Summer Standard CourseGeneral
Includes:
- Tuition
- Accommodation
- Meals
- Excursions
- ActivitiesOptional extra activities: (price per week)
- Adrenalin (only for students over 13 years old): CHF 225
- Cooking: CHF 135
- Horse riding: CHF 225
- Tennis: CHF 225. Your language summer course will follow a curriculum specifically designed for younger learners delivered by experienced teachers in a welcoming environment.
- Speaking and listening skills
- Reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar
- Collaborative projects encouraging creativity, time management and leadership skills.
Activities & excursions
- Afternoon and evening activities at the school or in the local area
- Excursions to nearby landmarks and tourist attractions.
Lessons per week: 20 (45 minutes per lesson)
Summer Intensive CourseJunior (<18 years) course
Includes:
- Tuition
- Accommodation
- Meals
- Excursions
- ActivitiesOptional extra activities: (price per week)
- Adrenalin (only for students over 13 years old): CHF 225
- Cooking: CHF 135
- Horse riding: CHF 225
- Tennis: CHF 225. Your language summer course will follow a curriculum specifically designed for younger learners delivered by experienced teachers in a welcoming environment.
- Speaking and listening skills
- Reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar
- Collaborative projects encouraging creativity, time management and leadership skills.
Activities & excursions
- Afternoon and evening activities at the school or in the local area
- Excursions to nearby landmarks and tourist attractions.
Lessons per week: 25 (45 minutes per lesson)
Summer Standard Course + 5 Private LessonsJunior (<18 years) course
Includes:
- Tuition (20 group lessons and 5 private lessons)
- Accommodation
- Meals
- Excursions
- ActivitiesOptional extra activities: (price per week)
- Adrenalin (only for students over 13 years old): CHF 225
- Cooking: CHF 135
- Horse riding: CHF 225
- Tennis: CHF 225. Your language summer course will follow a curriculum specifically designed for younger learners delivered by experienced teachers in a welcoming environment.
- Speaking and listening skills
- Reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar
- Collaborative projects encouraging creativity, time management and leadership skills.
Activities & excursions
- Afternoon and evening activities at the school or in the local area
- Excursions to nearby landmarks and tourist attractions.
Lessons per week: 25 (45 minutes per lesson)
Summer Intensive Course + 5 Private LessonsJunior (<18 years) course
Includes:
- Tuition (25 group lessons and 5 private lessons)
- Accommodation
- Meals
- Excursions
- ActivitiesOptional extra activities: (price per week)
- Adrenalin (only for students over 13 years old): CHF 225
- Cooking: CHF 135
- Horse riding: CHF 225
- Tennis: CHF 225. Your language summer course will follow a curriculum specifically designed for younger learners delivered by experienced teachers in a welcoming environment.
- Speaking and listening skills
- Reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar
- Collaborative projects encouraging creativity, time management and leadership skills.
Activities & excursions
- Afternoon and evening activities at the school or in the local area
- Excursions to nearby landmarks and tourist attractions.
Lessons per week: 30 (45 minutes per lesson)
English Language CampJunior (<18 years) course
**Programme Overview**
Village Camps has over the years ingeniously crafted language-learning programmes designed to fully engage the campers. An exciting range of projects, tasks, quizzes, competitions and games inspires interest and ensures the involvement of every camper.
Emphasis is on gaining confidence and improving vocabulary so that they acquire fluency, engage in conversation and develop the skills and confidence to make a presentation to an audience.
Campers learn from new material that takes them outside their usual comfort zone but stimulates their interest, providing them with new skills.
**Accommodation and Activities**
Campers stay at the Village Camps owned and managed Swiss Alpine Centre. The centre has spacious, mainly en-suite bedrooms for 3-4 campers as well as lounges and recreational areas and impressive dining facilities. The campus is well situated just above the main village and close to its excellent sport and leisure facilities.
There are exciting excursions to Geneva, the lakeside town of Lausanne, a chocolate factory and the Water Park in nearby Aigle.
