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UK TOP SCHOOLS 2020 .

Community spirit

Joshua Coffey of Concord College CONCORD COLLEGE

sums up forty years of summer fun

Concord College Summer School is 40 seems engaging. As a
years old this year. What makes it marketer, I’m often
special? doing laps of the
he college is stunning, and the campus behind the
Summer School is an amazing, fun lens of the camera,
environment to be in. From the wishing I could get
Thustle and bustle of planning, then involved.
preparing during the short time between standards. That’s why so many students
main term finishing and summer school Concord is a boarding school where return year after year for our summer courses.
starting, I personally feel an anxious sense of the majority of students are Boarding parents are there for the
excitement. I wonder if it’s the same for international. Is that important? students, day and night, and create a safe,
everyone? The college benefits from an international homely environment. From my experience,
From the moment students arrive, it’s a community. With more than 35 nationalities all of the staff deliver the best possible care –
happy place to be. attending during main term and each whether it’s student homesickness, health or
I’m a huge fan of the staff – from the summer course, we’re able to provide wellbeing. Great education and safety go
teachers to the sports team, every activity students with the British boarding experience hand in hand, especially after 40 years!
whilst learning to understand other cultures. Joshua Coffey has
CONCORD COLLEGE meeting new people creates a summer school worked for Concord
I think the mixture of nationalities and
full of excitement. You can actually feel the
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buzz. The sense of community makes it a
& Alumni
place that students can feel at home.

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For parents, safety and education are Department, and as
Assistant for the
often the biggest concern… Summer School,
As the standard of education here is so high, since September
naturally the safety meets the same 2017.

CONCORD COLLEGE

Summer School

English courses Science courses University preparation Activities & enrichment

Foundations for Academic Success
+44 (0)1694 731631
summer.course@concordcollege.org.uk
www.concordcollegeuk.com/summer-school

28 March 2020