Summer School
Yale College in Wrexham is offering you a great opportunity to take advantage of your summer. In our Summer School you will be able to improve your skills in English, get to know the British way of life, visit new and interesting places, and of course, to make new friends.
Take this opportunity and enjoy your summer while you prepare yourself for a better future. We are looking forward to seeing you here!
During the summer months, we offer you the opportunity of coming to Wales to study English, because this is the best way to improve your skills in this language. Nowadays English is a basic requirement for developing a successful professional career, to entry to UK Further and Higher Education and even to travel around the world and communicate with people of other countries.
So here is your chance to learn English in a fun way, enjoying each minute of your stay in Wales surrounded by students from all over the world, and visiting new and interesting places in the magical surroundings of North Wales.
Key features of the Summer School
- Age range: 14 plus.
- Group leaders: 1 free place for every 20 full fee-paying participants.
- Number of students in a class: 15 – 20.
- Tuition hours per week: 20 hours.
- Excursions: 1 full-day excursion & 1 half-day excursion per week.
- Organised social/cultural activities
- Organised sports activities
Aims of the Summer School programme
- To generate interest in learning of English language amongst young learners.
- To raise awareness of English language programme in the UK.
- Nurture European-UK relationship amongst young overseas learners.
- To promote UK education. Furthermore, Yale College has its own Travel Agency for student training purposes and is run within a professional environment. Yale Travel opportunities.
- To allow young overseas students to enjoy a taste of UK culture and lifestyle.
- Competitive advantage: apart from the English lessons and the various activities and excursions in Wales, the programme will allow students to learn through the experience of TV and Video Recording Studios.
Travelling arrangements for the summer school
We have professional coach and travel services in Wrexham. Services are open to the public, college staff and students.
Course Activities
Students will enjoy a range of activities from visiting local attractions, castles, the cities of Manchester, Liverpool and Chester as well as a selection of the following:
Acton Scott Victorian Farm
Located in the Acton Scott estate’s 18th century Home Farm, the Historic Working Farm was conceived by Thomas Acton more than thirty years ago to keep alive the 19th century skills he grew up with. The first of its kind and much copied since, farm life unfolds daily, while the land around is worked by heavy horses. The Historic Working Farm is operated day to day by Shropshire Council. Tucked away in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is the historic and privately owned country estate of Acton Scott. Visitors and holiday makers are encouraged to come and experience its timeless appeal and village character and so help preserve its rural heritage for many more generations.
Cheshire Oaks
Situated in England’s North West close to Historic Chester and between the cities of Manchester and Liverpool, Cheshire Oaks is the largest Designer Outlet in the UK. Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet is the perfect place for a day out as there’s always something going on, be it a new store opening, a free half term event for the kiddies, charity fundraisers or celebrity guest appearances.
Chirk Castle
Completed in 1310, Chirk is the last Welsh castle from the reign of Edward I still lived in today. Features from its 700 years include the medieval tower and dungeon, 17th-century Long Gallery, grand 18th-century state apartments, servants’ hall and historic laundry. The award-winning gardens contain clipped yews, herbaceous borders, shrub and rock gardens. A terrace with stunning views looks out over the Cheshire and Salop plains. The parkland provides a habitat for rare invertebrates, wild flowers and contains many mature trees and also some splendid wrought-iron gates, made in 1719 by the Davies brother.
Ellesmere Lake-Rowing
Ellesmere, in the Shropshire Lake District, is the largest and most spectacular of nine glacial ‘meres’. The mere was created at the end of the last Ice Age. Ellesmere is important for its wildlife. Signposted trails and paths linking it to the town centre. The remains of a 12th century Norman castle in Castlefields gives views over the mere. To the south of Castlefields lies the Plantation, a nature reserve run by the Shropshire Wildlife Trust. The Mere-side promenade, gardens and Boathouse Visitor Centre have recently been restored to their former glory.
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury is a historic market town with the town centre having a largely unaltered medieval street plan. The town features over 660 historic listed buildings, including several examples of timber framing from the 15th and 16th century. Shrewsbury Castle, a red sandstone castle fortification, and Shrewsbury Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery, were founded in 1074 and 1083 respectively, by the Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomery. The town hosts one of the oldest and largest horticultural events in the country, Shrewsbury Flower Show, and is known for its floral displays, having won various awards since the turn of the 21st century, including Britain in Bloom in 2006.
Llangollen Heritage Railway
Llangollen Railway is a mainly Steam hauled Heritage Railway Line starting at Llangollen Station located beside the Dee River Bridge in Llangollen Town, and continuing for 7 ½ miles upstream, following the River Dee to the village of Carrog.
The Railway remains close to the waters of the river for most of its length, on the north bank at Llangollen Station, the river is crossed on to the south bank via the Dee Bridge, approximately one mile upstream from Llangollen.
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
The Llangollen branch of the Shropshire Union Canal must be one of the most spectacular and scenic canals in Britain. The canal is fed from the River Dee at the Horseshoe Falls just out of Llangollen. You can walk through Darkie Tunnel but beware it is some 1200 feet in length, so a flashlight is recommended, it is one of two tunnels at Chirk, the other is the shorter Whitehurst Tunnel.
A quote in “the Life of Thomas Telford” publication says “…Aqueduct is situated in a finely wooded valley, having Chirk Castle as an eminence immediately above it, with the Welsh Mountains and Glen Ceiriog as a background and the village of Chirk with Lord Dungannon’s Ceiriog Bridge occupying the intermediate space. These combined objects compose a landscape seldom surpassed.”
The 70 feet high aqueduct built between 1796 and 1801 by Thomas Telford and William Jessop was built, like the Pontcysyllte, to carry the Ellesmere Canal.It was opened on 26 November 1805, having taken around ten years to design and build at a total cost of £47,000 (£2,930,000 as of 2010).
Chill Factor – Skiing in Manchester
The £31 million Chill Factore opened in November 2007 and is the first indoor ski slope in the north west of England. The development is situated off junction 10 of the M60, next to Manchester’s Trafford Centre. It covers an area of 250,000 square feet and features two distinct environments:
Ski Resort & Ski Slope The ‘cold area’ includes three indoor ski slopes with real snow and caters to skiers and snowboarders of all abilities. There is also a children’s snow play area with igloos and slides, a climbing wall and toboggan run.
Mountain Village This ‘warm area’ offers Alpine-themed bars and restaurants with views overlooking the ski slopes.
Bala Lake
Bala Lake is a large lake in Gwynedd, Wales. It was the largest natural body of water in Wales prior to the level being raised by Thomas Telford to help support the flow of the Ellesmere Canal. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) long by 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, and is subject to sudden and dangerous floods. The River Dee runs through it and the waters of the lake are famously deep and clear. The town of Bala sits at its northern end and the narrow gauge Bala Lake Railway runs for several kilometres along the lake’s southern shore.
Costs and How to Apply
For information on costs and how to apply please contact the International Office.
Phone: 01978 316495 or
Email: sy@yale-wrexham.ac.uk or sc@yale-wrexham.ac.uk
Post: International Office, Yale College, Grove Park Road, Wrexham, LL12 7AB
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