IELS Malta Young Learners Summer Camp, Sliema

Teenagers follow the Vacation English Plus course, a general English programme built around speaking and communication. Lessons run in the morning and use the school's own young-learner coursebooks, with projects, role plays and discussion rather than textbook drills. On the first day every student takes a placement assessment and a short consultation, and is then placed in a level-matched class. Average class size is fifteen students and the maximum is seventeen, and the programme is open to all levels.

The camp is sold in two forms. The full package brings together tuition, accommodation at the Centre Residence, meals, the daily activity and excursion programme and return airport transfers, and suits teenagers travelling on their own. The daytime programme covers tuition, a packed lunch on school days and the daytime activities, and is aimed at teenagers who come to Malta with a parent or guardian. Registration and accommodation placement are included in the young-learner rates; insurance is arranged separately.

Full-package students stay at the Centre Residence, a short walk from the Sliema school and minutes from the seafront. Rooms are modern, air-conditioned and shared, sleeping two, three or four students. Host-family accommodation is offered as an alternative for students who want to live with a Maltese family and practise English at home; students placed more than a thirty-minute walk from school are given transport. A member of the school team or a host family member meets students on arrival and helps with check-in.

Breakfast and dinner are provided at the accommodation and a packed lunch is given at school, so full-package students are covered for meals across the day. Students on the daytime programme receive a packed lunch at school on school days. A supplement is available for host-family students who need a special diet, and it is charged per week.

Afternoons, evenings and weekends are built around a supervised activity and excursion programme that takes students out around the island. Excursions are part of the full package and of the daytime programme, so students practise English in real situations rather than only in the classroom. The school describes the aim as combining serious study with an enjoyable stay in Malta.

Classes are held at the IELS school in Sliema, on Malta's central east coast, within easy reach of the promenade and the town's shops and cafes. The Centre Residence sits within walking distance of the school, which keeps daily travel short. Rooms at the residence are air-conditioned, and the school runs its own accommodation and housekeeping operation.

Malta gives teenagers an English-speaking setting with a Mediterranean summer, and the camp is designed around that combination: mornings in class, afternoons and evenings out with the group. Students come from many different countries, so classes and activities are genuinely international. The school has been running English courses for more than forty years and is based in one of Malta's busiest seaside towns.