There is a variety of afternoon and evening activities both in Camp and outdoors, in which campers from all programmes participate together. These camp activities are organised and supervised by Village Camp counsellors.
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
Junior Adventure Summer Camp - No Language Lessons Junior (<18 years) course
**This course does not include language lessons.**
This programme is specially designed for the 7-9 age-group and is and offers a selection of the most suitable activities that are featured in the Sports and Adventure programmes.
The young campers are introduced to a variety of exciting activities and games. Throughout the day, experienced, caring counsellors guide young campers through a varied list of specially designed activities.
Under constant, patient supervision by the counsellors with a ratio of 1:4, campers receive clear instructions so that each feels comfortable during each activity. During every activity all precautionary safety measures are in place and followed strictly.
**Accommodation, Activities & Excursions**
Campers stay at the Village Camps owned and managed Swiss Alpine Centre. The centre has spacious, mainly en-suite bedrooms for 3-4 campers as well as lounges and recreational areas and impressive dining facilities. The campus is well situated just above the main village and close to its excellent sport and leisure facilities.
There are exciting excursions to Geneva, the lakeside town of Lausanne, a chocolate factory and the Water-Park in nearby Aigle.
There is a variety of afternoon and evening activities both in Camp and outdoors, which campers from all programmes participate together. These all camp activities are organised and supervised by Village Camp counsellors.
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
Dance Camp - No Language Lessons Junior (<18 years) course
**This course does not include language lessons.**
**Programme Overview**
The programme runs for 3 hours every weekday morning. The highly qualified Dance Director and her team deliver an outstanding dance experience, exploring many different types and styles of the dance repertoire.
From the very start the specialist dance teachers and the young dancers collaborate together to jointly develop the final performance, including:
- choosing their routines
- choosing the music
- frame the choreography
- design and make their own stage costumes
- create the stage-sets
- rehearse enthusiastically
Different types of dances are incorporated into the performances, which take into account the skills and experience of the dancers as well as the different cultures of this group - who come from all over the world.
The camp's professional and talented dance team works individually with each camper to give them complete confidence, improved skills and an expanded dance repertoire.
Each end-of session show is a complete ‘one-off’ with the campers’ individual ideas, music, moves and dances creating a new and impressive performance where the dancers will be spurred on by excited applause from the audience – the entire camp! After camp, all dance participants receive a link on the Village Camps Google Drive giving access to the end-of-camp show.
**Accommodation, Activities & Excursions**
Campers stay at the Village Camps owned and managed Swiss Alpine Centre. The centre has spacious, mainly en-suite bedrooms for 3-4 campers as well as lounges and recreational areas and impressive dining facilities. The campus is well situated just above the main village and close to its excellent sport and leisure facilities.
There are exciting excursions to Geneva, the lakeside town of Lausanne, a chocolate factory and the Water-Park in nearby Aigle.
There is a variety of afternoon and evening activities both in Camp and outdoors, which campers from all programmes participate together. These all camp activities are organised and supervised by Village Camp counsellors.
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
Sports Camp - No Language Lessons Junior (<18 years) course
**This course does not include language lessons.**
**Programme Overview**
This is the ideal programme for the active, sports-minded campers who look forward to enjoying a different sport session lasting 3 hours, every weekday morning. The daily schedule includes team and individual sports with choices made from:
- football
- basketball
- swimming
- archery
- beach volleyball
- climbing
- street hockey
- tennis
- badminton
- outdoor fitness trails
The programme includes a fun element with team games, challenges and competitions. It is a challenging, action packed programme where every camper will have fun whilst learning under the guidance of our enthusiastic and talented team of counsellors and coaches.
Although most activities in this programme take place in the alpine mountains around Leysin, the counsellors and trainers regularly take campers to the two well-equipped sports centres in town. The sports centres are top-class facilities with a wide range of sports and activities available.
In the afternoons, Sports campers join the other campers in age-appropriate groups, for more fun and all-camp activities.
