choose. In addition, students reflect on all their achievements to date and learn to express what they have learnt from these experiences and then use this awareness to draft a UCAS personal statement. Finally, students create a personal development plan focused on personal qualities, subject reading, organisation of work experience and participation in after school clubs so that when the time comes, they will be accepted by their chosen university.
Creative Writing
Students learn how to write a great short story. They learn how to generate ideas, create a structure , and they develop special techniques to describe atmosphere and character. At the end, we publish the stories. This course is a great choice for students planning to attend high school in the UK.
Flexibility:
Students can study a different Specialism every week from any category or do the same option every week.
For example, it is possible to do University Prep. from the ‘Academic’ category in your first week. In your second week you could choose Karting School from the ‘Active’ category.
Alternatively, you could do, for example, Golf from the ‘Sport’ category every week.
Sample Timetable below ()
A Typical Day
*In their departure week, students go on 1 half-day excursion