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Here are some photos from recent events at St Giles Brighton. Recently we visited the beautiful Seven Sisters and we had a student party to raise money for our chosen 2011 charities. We raised over £550 - thank you to everyone that has helped and donated.
If you are interested in studying at our English Language School in Brighton or any of our other international locations, or if would like to know more about the TEFL courses that we teach, contact St Giles.
Our English school in London Highgate offers students looking to study English in London the best of both worlds.
Based in a fashionable London suburb and surrounded by its own quiet English garden, St Giles London Highgate is ideal for learners looking for a more peaceful and focused place to study English. It is however still only 20 minutes from the centre of London and all that the great city has to offer – sightseeing, shopping and much more!
Mae McCourt, a teacher at St Giles London Highgate, asked some of her intermediate students about their experience studying at St Giles London Highgate. Here is what they said:
Since I came here I’ve had a lot of nice moments, especially the opportunity to be studying with people from different countries around the world and learning about customs from different cultures and the possibility to be in another continent, knowing a lot of old monuments and historical buildings. The best thing is that it’s a country where the people only speak English, which is an advantage and also is something very good and important because it has helped me a lot to improve my English in all the ways, speaking, listening, and writing.
Something really good about St Giles Highgate, is that it’s located in a very calm neighbourhood, like being in the countryside. It’s very nice be far from the noise while you are studying. I think this is an experience I will never forget. Sebastian Escobar (Colombia)
The best thing for me is that I met a lot of foreigners. Before I came here, I didn’t have any friends from foreign countries but now I have a lot of friends and we’ve been on trips quite often. Sometimes we’ve visited other friends’ houses. In summer we went to Spain and it took only a few hours. We had a great time there. We can go everywhere we want.
In London we can try some traditional British food. Before I came here, I didn’t expect any delicious food but some food is really nice. I recommend cream tea. It’s a traditional tea style; you drink tea and eat scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam. It’s absolutely delicious.
There’re a lot of tea-rooms in London and you can go there with your friends and you can chat there.
There’re a lot of pubs too. You can go to a pub, eat something and of course drink beer.
There’s a pub called ‘the church Pub’ and if you go there you can find your friends anytime because many St Giles students go there. I think if you come to this school, you can have a great time and enjoy your school life. Yoko Imano (Japan)
I’ve already lived in London for 9 months. I’ve met many international friends at St Giles in Highgate. It is very difficult to make friends from other countries in Korea. That’s the first advantage of living in London. If I hadn’t come here, I wouldn’t have made foreign friends. I’ve really had a good time throughout all the seasons. I especially love summer here because it’s not hot and there’s nice weather every day. The most interesting thing is that daytime lasts until 9pm or 10pm in the summer! It is so nice. I usually went on picnics in Hampstead Heath or Alexandra Palace, which are near St Giles Highgate.
What I really like doing in London is to going to the pub! There are lots of nice pubs and delicious beer here. Also the food in pubs is quite good! I can’t imagine my London life without parks and pubs! Joo Hei Won (South Korea)
If you would like to find out more about our English school in London Highgate, please do email us at londonhighgate@stgiles.co.uk with any questions, or comment on this post!
You can also read more about the school on our website here.
We will look forward to welcoming you to St Giles London Highgate!
As part of its varied and exciting social programme for students, our St Giles San Francisco English school offers excursions and tours to some great places throughout California.
On the 14th of May, some of our students went on an excursion to Monterey and Carmel in California. Besnik Mani, a student from Switzerland studying at the English school in San Francisco wrote this review for us of the tour:
We started our tour in San Francisco. There were 9 people – I was the only male. We had two very funny tour guides. We stopped at several different places along the way. The first stop was an hour from San Francisco. It was a beautiful beach in Davenport, California. The second stop was the Pigeon Point Station. Next was Santa Cruz which is a lovely town with an amusement park. Santa Cruz is famous for its surfers and also has beautiful Victorian houses.
In Monterey we stopped for 1 ½ hours. This gave us enough time for lunch and shopping. Some of us went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium which is the largest and most famous aquarium on the West coast. We went to a Mexican restaurant which had a great view of the Pacific Ocean.
After Monterey, we went to another beach which had a lot of birds and squirrels and a big rock that sat in the ocean with seals all over it. The seals were really loud.
The next checkpoint was the Lone Cypress Tree which is really famous in California. It’s the only Cypress on top of the cliff.
We drove along the scenic 17-mile Drive in Carmel which I think is the cleanest place in America. We saw a lot of big and expensive houses along the way. Everyone on the tour said they’d like to buy a house there. I love Carmel because it’s very charming, romantic and clean. The beach was awesome! It was so quiet – not busy at all. I’ve never been to a beach with white sand. I had an awesome day with new friends and it gave me a lot of good impressions about California. I love this State!
He also sent us these great photos of the trip below. Excursions like this are a great way for our international students to make new friends, practise their English outside of the classroom, and really experience the life in the USA!
If you want to know more about our St Giles San Francisco English school, please do email us with any questions: sanfrancisco@sgiles-usa.com.