**Accommodation, Activities & Excursions**
Campers stay at the Village Camps owned and managed Swiss Alpine Centre. The centre has spacious, mainly en-suite bedrooms for 3-4 campers as well as lounges and recreational areas and impressive dining facilities. The campus is well situated just above the main village and close to its excellent sport and leisure facilities.
There are exciting excursions to Geneva, the lakeside town of Lausanne, a chocolate factory and the Water-Park in nearby Aigle.
There is a variety of afternoon and evening activities both in Camp and outdoors, which campers from all programmes participate together. These all camp activities are organised and supervised by Village Camp counsellors.
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
Tennis Camp - No Language Lessons Junior (<18 years) course
**This course does not include language lessons.**
This camp programme is provided in collaboration with Leysin Tennis, who offer a dynamic and innovative approach providing each player with an unforgettable Swiss tennis experience.
Director and Head Coach Christine Suard brings over 20 years of coaching experience in Switzerland, Europe, the United States and the Emirates. The campers benefit from her vast experience - she currently trains several top-10 Swiss junior players in Leysin who are now competing internationally, and has been training our campers for over 15 summers.
Christine directs a team of experienced Swiss and international coaches and sport experts that share a real passion for tennis. The team runs a well-established, successful programme that brings out the very best in each player with campers and coaches sharing fun and lots of laughter.
**Accommodation, Activities & Excursions**
Campers stay at the Village Camps owned and managed Swiss Alpine Centre. The centre has spacious, mainly en-suite bedrooms for 3-4 campers as well as lounges and recreational areas and impressive dining facilities. The campus is well situated just above the main village and close to its excellent sport and leisure facilities.
There are exciting excursions to Geneva, the lakeside town of Lausanne, a chocolate factory and the Water-Park in nearby Aigle.
There is a variety of afternoon and evening activities both in Camp and outdoors, which campers from all programmes participate together. These all camp activities are organised and supervised by Village Camp counsellors.
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
Tennis Camp & Any Programme - No Language LessonsJunior (<18 years) course
**This course does not include language lessons.**
This programme combines three hours of a selected programme on weekday mornings and three hours of tennis instruction in the afternoons.
**Selected programmes available to chose from are:**
- Dance
- Sports
- Film Academy
- VC STEM-Robotics
- Junior Adventure Camp
Please note that these options involve a supplementary charge.
**Accommodation, Activities & Excursions**
Campers stay at the Village Camps owned and managed Swiss Alpine Centre. The centre has spacious, mainly en-suite bedrooms for 3-4 campers as well as lounges and recreational areas and impressive dining facilities. The campus is well situated just above the main village and close to its excellent sport and leisure facilities.
There are exciting excursions to Geneva, the lakeside town of Lausanne, a chocolate factory and the Water-Park in nearby Aigle.
There is a variety of afternoon and evening activities both in Camp and outdoors, which campers from all programmes participate together. These all camp activities are organised and supervised by Village Camp counsellors.
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
VC-Lab Explorers Camp - No Language Lessons Junior (<18 years) course
**This course does not include language lessons.**
Village Camps has a long tradition of outdoor education and have recently added a modern science lab to their building to enhance the opportunities for campers/students to engage in their learning. Students will be guided and taught a variety of laboratory skills before taking their curiosity to the next level by taking part in a range projects tied to National curriculums for science for ages 11-16. The aim is for Lab Explorers to love learning and want them to enjoy science which contains so many explanations to our world and chances to explore.
**Examples of projects:**
- Understanding Engineering/tools
- Biology projects- “Science in Sport”, “Diversity in nature”
- Chemistry projects- “Crime scene investigation”, “Colour magic”- Physics projects- “Up, up and away”, “Supermagnets”.
**Accommodation, Activities & Excursions**
Campers stay at the Village Camps owned and managed Swiss Alpine Centre. The centre has spacious, mainly en-suite bedrooms for 3-4 campers as well as lounges and recreational areas and impressive dining facilities. The campus is well situated just above the main village and close to its excellent sport and leisure facilities.
