Posts Tagged“Irlanda”

Hello families! Welcome back! We are starting a new week and soon you will have your children back… But let’s not pre-empt things! We still have a few days to enjoy here in Ireland! On Monday children started the new lessons. They are refreshed after a long and fun weekend. The progress reports of the last week were good for all the kids in English Summer and the teachers seemed very happy. They are doing their best and I will encourage them to keep this great attitude until the end. We had for lunch a very cool menu: The classic…

Hello everyone! I’m back with more news! On Sunday, we had the ‘Full Day Tour to Wicklow Gaol & Glendalough with ATC Activity leaders, so we had an energetic breakfast at 8:00 am; Toasts with different flavour jams and butter, milk or yogurt with different choice of cereals, fruit and orange juice. The bus lasted around one hour to get to Wicklow. Once there, the children enjoyed a tour in the prison. They could see the poor prisoner’s conditions in each century since the gaol was built until when it was closed. Republican prisoners were enclosed in it during the Irish…

Hello families, it’s me again! Saturday was a lovely shopping day! One week ago, children enjoyed so much in Dublin city, but we spent most of the time visiting the city and walking around, so the children couldn’t do a lot of shopping. Hence, we decided to go back to the Irish capital exclusively for shopping! We woke up and had breakfast later than usual, and got ready to go. At 10 am we were leaving the school in direction to Gleangeary station. Once there, we took a train straight to Dublin that brought us in a flash to the…

Hello, hello, hello! Welcome back to the blog :)! It’s been one week since we arrived… It’s crazy how fast the days have gone! Thankfully, we still have one more week to keep practicing English and having fun in the Rathdown school. Children had their lasts weekly lessons in which performed the radio show. After the English hours, they had some free time, and after having lunch they had the afternoon activity program. Most of the kids participated in different sport activities, such as baseball, football, volleyball and the killer game… They could also participate into the cooking workshop. As…

Hey there! What’s the story? Thursday was a great day! As usual, kids woke up at 7:30 am to have breakfast at 8:00 and be ready for the English class at 9:00 very punctually. Some of you have been asking me for the English levels, so… yes, here I have a list with the classes, teachers and their respective levels according to the Cambridge system: Name of the group Teachers Cambridge level Blackrock Valerie/Megan B1+ Bray Megan/Valerie A2 Dalkey Adrian/Anna A1+YL Malahide Anna/Adrian A2 YL Trinity Sackey/Dermot B1 Phoenix Park Dermot/Mary B2+ Dublin Castle Mary/Sackey B2 Kids are enjoying their…

Good morning families!! Yesterday was an extremely cool day! We had the half day tour to Bulters Chocolate Factory with the ATC Activity leader (Austin)! Children had their breakfast as usually and took their three hours lessons. After some free time, we had lunch and got ready for the excursion. The bus picked up us at 14:30 and drove us to the magic factory. The kids spent the whole trip singing so it seemed shorter. Once there the children had to dress up as chocolate workers. They all were very funny! We had a short film about chocolate’s history and…

Hey there! I’m back with more news! Today was Monday, so the kids started their first routine day. At 9:00 am, very punctually, there were split into different classes to do the English test. It lasted 2 hours, and it included a grammar test a reading and a little speaking interview. Teachers corrected the exams as fast as possible, and at 11:30 children were told their respective levels. From 11:30 to 12:30 they had the first class! At 12:30 – 13:00 we had lunch and thereafter kids could choose between sports or Arts & Grafts and drama. English Summer guys…

Hello families! Welcome back to the blog! Sorry for the delay, we had some troubles with the Wi-Fi connections, and it was impossible to upload the blog. Anyway… on Sunday kids learned a lot of new things about Ireland! We had the ‘Full Day Tour’ at the National Heritage Park in Wexford with the ATC Activities Leader (Jack). Wexford is a town that was founded by the Vikings in about 800 AD, and to get there had to took a 2 hours bus to the south of Ireland! When we arrived, the children had lunch and enjoyed a tour at…