Lemania International Summer Camp - Boarding, Lausanne

Classes run Monday to Friday mornings and total 16.5 hours a week. Students choose intensive French, English or German, taught by native or bilingual teachers in small classes at levels A1 to C1, or one of the two science tracks: the Fun Science Program, built on hands-on laboratory experiments and practical projects, and the Science Preparation Program, which covers physics, mathematics and chemistry as preparation for the Swiss Matura, the French Baccalaureate, university studies and EPFL. Both science programmes are taught in English. A language course may be combined with either science programme within the same weekly tuition.

The boarding package covers tuition, full board accommodation in the school's boarding house, snacks and drinks, up to 14 activities a week with their transport, accident and health insurance, weekly laundry and dry cleaning, the registration fee, supervision and the Lemania shuttle to and from Geneva airport on arrival and departure.

Boarders live in Ecole Lemania's own boarding house in the centre of Lausanne, on two separate floors, one for girls and one for boys. Rooms take one or two students in single beds and come in three categories: Standard, with a bed and a desk area, a washbasin and shared bathroom; Confort, for girls only, which adds a private shower inside the room and a fridge; and Confort +, which has a full private bathroom with WC and shower, a fridge and a larger study space. Rooms look onto the courtyard or Lake Geneva, and some have a private balcony. Wi-Fi is unlimited throughout.

Boarders have full board: breakfast, lunch, an afternoon snack and dinner, plus drinks. Meals are served at table and the menus carry the Swiss 'Fourchette Verte' balanced-nutrition label. Lunch is also open to day students. On Saturdays and Sundays a brunch replaces breakfast and lunch.

Up to 14 activities a week are included and the programme is renewed every week. Water sports on Lake Geneva include wakeboarding, wakesurfing, sailing and stand-up paddle; adventure activities include mountain hiking, karting, canyoning, horse riding, high-ropes courses, archery, paintball, bubble football, laser game, escape games, ice rink and hockey, and golf. Cultural outings go to the United Nations in Geneva, Chateau de Chillon, the Olympic Museum, the Cailler and Lindt chocolate factories, the Chaplin Museum, the Patek Philippe Museum and watchmaking quarter, and nearby towns such as Annecy, Evian, Interlaken and Geneva. Evenings are supervised and run until bedtime.

The camp uses Ecole Lemania's own campus in central Lausanne, a short distance from Lake Geneva: classrooms, the school's boarding house with lounges and study space, the dining room, unlimited Wi-Fi and a weekly laundry and dry-cleaning service.

A typical weekday starts with breakfast, followed by classes from nine until half past twelve, lunch, then activities and excursions through the afternoon, dinner, a supervised evening activity and lights out. Weekends bring a late brunch and further activities and excursions. Students arrive on Sunday afternoon and leave on Saturday morning; the Lemania team meets boarders at Geneva airport and takes them back at the end of the stay. Supervision is continuous at school, in the boarding house, in transport and during activities, pocket money is kept safe by the school administration, and accident and health insurance is part of the programme.