SGA Intensive One or Two Week Immersion Programme

Visiting pupils follow the school's mainstream academic timetable alongside their British peers, taught in small classes by subject specialists. English is developed through the subjects themselves rather than in a separate language stream: EAL specialists work with each pupil one to one and inside the classroom, so that language and academic confidence grow together. The programme is offered as a single week or as two consecutive weeks.

The fee covers tuition and the academic programme, English language support, full boarding accommodation, meals, two cultural excursions including the Royal Windsor experience, and airport transfers. Fees for this programme are quoted exclusive of VAT, which is added at the prevailing rate. Every pupil who completes the programme receives an SGA International Immersion Certificate of Achievement together with an end-of-programme academic transcript.

Pupils board on the school's wooded campus in Royal Berkshire, in one of three family-style boarding houses, sharing daily life with the school's own boarders. Younger year groups share bright, spacious rooms with their own common room, kitchen and bathrooms, while older pupils share with one other and have their own desk. The boarding team is resident and experienced, and the school's inspection report describes a close-knit, home-from-home boarding community.

Full board is included. All meals are taken with the boarding community in the school dining room, and boarding houses have their own kitchens for use between meals.

Alongside lessons, pupils join the after-school and in-house activity programme run in the boarding houses, including weekend outings. Two signature cultural excursions are built into the stay, among them the Royal Windsor experience.

The campus stands in woodland in Royal Berkshire, twenty minutes from London Heathrow Airport and under an hour from London Gatwick. Pupils have use of a 25-metre six-lane indoor swimming pool, a large sports hall, eight tennis courts, three football pitches, six floodlit netball courts and a sports pavilion, together with a 300-seat theatre, drama and dance studios, a purpose-built library, a science centre, art, textiles and photography studios, music rooms and a recording studio, and ICT suites.

The programme is built for pupils who want to test British boarding school life from the inside rather than observe it. From the first day a visiting pupil is treated as a member of the school community, in lessons, in the boarding house and at weekends, with pastoral care from staff who live alongside them. For many families it works as a trial of a longer stay; for others it is a short, concentrated immersion in English and in the habits of a British classroom.