Easter Course at Country Cousins, Ilfracombe

Fifteen hours of English a week at the Channel School of English in Ilfracombe, taught in the Easter holiday window the school publishes. The school sets the entry range from elementary to advanced, and pairs the lessons with three activity sessions a week of two and a half hours each.

The fee covers tuition, full-board homestay accommodation, the activity sessions and the excursions that go with them. Unlike the summer programmes, the school includes its London Heathrow transfers in the Easter fee. Travel insurance is sold separately, as is a special diet with the host family and private one-to-one lessons.

Students live with a local host family on full board, in a single room. Country Cousins selects the families itself and states that it works with none through an agency; the school teaches and houses students at Ilfracombe all year, and the Easter window is one of the two periods it opens to individual bookings.

Full board with the host family for every day of the stay. A gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, nut-free or lactose-free diet is catered for and carries a daily supplement.

Three activity sessions a week of two and a half hours each, drawn from the strands the school runs in summer: it names surfing, mountain biking and tennis among them. Excursions around Devon are part of the programme.

The course is taught at the Channel School of English at Bicclescombe Park in Ilfracombe, on the North Devon coast. The school does not publish a list of the rooms and equipment at the centre, so this card does not name any.

A spring alternative to the summer courses for the same school-age group, in the same town and with the same host families. The group is smaller than in the summer, and the activity programme is compressed into three sessions a week alongside the full teaching week.