Weymouth English Centre
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Highlights
- Sailing and windsurfing at the world-class venue
- Authentic English seaside resort
- Students can tailor their activity programme
- British Council accreditation, a quality guarante
Specialty: Languages
Focused on Languages for an enriched camp experience.
Overview
Weymouth English Centre is a vibrant, friendly school offering English language courses with activities and trips in homestay accommodation for students aged 13 to 17 in July and August.
Courses are held between 30th June and 8th August 2025 with the arrival on Sunday and departure on Saturday. The minimum stay is 2 weeks. Please note that four-week stays are only available for students aged 16 and 17.
Age range
13-17 yo
Availability
From June 30th to August 8th
Minimum stay
2 weeks
Price
From $1,095
Main language
English
Nr of campers
Max 150 campers
Gender
Co-Education
Bedrooms
Private
Activities
Before you arrive, book the activities you are interested in and build your own programme for your stay. There is something to everyone’s taste in our range of sports, games, visits to interesting places, history and culture. Afternoon activities can include football, beach volleyball, a visit to the SEALIFE Centre or Nothe Fort, mini-golf, rounders, mini-Olympics, tennis, snooker, dance workshops, escape dungeons, cycling. Typical evening activities are pizza and games, a fashion show, beach games, a talent show, a disco. On Wednesdays you will go on afternoon trips to amazing sights locally and on Saturdays, we have full-day trips to iconic places such as Stonehenge & Salisbury, London, or Oxford. On the sailing or windsurfing courses, you will follow the English & Activities programme except that from Tuesday to Friday afternoons you go to the sailing academy at the 2012 Olympic venue of sailing events in Portland and learn sailing or windsurfing from professional and experienced instructors. On the Outdoor Adventure course, you will follow the English & Activities programme except that from Tuesday to Friday afternoons you will go to various fantastic locations in Portland and enjoy activities including Kayaking, Climbing, Paddle Boarding and Mountain Biking with the help of experienced instructors. The minimum stay on WEC courses is 2 weeks, and the maximum stay is 4 weeks. Any combination of the 4 courses can be booked in your 2 to 4-week stay, for example, a 4-week stay can include all our courses.
Academic
Adventure
Architecture
Arts
Arts and Crafts
Baseball
Basketball
Bike Touring
Academics
Advance your English communication skills with our experienced, enthusiastic teachers who follow a topic-based syllabus in interactive, engaging and challenging classes in a mixed-nationality setting. You will participate in exciting group activities, solve problems, play games, interact with your classmates while developing your vocabulary, speaking, listening and pronunciation. Leave WEC, feeling more confident in your English language skills. Our lessons comprise of three lessons on a daily basis Monday to Friday. Our lessons are topic-based and focused on communication. The first lesson is a language input lesson, the second lesson is skills based and the third lesson is a production lesson. We also offer private lessons with one of our very capable students if this is what you are looking for.
Language lessons
After the spoken and written tests on the first day. you will join a class at your language level. The lessons are organised around topics with the main aim to improve your communication skills and develop your fluency accuracy and confidence in using the language in everyday situations. Your teachers will help you develop your vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation that you will be able to use. You will learn and practise English in a meaningful, memorable and enjoyable way. At the end of the course, you will receive a certificate. Your teachers have all been trained to teach English as a foreign language and hold internationally recognised qualifications. They enjoy working with young people and ensure that their classes are lively and interactive. They use a very flexible approach that combines various methodologies. In particular, this includes communicative and skills-based approaches, whereby you often work in pairs or in small groups so you have a chance to speak as much as possible. Games, songs, short videos, role-plays, discussions, mini debates and project work are used extensively to encourage you to use the language you have learnt. Project work helps you to improve your language skills and to learn more about British life and customs.
Lessons
15hours of lessons per week
Languages taught
English
Schedule
Daily schedule:
9:00 to 12:30 English lessons
12:30 to 13:30 Lunch in the canteen on campus
14:00 to 16:00 Afternoon activities
16:00 to 19:00 With host
19:00 to 21:00 Evening activities
by 22:00 Return to homestay
Wednesday Half-day trip: 13:00-19:00
Saturday Full-day trip 08:00-19:00
On English & Sailing, English & WIndsurfing and English & Outdoor Adventure, students follow their chosen sport from 13:00 to 16:30 from Tuesday to Friday (including transfer to the sports location). The rest of the programme is the same as on English & Activities.
