• Exciting, supervised activity programme in every afternoon and evening (or all day on weekends)
• Welcome & Farewell Meetings
• Graduation Ceremony
• Town Walks, Photo Rallies, Scavenger Hunts
• Sports (Football, Beach Volleyball, Basketball, Dodge ball, Workouts)
• Beach Activities (e.g. Beach Games, Badminton)
• Workshops (Arts & Crafts, Health & Beauty, Food & Drinks, Digital/Trendy, Dance, Henna Tattoos)
• Welcome & Farewell Theme Parties, Movie Nights, Quiz Nights, Game Nights (Casino Nights, Murder mystery, Treasure hunts, Haunted house), Chill Nights (Karaoke, Barbeque, Bonfire), IP’s Got Talent
• Chill-out zones with table tennis, badminton and football tables
• One half-day trip during your first week (e.g. Durdle Door (Jurassic Coast), Winchester, Southampton, Swanage or Salisbury)
• One further half-day trip and one full day trip for each additional week (e.g. Bath, Brighton, Oxford or London)

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Excursions are a part of our programme and included in the price. During your first week you have one half-day trip included. If you stay more than one week you will have one additional half-day excursion and one full day trip per additional week.

Each trip consists of a guided tour of the area with some interesting background information and stops at the nicest photo locations. Our supervisors will not only tell you more about the city but also where the coolest shops and cafés are, because after the guided tour you will have some free time with your friends for shopping and discovering on your own! The amount of free time allowed depends on the students’ age. We reserve the right to organise excursions by public transport.

Half-day trip destinations: Durdle Door (Jurassic Coast), Winchester, Southampton, Swanage or Salisbury

Full day trip destinations: Bath, Brighton, Oxford or London

Bournemouth is ideal for surfing (wave riding). For those of you who want to combine English lessons and the surf experience, we offer this special course with our surf partner in Bournemouth. In the mornings you will attend the General or Intensive English course with your fellow students.

The surfing course consists of three afternoons with two lessons each. Equipment will be provided. Depending on the weather, tide and the size of the waves the surf lessons might vary. Therefore, paddle boarding is offered as an alternative when the weather conditions don’t allow surfing.

Please bear in mind that booking this course combination may prevent you from joining other activities or a scheduled excursion.

This special is not included in the programme and must be booked in advance at least 2 weeks prior arrival.

Price: £144.00

Live and socialise with your fellow students from many different countries in our residence! It offers self-contained flats of 5-6 single study-bedrooms. Each bedroom has a private shower, toilet and washbasin and there is a common room in each flat. Bed-linen is provided, but please bring your own towels (do not forget beach towels!).

Public laundrettes with coin-operated washing and drying machines as well as public phone booths are situated in or close to the residence. A safe is not available, but you will get a key to lock your room. Also, our supervisors live in the residence and are available for any inquiries.

You’ll get full board accommodation that includes breakfast, warm lunch and dinner. We cater for vegetarians and special diets e.g. gluten free, lactose free and halal. Please advise at least 14 days prior arrival about any special diet. All meals are taken in the self-service refectory of the school, which is just a 10-minute-walk from the residence.

You may also stay in a twin room (triple rooms on request ) with one of our friendly homestay hosts, most of whom have been welcoming students for many years. Some live close to the campus while others are a bus-ride away in Bournemouth, Poole or Christchurch (on average 30, max. 45 minutes, costs for public transport not included – weekly bus ticket approx. £17). Our hosts are not always traditional families with children but can also be single with or without children, older people and young families with or without children, but all of them have been carefully selected by our team. You will share the room with another IP student of the same sex and approx. the same age but if possible of a different nationality. If you are travelling with a friend and you’d like to share the room please advise at the time of your booking.

Homestay accommodation is a good opportunity for independent students who like to learn something about the everyday life of a British family. You will get full board accommodation (breakfast, packed lunch and dinner). Vegetarian food is also available. All other special diets or food allergies on request only and with supplement. Halal and kosher food is not available. Please advise at least 4 weeks prior arrival about any special diet.

You participate in a compulsory programme consisting of a wide choice of afternoon activities and at least one planned evening activity. During town walks our staff will accompany you into town. You will then have the opportunity to explore the city centre with your friends in pairs or bigger groups for a period of up to two hours.

Teenagers aged 16 or 17 are free to experience and explore things with their friends in pairs or bigger groups on and off campus. Our supervisors provide a good mix of supervision and personal freedom for this age group. Participation in the afternoon activity programme is voluntary for students over the age of 16.

You will be part of a TTT (Time to Talk) group of up to 25 students. In the lunchtime TTT you tell your supervisor what you want to do in the afternoon and the supervisor will put you in the respective sign-up list which will be checked when the programme starts. The same happens at the dinner time TTT for the evening event.

You can choose a Self-Arranged Journey from the airport in the UK to our centre in Bournemouth. This requires you to be accompanied by your parent(s) or a Guardian from the airport to Bournemouth or from Bournemouth to the airport. Please respect the required arrival and departure times. You should arrive between 09:00 and 18:00 on your arrival day. On departure day you should be picked up after 9:00, after Breakfast.

We also offer a Low Budget transfer from/to London Heathrow for all our UK centres (on Sundays only). Transfers will be provided by well-known coach companies with DBS checked drivers. Fly into Heathrow airport between 10:00 and 16:30 on the day of arrival and our Meet & Greet Service will be waiting for you at the terminal and will accompany you to your transfer service. Our coach shuttle will depart from Heathrow, or a nearby pick up station, at approximately 18:00. After approximately 4 hours you will be dropped off at the school in Bournemouth. This service can be booked as a return service only.

On the day of departure (on Saturdays only), you will be dropped off at Heathrow at about 11:00 – so please book your flight after 14:00. A staff member will help you to your terminal and check you in. In the morning the transfer departs from our school in Bournemouth (Europa School of English).

If you book an Unaccompanied Minors service with your airline, please request our Unaccompanied Minors service. The Low Budget Transfer is only available on the indicated arrival and departure days.

In case you can’t meet the required times for the Low Budget Transfer we are happy to organise Individual Transfers for you from/to London Heathrow or Gatwick with well-known taxi and transfer companies with DBS checked drivers. We offer a one way service to the centre and /or a return service to the airport for a flat rate. On the day of arrival our Meet & Greet Service will be waiting for you at the exit area of customs and will, if not requested otherwise, take you directly to our school in Bournemouth, where students will either be picked up by their hosts or walk to the residence.

On the day of departure, you will leave Bournemouth as required in order to make sure you arrive at the airport in time. Our driver will accompany the students to their terminal and check-in desk.

If you book an Unaccompanied Minors service with your airline, please request our Unaccompanied Minors service also.

Out-of-hours arrivals/departures: you will in most cases be taken/picked up directly to/from the homestay or the residence. Please note that host family student arrivals/departures between 6:00 and 22:00 will be collected by their hosts at the school and dropped off by their hosts there. For very early/late arrivals/departures in/from the centre (24.00-6.00), an alternative accommodation needs to be arranged.