Bristol West Country Experience, UK

Academic Summer Bristol  - You are not visiting England, you are living it.

Academic Summer has called Sidcot School home since 2010 and this is where some of our best summers happen. Surrounded by 160 acres of Mendip Hills countryside, with everything you need on one beautiful campus including a swimming pool and horse-riding. This is a real adventure and a genuine chance to discover the real England.

Students aged 11–17 join us as residential or day students. Our programmes welcome Pathfinders (ages 11–12), Explorers (ages 13–14) and Engagers (ages 15–17). 

Learning that uses the countryside

Every lesson connects to the world around you. Through a project-based approach bringing together English, critical thinking, creativity and real subjects, the countryside becomes the material. You do not just experience England, you understand it. This is real English learned through real subjects in the real world, not English as a subject but English as the way you think, explore and communicate, building your study skills and life skills.

The countryside brings the world together

Sidcot brings together young people from over 60 countries and that is part of the adventure. Around the campfire, on the sports field and in the classroom, you are learning alongside people from every corner of the world. You are exploring together and experiencing England together and you improve your English faster than any traditional classroom ever could.

Come curious, leave confident and take the real England with you.