Accommodation & facilities
For a genuinely immersive experience, our students stay with local hosts selected according to British Council criteria, for their friendliness, warm hospitality and their genuine interest in hosting our students. Some are within walking distance and most a short bus ride away in Weymouth and Portland. You’ll be the only guest of your language in the home, WEC uses the Weymouth College campus that is a mere 5-minute walk from the beach and 10 minutes from the town centre is the perfect location for English lessons. The college holds multiple sports facilities for activities and games and a canteen ideal for refuelling after a morning of classes. Our campus offers spacious classrooms, hot lunch at the onsite canteen, a relaxation area, sports hall, football pitch, dance studio and theatre.
Arts room
Basketball Court
Classrooms
Computer room
Dance studio
Dining Room
Gym
Soccer Court
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Q&A
Courses: English & Activities – £830/week; English & Windsurfing – £1150/week; English & Sailing – £1150/week; English & Outdoor Adventure – £1150/week. Please visit our website for more information: https://www.weymouthenglishcentre.com/info/dates-prices/
1. Enrolment
To book a course please fill out the booking form or use the online form on our website. We will then reserve a place and send you details of how to pay the deposit of £150. You should pay the deposit within seven days in order to secure your place. The rest of the course fees should be paid three weeks before your course starts.
2. Cancellation by the student:
You have a legal right under the Consumer Contract (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 to cancel the contract within 14 days (“Cancellation Period“) without giving any reason. The Cancellation Period will expire 14 days from the date of our booking confirmation. To cancel you must inform us by a clear statement. You may use the cancellation form at http://www.weymouthenglishcentre.com/cancellation or send it by email or post. The cancellation is only valid when it has been acknowledged by the School.
We will not start providing services to you during the Cancellation Period unless you expressly request us to do so.
If you cancel within 14 days, we will refund the fees you have paid within 14
days after we receive your cancellation. However, if you have expressly requested that we start providing services within the Cancellation Period then we will be entitled to charge you a reasonable sum for those services and we will deduct this sum from any refund payable to you.
If you cancel after the Cancellation Period, the School is entitled to compensation for the work already done and expenses incurred. In calculat-ing such compensation, expenses and work saved is taken into account.
Cancellation fees are as follows:
– more than 30 days before your course is due to start: £75
– between 30 and 15 days before your course is due to start: 30% of the total fees
– between 14 and 7 days before your course is due to start: 45% of the total fees
– less than 7 days before your course is due to start: 75% of the total fees
If your visa is refused, we will refund the money you have paid us minus an administrative fee of £60 provided we receive the original letter of refusal from the
British Embassy at least one week before your course is due to start.
The safety of our students is very important to us.
Weymouth and Portland has proved to be a safe area for our courses. We will send you full information about your stay in England before you come to Weymouth, including information about staying safe. We will also go through these points with you on your first day at school and answer any questions you might have.
We have a Safeguarding Policy which details all that the school does to ensure your safety at all times during your stay in England. Risk assessments are carried out for every activity the students engage in.
WEC staff:
Camp Manager – oversees the camp
Director of Studies – manages academic affairs
EFL Teachers – teach the English classes
Activity Manager – responsible for the activity and excursion programme, overseas the work of the Activity Leaders
Activity Leaders – responsible for the day-to-day running of the activity and excursion programme
Accommodation officer – oversees all students accommodation
Teaching staff are required to hold a first degree and a CELTA or Trinity teaching certificate or higher. All staff are required to have mandatory Safeguarding and Prevent course completion.
All staff are DBS checked and screened for suitability to work with young children.
Staff have extensive and regular training and staff development meetings.
We have a zero policy to any discrimination and we explain this to students in their induction and in documents before students arrive. We encourage students to make friends and interact with other nationalities in the school. We also highlight the fostering of diversity and inclusion to all our staff who also encourage this throughout our summer camp.
We have a detailed Code of Conduct for all students and staff and risk assessments for all activities undertaken for students and staff.
We have a no phone policy in English classes. Phones can be used sparingly in activities where needed to be used.
This camp was founded in 2004.
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