7-12/13-14 year olds, girls and boys (English Level: A2/B1 to Advanced)
London Academic Day Program is a day-only summer programme, integrating English language learning with national curriculum of UK primary/secondary school. The courses are designed to help students who look for a fun way of developing their subject knowledge and confidence, while improving their language skills and to be better able in future to follow a course of academic study delivered in English.
This is a Day Only programme, ideal for young students who live in London or are holidaying with their parents. Monday to Friday, junior/senior students will study 15 hours / 18 hours per week in the mornings and then enjoy a trip or leisure activity in the afternoons before going home at 18.00.
Junior students aged 7-12 will follow a primary school curriculum, whereas senior students aged 13-14 will chose their academic stream from the rich palette of STEAM, Social Studies or Arts offered as part of the GCSE curriculum. Lessons are cross-curricular, where students will study a topic or participate in a project which combines different subjects. Students will be taught by experienced primary/secondary school teachers depending on age groups and course curriculums, and supported by experienced teachers of English.
The course fully integrates English language learning and academic subject study through European ground-breaking teaching method – Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), an approach for learning content through a foreign language (English), thus teaching both the subject and the language. The course aims to help students to achieve their personal best in every subject, and the main learning styles are learning through hearing, learning through seeing and learning through doing.
In the afternoons students will explore the city of London such as Houses of Parliament, Shakespeare’s Globe, Tower Bridge, Tower of London. Diana Memorial Playground, Buckingham Palace, Natural History Museum, London Eye and Kidzania, National Gallery, Horse Guards Parade, Royal Albert Hall. We will have sports contests during our sports days in Hyde Park/St James Park before having a traditional afternoon tea. Students will chill out back at school on Thursday afternoons with crafts and activity afternoons.
Junior students can also opt to attend full board residential programme Junior Academic Adventurers (7-12) in Bristol, whereas senior students take the full programme of London Academic Summer Courses (13-17) in London or a GCSE/IGCSE Explorers (12-14) programme in Bristol.
Course Essentials:
London Academic Day Program consists of a well-balanced programme of academic tuition, activities, sports and excursions from Monday to Friday. The weekly programme includes:
- 15 hours of junior academic tuition per week
- 18 hours of senior academic tuition per week
- Personal Best tutor time
- Afternoon trips, sports and activity programme
- Maximum class size of 12 students (typically 10 students per class)
- Insurance
- Dinners and Airport transfers are NOT included in the course.
Activities:
British Education encourages students to be involved in artistic pursuits, sports and community service work in order to fostering students awareness and appreciation of life outside the academic arena. The social programme of the course is designed to incorporate aspects of the Creativity, Action and Service (CAS) strand of the IB Diploma.
- Creativity includes a wide range of arts activities. Students will be able to participate in digital media, textiles, drama, bracelet making, cooking, model making, art competitions, circus skills, quizzes and photography.
- Action includes participation in individual and team sports, including football, cricket, volleyball, basketball, badminton, tennis, paint-balling, archery, fencing, swimming, hiking, orienteering, canoeing, water zorbing, sports competition, driving, survival skills and abseiling.
- Service encompasses community and social service activities. Students could be involved in helping to organise fun charity events to raise money. For these events students worked as a team and developed leadership and organisational skills.
Personal Best:
Students are encouraged to set targets and to keep a diary and folder of their work. Through praise and encouragement we will help students to see how far they have come and how much they can do if they continue to work hard. Students are assessed on academic performance and attitude towards learning in lessons and this assessment is documented in the student’s weekly report.
The timetable below is a typical London Academic Day Program with weekly leisure activities.
The DLD College London is an independent sixth form college situated in the heart of London, directly opposite Westminster and Big Ben. The College, founded in 1931, offers superb, modern teaching facilities in the heart of London overlooking The Houses of Parliament, Big Ben & the River Thames.
As one of the oldest and most prestigious colleges in the UK, DLD College specialises in preparing students for GCSE, A Level and International Foundation Programmes. Its reputation is built on success in public examinations and the quality of its small group teaching. It aims to maintain a ‘gold standard’ of educational quality, with small classes, the students and teachers are able to focus upon the most effective ways of learning.
The large sixth form enables the College to offer a wide range of subjects, supported by a strong pastoral system and high quality higher education and careers advice. Because of the intense competition for places at very top universities, especially Oxford or Cambridge, the College offer students’ extensive support to take additional exams and wider programmes, such as Oxbridge Entrance Programme and Medicine and Dentistry Programme, designed to help those aiming for the very highest level.
DLD students have won gold, silver and bronze awards in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Olympiads in recent years. In the 2011-2012 series of Mathematics Olympiads, Abbey DLD students gained an astonishing 9 gold medals. At A Level in 2022, a highly-impressive 40% of grades were awarded A*-A and 70% at A*-B, an increase of 13% and 15% respectively on pre-pandemic (2019) results when students last sat invigilated exams – well above the national average. At BTEC Diploma students have secured equally impressive results. A phenomenal 92% of grades were awarded at Distinction level (the equivalent to three A* to A grades at A Level), an increase of over 50% on 2019 (39%), and 100% of results were at Distinction or Merit (the equivalent to three C grades of above at A Level). GCSE students have also achieved exceptional results in 2022 for a non-selective school, with huge increases on 2019 (30% increase on grades 9-6 to 69%). A third of students achieved 5 or more grades at 9-6 and over a fifth achieved 5 or more grades 9-7, whilst 15% of students achieved all grades 9-7.
