Our 12 summer schools are based at university campuses throughout the UK. Centres will have between 100 and 700 students aged between 12 and 18 years old. Most students attend a 2-week course that provides 15 hours of language tuition, 1 full day excursion and 1 half day excursion per week, as well as a variety of afternoon and evening on-site activities. In most of our centres we teach morning and afternoon on a so called 'zig-zag' or 'double banked' programme. At these centres teacher will teach 4 90-minute lessons per day. Activities will be running morning, noon and night. So you can see it is a busy schedule for all concerned. Life at summer school can be a baptism of fire and staff, even the most experienced, describe the experience as "intense". Staff and students spend a lot of time in each other's company, which, while it fosters a community spirit, also demands respect for one another and a strong sense of collective responsibility. In centres where we teach in the mornings only teachers work as EFL Teacher/Activity Leaders. In this case, they will teach mornings only (2 90-minute lessons) but will have a much greater involvement in the activity programme. This role suits certain people: when applying you need to consider how much involvement you want with the activity programme. Click here to see the individual job specs . Most students come to us as a part of a group with a group leader, who plays a key role in the students' welfare. Some students do travel on their own and at each centre a member of ISIS staff is appointed to specifically look after these 'individual students. However they've come to us wherever they come from, students, when asked why they've come to the UK reply: 'To have fun. To meet people from other places. To improve my English.' Not necessarily in that order. Our job is to make that happen while at the same time making sure the students are well looked after. To find out more about the teaching programme click here . To find out more about the activity programme click here.
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