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Alpine Summer Camp

Our Alpine Summer Camp is a great way for teenagers to do something educational and great fun during their summer break! Morzine is a safe mountain town in a great setting with amazing activities on offer. It is easily accessible from Geneva airport and the European rail network.

The day on our Alpine Summer Camp starts with a hearty breakfast in the junior holiday centre, with other students of different nationalities served by the local French family who run the centre. They have children themselves and have run the centre for many years so they are great hosts and provide good food that juniors love!

In the morning, students follow lessons, for 3 hours with a 30-minute break for them to have a run around! Lessons are designed to be fun yet educational, are taught in French by dynamic French native-speaker teachers. There are plenty of games, quizzes, songs and interactive activities to initiate them to fun language learning!

Lunch is served at the Alpine Summer Camp holiday centre or as a picnic lunch or barbecue depending on what the afternoon activity is. Serge, the chef, cooks some local specialities too, to introduce French and local specialities but he knows which ones are popular with juniors and which are too unusual for their tastes! Plus he makes great desserts :)

In the afternoon, Alpine Summer Camp activity leaders organise activities such as sports tournaments, football matches and pétanque competitions (French bowls) in the lush gardens and sports pitches of the holiday centre. Some afternoons will involve beach volleyball and swimming at Morzine’s great aquatic centre, or games and swimming at a local mountain lake. The mountain summers are surprisingly warm! During such activities, juniors get the opportunity to practise their language skills outside of the classroom and really bring the language to life. This is an essential part of language study which rarely gets taught in schools and awakens an interest in languages and other cultures!

Our Option + scheme enables students to choose additional activities that interest them such as mountain biking (Morzine is a mecca for mountain biking!), adventure activities (white-water rafting, adventure park, climbing, mountain biking, summer sledging) or private tuition (perhaps in preparation for an exam).

Dinner is served at the centre, either in the dining hall or as a BBQ! Children can fill up on great food before taking part in evening activities.

Evening & language activities: in the event of a rainy day and in the evenings, our Alpine Summer Camp has several large rooms where our experienced teachers and dynamic activity coordinators come together to run fun language activities such as blogging in French/English, journalistic projects, theatre workshops and arts & crafts. Evening activities include karaoke nights, discos, quiz nights and BBQs.

Accommodation: Students on our Alpine Summer Camp will stay in a junior holiday centre designed for study travel trips for juniors and teenage groups. The centre is managed by an experienced local family who have been welcoming school groups to the area for more than 15 years. Students are housed in modern en-suite rooms sleeping 2-6 people. Our activity coordinators stay on-site in the student residence to provide supervision, to ensure a convivial atmosphere, to lend a sympathetic ear if needed. Internet access is available in the centre allowing easy contact with home.

Weekend excursions include a day trip to lake-side towns on Lac Léman (Lake Geneva) such as Evian or Yvoire with a town trail and some time at the beach. On the other day, we organise an adventure activity sich as white-water rafting or mountain biking with a picnic.

Student welfare is of utmost importance to us. All of our staff are qualified to work with junior groups as activity leaders or language teachers. All students will be met at Geneva airport or Thonon train station by a representative from our partner transfer company. Accommodation and activities included in this programme are all accredited by the French government (Ministère de Jeunesse et Sports) to welcome junior groups. Students will be supervised during all tuition, breaks and activities and our activity coordinators stay on-site with the juniors.

And a couple of testimonials….

“Our children have had many lessons from the Alpine French School team who are all fabulous teachers, very experienced with children and they make the lessons great fun? Our children have really enjoyed their lessons and have progressed a lot. Morzine is a great place for young teenagers to be as there is so much to do in summer and it always feels safe. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Helen and her team”. Imogen Makower, London

“C’était un super bon expérience, c’était très cool! Je voudrais bien rentrer ici, je suis un peu triste de partir.” Hanna Frankenberger, Germany

You can read more about the programme in our online brochure:

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The price for the all-inclusive programme is 1845€ for 2 weeks.

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