Private school Hurtwood House

Hurtwood House - Summer School

Age: 11-19 years old.
English language program - up to 17 years.

Dates: July 5 – August 8, 2026.
The duration of the course is from 2 weeks.

Hurtwood House opened in 1970 and is located in Dorking, Surrey, just a 45-minute drive from London.

In summer, the school runs courses for children. The guys have a great opportunity to spend their summer holidays in a pleasant creative atmosphere. Parents can be sure that the child is safe and interested in spending time with benefit.

Only 100 children attend school at the same time.

KEY FACTORS

• High level of safety and childcare.
• The child always has something to do: throughout the day, training sessions, a variety of activities, games, excursions are held.
• Small groups - only 10 people - provide full teacher attention to each student and rapid progress in language learning.
• A great opportunity to improve English: classes suggest maximum involvement of the child in the language environment.
• The atmosphere in the school is very friendly, students are supervised around the clock.

EQUIPMENT

Information equipment of the school is provided by the technical support centre. Classes and campus offices are equipped with the latest personal computers. The school and residences are located in the area of ​​access to high-speed wireless Internet, which allows students to access the Internet from their laptops anywhere and anytime.

The school has a film studio equipped with professional equipment, including 5 cameras and software for editing and editing footage. The Hurtwood House Music Centre includes four recording studios equipped with professional music technology.

Students have at their disposal modern scanners, cameras and other information equipment. They are also provided with professional software for creating and editing images and videos.

PROGRAM

English

Age: 11-17 years old.

The curriculum includes 15 hours of English per week. The lessons are very lively. All teachers approach the classes creatively and innovatively, use a special technique so that all students work in the lesson and are involved in the educational process.

In accordance with the level of the group, the teacher selects a special program for the development of oral and written English skills. Much attention is paid to grammar. To make classes more interesting, they can be held in a playful way. In the classroom, children also create their own projects - films, plays, photo diaries, songs, magazines.

Learning is not limited only to classroom audiences, children constantly communicate with each other outside the classroom, play, go on excursions, go shopping, read newspapers, magazines and books - all this allows a comprehensive mastery of the language and gives maximum practice. Children gain confidence in the spoken language, and learn to use English in everyday situations.

Acting

Dates: 19–25 July 2026.
Age: 14-19 years old.

Interested in performance? Think you want to be an actor? Want to go to drama school? Working with professional actors and directors you will get a real insight into what training to be an actor is like. Improve your chances of getting into drama school with top tips from a team who have assisted more than 150 people into drama school in the past ten years.

An intensive weekly course is saturated with master classes and seminars and was created for children who are inspired by the stage and want to improve their acting skills. The course is taught by teachers - professional actors and directors. Studied acting, techniques for successful listening, playing in the cinema and theatre, voice, movement on stage, work with facial expressions, stage combat. At the end of the training, there will be a final presentation in which all the children participate and where they can demonstrate their progress.

Musical Theatre

Dates: July 26 – August 1, 2026.
Age: 14-17 years old.

The one week residential musical theatre course is designed for the aspiring performer who wants to improve and develop their passion for performance. The course is designed to introduce you to a range of musical theatre styles as well as develop skills that can be applied in performance.

Through a variety of intense and creative workshops you will learn to improve and develop your craft and work on individual skills and also as a member of the ensemble. Musical Theatre is about the collaboration of all three performance disciplines; Acting, Singing and Dance and by working with professional Directors, Musical Directors and Choreographers, you will learn more in this one intensive week than you ever thought possible! The week culminates in a public performance to celebrate the progress you've made although the focus of the course is on process, developing and growing as a performer and as a person.

Each day a different West End Masterclass will take place. This will involve working with a series of visiting professionals from different West End productions who will teach, inspire and share with you their experience from the industry. Previous guests have included West End Artists from Wicked, Hairspray, Parade, Mary Poppins, Singing in the Rain Mamma Mia and Chicago.

In addition to the Masterclass programme you will work on:

• Acting skills
• Audition technique
• Improvisation
• Voice control
• Group singing
• Movement and Choreography

ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD

Living in a residence in one of 5 houses, in comfortable rooms with all necessary furniture. In each house with children lives a mentor who closely monitors students.

Three meals a day, in a large school cafeteria. Food at the school is organized at a very good level. Students are offered a wide selection of dishes, including vegetarian. The menu always has fresh fruits and vegetables, good meat, cheeses, milk and salads. The menu is constantly changing so that students can taste various dishes of English and European cuisine.

SPORT

Students can enjoy a huge number of different sports for every taste: football, tennis, horse riding, basketball, volleyball, hockey, squash, laser war games, boating on the river, ice skating, dry skiing, karting, table tennis, swimming, bowling and more. A teacher works at the school, who organizes the camp’s sports program, holds competitions and can inspire students to take active sports.

ENTERTAINMENT ACTIVITIES

In the evenings, interesting entertaining events take place: watching movies, discos, sports games, intellectual games, barbecue and much more.

EXCURSIONS

Shopping trips to Guilford are regularly held. The highlight of the summer program are weekly excursions to London, which are included in the price of the course. Children can visit Madame Tussauds Museum, Natural History Museum, Covent Garden, Royal Academy, watch theatre performances in the West End and see many other famous places.

SCHEDULE

09:25 - Lesson One
10:30 - Break
10:50 - Lesson Two
11:55 - Break
12:00 - Project Lesson
12:30 - Lunch
14:00 - Activities and Exursions
17:00 - Sports or Dance/Zumba or Drama/Art/Filmmaking
18:30 - Supper
19:30 - Evening Activities
22:30 - Lights Out

COST, 2026

£1,940 per week.
Acting - £1,250 per week.
Musical Theatre - £750 per week.

Included in cost

• Teaching
• Accommodation and meals
• Entertaining activities, sports and excursions

Extra paid

• Deposit - £200
• Flight
• Visa
• Insurance
• Transfers from and to the airport
• Educational company services

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT FROM OTHER COMPANIES

• We operate since 1996
• Choose camps with a minimum number of Russian speakers
• We place children only in camps which provides good accommodation
• Conducted a personal inspection of almost all the schools that we offer
• We do not work with the mass segment, only camps for discerning customers
• You can call us 24/7
• We inform you about the particularities of each course
• What customers appreciate us for

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