Stamford Summer School

The Summer School began in 1974 and grew from my having a liking of languages in general, and a curiosity about my own in particular. Simple as that. The unique ‘Stamford style’ emerged after I taught for a large organisation one summer, and saw pupils left on their own for most of the day. The Stamford programme always includes plenty of excursions and lots of things to do, with all costs and entry fees included in the course price. More important than those elements however is the fact that our teachers don’t only have contact with pupils for 3 teaching hours a day. They are with you morning, afternoon and evening; on teaching days, excursion days, and the weekend. All the teachers are ‘special’ in general and individual ways; they are outgoing and gregarious people who enjoy life to the full; they are intelligent, hard working, and extremely talented in their own field of expertise. Whether it be in linguistics and language teaching, music, acting, sports or art; they are brilliant communicators, able to press all the right buttons immediately they meet pupils for the first time.