Comments from students

'Everything’s so different now, I don’t know quite what, but it’s like I am not the same person who went away. The week’s really changed me’.
A student from Morpeth School, Bethnal Green, London

‘While Mrs Cole was talking to the class about the course I didn’t really listen because I knew I wasn’t exactly the smartest in the class and didn’t think I’d be picked… a few months later Mrs Cole asked 5 boys and 5 girls to come to her class because she had some good news. She told us that we were the ones chosen for the course. I could not believe how fortunate I was.’
A student from Castle High School, Belfast

'Lesley and Neil (the course tutors) were amazing – they were so kind and taught us so much – I will take the experience with me for the rest of my life.'
A student from Brooksbank School, Halifax


Comments from teachers

‘It was such a rewarding experience… the students’ confidence and written work improved and developed a real maturity.’
Jane Button, Media teacher at Newham Sixth Form College

‘It was one of my very best experiences as a teacher’
Sally Allan, Speke Community School

‘The residential as a whole was a social and academic success… an assured recipe for creative empowerment.’
Dave Cryer, Brooksbank School