Sport Camps

Sports & Skills Camp at École des Roches, Normandy

Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton, FranceÉcole des Roches

Dates: Jun 20 – Aug 15, 2027
Duration: 15 days
Ages: 12–17

Price from

$2,717

Per week on a 2-week stay

Shortest stay: 2 weeks — $5,435

English plus Speciality Training

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A two-week camp for students aged 12 to 17 that pairs language lessons with expert coaching in one chosen speciality — culinary workshops, equestrian, go-karting, golf, padel or tennis — on the 50-hectare boarding campus of École des Roches in Normandy, about an hour from Paris. Mornings are 16 hours of French or English a week; afternoons are 10 hours of coached training a week on professional-level facilities. Four cultural and adventure excursions are included in every two-week session, and students board in single-sex houses with full board and round-the-clock pastoral care.

Age

12–17 yrs

Language

English, French

Program type

Sport Camps

Accommodation

Campus

About

About the Course

The week splits in two: 16 hours of language lessons — French or English, in classes of 12 to 15 formed by level — and 10 hours of coached training in one speciality chosen for the session. The specialities are culinary workshops, equestrian, go-karting, golf, padel and tennis; one is taken per session, and the coaching is run by specialist instructors on the school's own facilities.

What’s Included

The fee covers tuition, full boarding and all meals, the activity programme, four excursions per two-week session, and standard transfers to and from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on the changeover Sunday that opens and closes the stay. Standard transfers cover flights arriving between 11:00 and 15:00 on changeover Sundays; any other arrangement is charged as an extra. Two-week sessions can be combined into stays of two, three, four, six or eight weeks.

Accommodation

Students board on campus in recently renovated historic houses. Rooms hold four to eight students, houses are single-sex and grouped by age, and experienced house parents live in each residence. Each house has social lounges, a fitness suite, a cinema room and a kitchen.

Meal Plan

Full board: three meals a day, prepared on campus by professional chefs from fresh Normandy produce. All dietary requirements are catered for.

Activities & Excursions

Afternoons and evenings are given to swimming, team sports, climbing walls, visual arts, music and dance, and each session closes with a themed disco night. Four excursions are included in every two-week session — cultural visits to Parisian landmarks, Versailles, Monet's gardens, the D-Day landing beaches and historic cathedrals and châteaux, and adventure days such as Disneyland Paris, treetop climbing, natural parks and the Normandy coast.

Facilities

The campus covers 50 hectares at Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton in Normandy, about an hour from Paris; the school was founded in 1899. Facilities include five tennis courts, a golf range with chipping green, an electric go-kart track, technology labs, sports grounds, and the boarding houses with their social lounges, fitness suites and cinema rooms.

Camp Experience

More than 30 nationalities share the campus each summer. Pastoral care runs around the clock: house parents live in the residences, and staff meet students at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and travel with them to campus on changeover Sundays.

Language Camp prices

English plus Speciality Training

16 Lessons · 12–17 yrs · All levels

Dates

Price from

Language lessons in the morning and coached speciality training in the afternoon, for students aged 12 to 17. Classes hold 12 to 15 students and are formed by level; the speciality — culinary workshops, equestrian, go-karting, golf, padel or tennis — is chosen for the session.

Sixteen hours of language lessons a week, every morning from Monday to Friday, in classes of 12 to 15 grouped by level, plus 10 hours a week of coached training in the chosen speciality.

Language for use rather than for exams: the morning class gives the vocabulary of the afternoon's sport or workshop, so the speciality itself becomes the practice ground.

Daily Schedule

Breakfast
07:00–08:00
Classes
08:30–12:30
Lunch
12:30–13:30
Dinner
18:30–19:30
Evening activities
20:00–22:00
Lights out
22:30

Included items

24/7 supervision
International students
Small groups

Disco
Excursions
Golf
Horse Riding

Cafeteria
Outdoor fields
Residence accommodation
Student lounge

Optional Extras

Top recommendation

Recommended for most families

Smooth arrival and fewer surprises.

Non-standard airport transfer

Charged when arrival or departure falls outside the standard Paris Charles de Gaulle transfer window on a changeover Sunday.

Extra day on campus

Each additional day on campus before or after a session, charged per day.

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School

École des Roches

École des Roches is an independent boarding school in Normandy, founded in 1899 and set on a fifty-hectare campus at Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton, about an hour from Paris by train. It teaches pupils from Grade 6 through Grade 12, with a student-to-teacher ratio of six to one and more than fifty nationalities on campus. Alongside its French curriculum the school runs a French as a Foreign Language pathway and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme for international pupils, offering both five-day and seven-day boarding, with meals, co-curricular activities and boarding-house life shared with French and international students.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Students aged 12 to 17. Language classes are formed by level and boarding houses are grouped by age.

Culinary workshops, equestrian, go-karting, golf, padel or tennis. One speciality is taken per session, with 10 hours of coached training a week.

Tuition and speciality coaching, full boarding and all meals, the activity programme, four excursions per two-week session, and standard transfers to and from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on the changeover Sundays that open and close the stay.

Sessions run two weeks each and can be combined into stays of two, three, four, six or eight weeks.

Yes. Standard transfers from and to Paris Charles de Gaulle are included for flights arriving between 11:00 and 15:00 on a changeover Sunday; staff meet students at the airport and travel with them to campus. Any other arrangement is charged as an extra.

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More about this camp

École des Roches runs its Sports & Skills Camp on a 50-hectare campus in Normandy, about an hour from Paris. Students aged 12 to 17 spend their mornings in language classes of 12 to 15, formed by level and taught in French or English for 16 hours a week, and their afternoons in 10 hours of coached training in one speciality chosen for the session: culinary workshops, equestrian, go-karting, golf, padel or tennis. The school's own facilities include five tennis courts, a golf range with chipping green and an electric go-kart track. Evenings and the rest of the week bring swimming, team sports, climbing, arts, music and dance, and every two-week session includes four excursions to Parisian landmarks, Versailles, Monet's gardens, the D-Day beaches, Disneyland Paris or the Normandy coast. Students board in recently renovated single-sex houses in rooms of four to eight, grouped by age, with house parents living in and pastoral care around the clock; full board is prepared on campus and all dietary requirements are catered for.

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