Academic Summer Experience London at DLD College, Westminster

Teaching follows a project-based CLIL approach — Content and Language Integrated Learning — in which English is not studied as a subject on its own but used as the medium for real subject work, critical thinking and creative projects. The city supplies the material: what students study connects to what is around them in Westminster and central London. The school presents the aim as study skills and life skills alongside language, and students arrive from more than sixty countries, so English is the working language of the group outside lessons as well as in them.

The school offers a special discount — ask us for details. The fee is published per week, and the programme is sold by the week for a stay of any length within the season. It covers tuition, teaching materials, accommodation in a single en-suite room on the college campus, meals, insurance, airport transfers, and the trips and activities of the leisure programme. A day-student version of the same programme is sold separately at a lower weekly fee and for a wider age range, without accommodation.

Residential students aged thirteen to seventeen live on the DLD College campus in single en-suite rooms, which the school describes as a private and secure base in the centre of London. The college is purpose-built and the accommodation sits in the same building as the teaching rooms.

Meals are included in the published weekly fee and taken at the college.

Trips and activities are included in the fee and form the leisure programme. Because the campus sits opposite the Houses of Parliament and beside the river, much of the programme is within walking distance: the school names the London Eye, the Palace of Westminster and the Elizabeth Tower, Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace among the landmarks reachable on foot.

The programme runs at DLD College in Westminster, a purpose-built school building that houses both the teaching rooms and the residential accommodation, directly opposite the Houses of Parliament and overlooking the River Thames.

The school has used DLD College as its London base for around a decade. The pitch is that students are in London rather than near it, and that the location is part of the teaching rather than a backdrop to it.