There are exciting excursions to Geneva, the lakeside town of Lausanne, a chocolate factory and the Water-Park in nearby Aigle.
There is a variety of afternoon and evening activities both in Camp and outdoors, which campers from all programmes participate together. These all camp activities are organised and supervised by Village Camp counsellors.
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
Leadership Training Camp - No Language LessonsJunior (<18 years) course
**This course does not include language lessons.**
This award-winning programme is led by Programme Director, David Allen, assisted by a team of experienced staff plus an international selection of renowned guest speakers, specially flown in to engage with the young leadership campers. The speakers typically fly in from the USA, South Africa and the UK. These thought-provoking presentations lead to lively discussion sessions amongst the young campers, which are interspersed with outdoor action-packed physical challenges and tasks. It adds up to an exciting new experience every day!
**This much-acclaimed Leadership Training Camp (LTC) is designed to:**
- build self-confidence
- raise self-esteem
- encourage motivation
- improve communication skills
- develop individual leadership qualities
- develop team working skills
The programme combines thought-provoking talks by specialist Village Camp staff and invited international speakers with a programme of testing challenges and action-packed activities.
**Each day is constructed around:**
- leadership training sessions
- inspiring talks from our range of top guest speakers
- talks are followed by an open question and answer session
- challenging discussions that stretch the mind
- goal-setting exercises and time management
- innovative team-building exercises and
- a programme of off-camp visits to outdoor sites
**Accommodation, Activities & Excursions**
Campers attending the Leadership Training Camp during the first exclusive session are based at the centrally located Alpine Classic Hotel where this unique programme has use of its highly rated lounges and recreational amenities. The Hotel is well situated in the centre of the village within easy walking distance to outstanding sport and leisure facilities. The comfortable bedrooms accomodate 2-4 campers all include en-suite facilities. Campers attending the LTC programme during session 2 will be staying in the camp's very own Swiss Alpine Centre with comfortable 2-4 bedded rooms, en-suite facilities and all the excitement of being part of the larger Leysin Summer Camp.
The programme has its own dedicated programme of lectures, discussions, events and activities during weekdays. On the weekend campers usually joins campers from other programmers for exciting excursions that include:
- Geneva centre and selected landmarks
- the lakeside town of Lausanne
- Maison Cailler – a chocolate factory
- Water-Park in the nearby town of Aigle
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
Language Camp + TennisJunior (<18 years) course
**Programme Overview**
This camp programme is provided in collaboration with Leysin Tennis, who offer a dynamic and innovative approach providing each player with an unforgettable Swiss tennis experience.
Each session begins with an assessment of each player, based on ability, age and their personal goals. For 3-hours each weekday morning, each player will be challanged in order to maximise their individual potential. During the two-week session players may move between categories as they make progress.
Village Camps has over the years ingeniously crafted language-learning programmes designed to fully engage the campers. An exciting range of projects, tasks, quizzes, competitions and games inspires the interest and ensure the involvement of every camper.
Emphasis is on gaining confidence and improving vocabulary so that they acquire fluency, engage in conversation and develop the skills and confidence to make a presentation to an audience.
Campers learn from new material that takes them outside their usual comfort zone but stimulates their interest, providing them with new skills.
**Accommodation, Activities & Excursions**
Campers stay at the Village Camps owned and managed Swiss Alpine Centre. The centre has spacious, mainly en-suite bedrooms for 3-4 campers as well as lounges and recreational areas and impressive dining facilities. The campus is well situated just above the main village and close to its excellent sport and leisure facilities.
There are exciting excursions to Geneva, the lakeside town of Lausanne, a chocolate factory and the Water-Park in nearby Aigle.
There is a variety of afternoon and evening activities both in Camp and outdoors, which campers from all programmes participate together. These all camp activities are organised and supervised by Village Camp counsellors.
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
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