Immersion Programme at Cobham Hall

Short stay students join existing tutor groups and mainstream lessons at Cobham Hall, an independent day and boarding school in Kent, and study alongside the school’s permanent pupils. The timetable combines ordinary school subjects with English as an Additional Language taught by the school’s own EAL specialists. The school opens the programme to students in any year group, from the first year of secondary school through the Sixth Form, and stays run from one week upwards during the school’s published terms.

One weekly fee covers tuition, food and accommodation, trips and activities, laundry, hire of uniform and sportswear, hire of bed linen, and the school’s standard programme of English as an Additional Language of two lessons a week. A deposit is payable alongside the fee and is listed under extras. Additional EAL lessons beyond the standard two are charged separately by the school and are quoted on application, as the number depends on the student’s level.

Students live in the school’s boarding houses together with the permanent boarders, which is where much of the day’s English actually happens. Bed linen is provided by the school and laundry is part of the weekly fee.

Full board: all meals are provided by the school and are included in the weekly fee.

From the first week students take part in the school’s co-curricular activities and its Saturday enrichment programme, and join trips and cultural visits to London attractions, theatres and theme parks alongside the permanent pupils.

The programme runs on Cobham Hall’s own campus in Kent, between Gravesend and Rochester, with boarding houses on site. The school is within about an hour by car of Gatwick, Stansted, Heathrow and London City airports, and ten minutes from Ebbsfleet International station.

The point of the stay is ordinary school life rather than a holiday programme: lessons with British classmates, a boarding house in the evenings and weekends, and the school’s own events and enrichment. Just under thirty nationalities are represented in the student body, so an international student is not the only one finding their feet.