Does everyone know their way around Girton village?
… No?…
OK then! Let’s do a Scavenger Hunt to get familiar with Girton!
Everyone else played some football in the sun! It was a very hot day!
All of CAE came together for a BBQ in the scorching heat on their first evening in Girton, Cambridge. Everyone enjoyed the various assortment of barbequed meat, salads, pasta and, not to mention, the amazing assortment of students during the evening! We even had a few games of badminton!
Check out the pictures below!
Stay tuned for more updates on this summer’s teenage homestay course!
A great first day in England (and CAE!) for our summer teens! The weather was fantastic and everyone had their first explore round Cambridge City Centre.
We have 18 teenagers from seven different countries joining us in Girton for the next 3 weeks.
You can look at the groups first adventure into Cambridge below!
A Warm Welcome (on the hottest day of the year!) to our 2017 Teenage Homestay students. We look forward to meeting and getting to know you all over the next few weeks. See you tomorrow morning at school.
It’s Spring here in Girton and we are enjoying a beautiful sunny day!
We’ve had a really busy year so far with lots of groups of teenagers coming to study here on our young learner group courses.
Here are a few pictures of our groups…
January 2017
This is our beautiful group from Argentina, Brazil and Chile who stayed with us for 4 weeks in January.
They were happy, funny, hard-working students and we LOVED having them here!
We took the students to Princess Helena College, a typical English boarding school, where they joined the students in their lessons and got a chance to chat to the students at lunchtime.
It was a lovely day.
March 2017
Last week we had a group of students from Denmark.
They spoke English really well and were such enthusiastic students. They spoke English all the time – even out of class!! We studied lots of topics including British life and culture, inventions, graffiti and music. I enjoyed teaching them so much.
We also had a large group of Italian students from Naples. They were studying IGCSE Geography and had a very intensive week studying earthquakes and volcanoes. They worked so hard! Out of class the group were lively, fun and LOUD! But we had so much fun with them.
Here they are with their teachers.
more groups are here at the moment… I’ll update you soon……
Today marked the students final day at CAE. Yet it was also one of the most action packed! In the afternoon the students enjoyed a trip up the cities river on a punt. The students themselves managed to do an excellent job guiding the boats as we avoided any unplanned falls into the river!
Later in the day everybody bid an emotional goodbye to each other and the social activities staff with a chocolate party. After eating far to much food everybody reflected on ab fun 3 weeks before leaving for the last time.
This afternoon the students performed in the CAE Talent Show. They did a wonderful job and are all very talented. The line up included: a well executed performance of the ‘Cup Song’ from the movie ‘Pitch Perfect’, another group performed a dance to the song ‘Tutti A Tavola’, they also sang ‘Viva La Vida’ and we even had some breakdancing. It was quite a spectacle! 😃
In the evening we had a Pizza Party- it was very yummy! 👌 The students (including the Italians) agreed that the staff made some good pizzas. Elena said she wanted to eat all of the pizzas 🍕 Overall the evening was very relaxed and the students had a chance to play table football, poker, pool and to chat with their friends at CAE.
Another good day at CAE 👍
This afternoon everybody had a chance to display their crazy skills by preparing for CAE’s very own talent show! Everybody can look forward to some excellent performances from dancing to singing it promises to be a fantastic display of talent.
The activities continued in the evening as the students enjoyed sports night. With lots of different sports to pick from including football, tennis and badminton the students could show off their sports skills before relaxing with some well earned free time back on the school site!
Today was a beautiful afternoon for team building games in the garden. First we were split in to two groups and had to race the other group to the other side while popping balloons spread across our path along the way. We had to work together to move the skis (left, right, LEFT!) which was challenging and hilarious at times.
Next we had to build a bridge across the ‘water’ (the grass) so that we wouldn’t get eaten by ‘sharks’. We had to work as a team to get all of our team members across the garden. Both groups went head to head at the end and team 1 only just beat the other team.
This is us in the Fellow’s Gardens just before we watched Shakespeare’s play ‘As You Like It’. It was a bit hard to understand (thankfully we had studied it in class this morning) however we really enjoyed the play 😄
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