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Good morning mums and dads!!! How are you? We are very sad, because the term is almost over… Nevertheless, we are having a great time and enjoying these last days together. Yestarday the day went as usual in Vallclara: class, lunch, pool, clubs and olympics. Last night we did a gyncana related with Game of Thrones. Some monitors and MP’s made a film for us. Each team had to pass through six different challenges. They only have five minutes to pass each challenge and depends on how they compleated the tasks, they get key words to solve the mistery about…

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Good morning mums and dads!!!! Yesterday was THE DAY that all students have been waiting for! The Froggy Awards! The day went as usual in Vallclara: class, lunch, clubs, pool and olympics. During the swimming pool we had a swimming competition in order to win more points for their teams. In the afternoon all the students put on their best clothes. They were called by pairs and accompaigned by the monitors to the elegant table, after posing for the professional picture! The monitors were the waiters and served the dishes. We had an special dinner, pizza, happy potatoes and ice…

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Good morning mums and dads! Yesterday we started again our English classes after a very intense weekend!!! In class three the level rises so our students will have to work harder!!! Our camp was invaded by the power of music!! During the afternoon we didn’t do any Olympics games nor usual clubs. Instead, all the students prepared a big combined show building and decorating their own instruments and rehearsing musical actuations. Percussion, body expression, singing, guitar club, and individual actuations conquered the hearts of both students and staff. Everybody enjoys the music party!!! It was so great… We are having…

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Hi to everyone! Today has been a relaxed day. We woke up at 9 am and had breakfast with the monitors and MP’s in different parts of the house. Then, the children who went to mass leaved with Pau and the ones who stayed had to pass the room inspection! Enric, as the inspector, went through all the rooms and gave scores to their tidyness. After having lunch, we watched a film and we went to the pool. The afternoon has been different today because everyone was thinking about the party we are having tonight, Vallclara’ s Got Talent!! We could…

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Hello there everyone! Today has been a very exciting day, as we all went to visit Port Aventura and Costa Caribe. The students went to Port Aventura to spend their day going on the different rides. As it was very warm, they refreshed themselves in rides like Silver River or Tutuki Splash. The bravest students went on the most thrilling rides like Shambala or Dragon Khan. On the other side of the park, the other students had a blast splashing through Costa Caribe. Kids had a wonderful day swimming, sliding and having fun while going on the different slides of…

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Hi mums and dads! Yesterday, in our morning classes, the students revised everything they needed to know to prepare them for their exams in the afternoon. After sweating from all of the hard work during the exam, we went straight to the pool to cool down and enjoyed our well-deserved free time at English Summer. During the afternoon we continued with our daily routine, where today the theme of the clubs activity was ‘Get active’. We played some fun big games like mega Jenga and giant Mikado, and the groups tried to walk the slack line by working together. Right…

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Good morning ! Yesterday, the town of Vallclara turned into Vallclarua, a maohi village. The campus itself became a polynesian community. With the help of the students and two anthropologists, the inhabitants of the village solved a problem with a Bussiness Man , who wanted two burn it all to create a resort. We had dinner outside of the house. After that, divided by Olympic Teams, the children went through different try-outs involving dancing (they were teached how to dance de »Hoola» and the »Haka») and lots of cooperative activities. The atmosphere created by the river, the torches, and the town…

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Good morning mums and dads! Yesterday we had a very special and the most typical party of English Summer camp – Rock&Roll party. It was fundamentally based on the film «Grease», which starts Sandy and Danny Zuko, who were played by our monitors Esteve and Sandra. As soon as we have finished our american dinner with hamburgers, hot-dogs and fried potatoes, the most spectacular part of the party began.   Monitors and teachers danced some key songs from the movie, and then, the children started participating more actively in the party: we had a dancing in pairs contest, a caracterization contest and three more activities…

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Good morning from Vallclara! Yesterday all the students woke up at 8 o’clock to play some froggy games. The rest of the day went as usual: the students attended to class during the morning and they enjoyed the pool in the afternoon. Yesterday’s clubs were Get Active. The olympic teams played a few games from different parts of the world. They also played with a parachute and a giant twister and also tried not to fall down from the slackline. The Olympic matches were very interesting! The Eagles are heading the classification, followed by the Snakes and with the Foxes in…

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Dear Parents, Your children have now completed their placement test and we have now allocated the levels. Once again we have noticed very high levels even amongst our youngest students. We divide our students into the Cambridge levels which follow the European Framework for Languages. Please remember that various classes are at the same level and will be studying the same material. CEFR Cambridge Classes A1 Movers – class 1 (1A/1B) A2 Flyers – class 2, 3 (1B/2A) A2 KET – class 4 (2A) B1 PET  – class 5 (2A/2B) B2 FCE  – class 6 (3A) The most important thing…