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Looking ahead to an exciting week in class
Let’s take a look at what classes 5a and 5b are doing this week. Their teachers, Summer and Juliana, have prepared a notice board display of the content of each different lesson in our CLEAR syllabus. It looks like the week ahead is going to be engaging and fun in...
A new, CLEARER syllabus
Each year, we welcome students of ages 7-17 to Manor Courses. For the younger learners, aged 7-11, we have created a new syllabus with the acronym CLEARER, in which students study lessons entitled Communication, Language, Experience, Activate, Recreation, Explore and...
Student focus group
On Monday 15th July the English department held their first ever student focus group. Each class (from pre-intermediate level upwards) had elected a class representative, and the 14 students met with Aaron, the director of studies, and Andy, an assistant director of...
Successful testing of abilities and settling into classes – week 3
This week we welcomed 172 new students to Manor Courses, from 22 different countries from Italy to Vietnam to Mexico! To welcome them, we held an assembly in the beautiful chapel, where they were introduced to all of the staff, as well as a few key rules. After the...
Seeing a CLEAR syllabus for the previous and coming weeks
Week 2 classes....This week lots of fun was had in class! Check out some of the pictures... Classes 3a and 3b made masks of their favourite celebrities and interviewed each other as if they were reporters for a gossip magazine. The celebrities they chose included...
Some new activities – Look at our animations from this week
This week some of the students worked on creating animations using clay and computers. This was a great mix of traditional creative skills, making models, and some technology involving editing software. Here is an example of one: For these sessions we were very happy...
Both our classic Course and a new Course develop students’ creativity
Our classic English Language Course also focuses on Creativity this year more than ever MC has chosen this week to advertise the new Performing Arts Course to new agents. But we also want to highlight how our classic English Language Course covers similar important...
Why study English in the UK?
If you’re thinking about attending a Summer School this year to learn English you may be thinking about which country to choose - so why study English in the UK? There are literally hundreds of reasons to come to the UK to learn English so we’ve put our...
Discovering new markets, developing our network, finding new partners, but still welcoming back so many students from the past
Participants at our summer courses over the last few years will have noticed a growing range of nationalities coming to study and stay with us at Hurst, as well as coming for a wider range of services and experiences. In this blog we want to look at the ways we...
Manor Courses Tweets!
We recommend this web event for all teachers on #WorldTeachersDay facebook.com/manor.coursesh…