Posts Tagged“Ireland”

Hello families… and good bye Rathdown! With a great nostalgia and sadness, here I am writing the last post of what has been an incredible adventure. The kids are sad as well, because this fifteen days, that have been a new and fantastic experience for them, are coming to an end. I’m sure they have plenty of things to explain to you. Yesterday was the last day in Rathdown school. The day went as usual: breakfast at 8:00 am, first English lesson at 9:00 am, then a 30 minutes break, and more English classes until 12:30 am. At 13:00 pm…

Hi there! How are you families? You will probably be getting ready to welcome back your children… but I don’t want them to go! I can’t believe that the two weeks are almost gone! Anyway, your kids are definitely enjoying their stay in Rathdown and will do that until the last minute before taking the plane back to Barcelona. On Wednesday, children woke up as usually and had breakfast before class. Then, they took their daily 3 hours lessons and had some free time before having lunch. In the afternoon program, they had a visit to the Dalkey Castle with…

Hello families! How are you doing? Kids are doing well! Here I am with more news. Tuesday was a happy day! Children woke up at 7:45 to have the breakfast between 8:00 and 9:00 am. After tiding up the rooms they got ready to English lessons. When classes were over, we all together had lunch and rested for an hour. In the afternoon, they had 3 light intensity sport hours. In the first round, we played a basketball match and some games based on sinking baskets as fast as possible to kill the rest of the participants. We played tennis…

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…