SUMMER HOLIDAY COURSES
TYPICAL FORMAT OF A TEN-DAY SUMMER COURSE
Activities and expeditions vary according to weather conditions and what is on locally at the time – special events include concerts, fireworks, a harvest festival – occasionally, the Tour de France comes to Dinan!
Dinners at Le Grand Osier are followed by various games, songs or puzzles. We encourage our students to bring portable musical instruments; we have a piano, an electronic keyboard, a pedal organ and several guitars, and students who play any of these instruments are welcome to bring their sheet music and practise, or even entertain us.
At the end of the course, a course journal is written and sent to each student, his/her parents, and his/her teachers at school, together with an account on the progress he/she made during the week.
TYPICAL FORMAT OF A TEN-DAY SUMMER COURSE
- Sunday: Arrival. Teaching sessions arranged according to arrival times. Dinner en famille at Le Grand Osier.
- Monday: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. classroom session. Lunch en famille followed by an introductory project in Dinan. On return, discussion of project followed by homework and classroom and/or one-to-one sessions as appropriate. Dinner at Le Grand Osier.
- Tuesday: As Monday, with afternoon expedition to a museum. Dinner either at Le Grand Osier, with friends or in a local restaurant.
- Wednesday: As Monday, with afternoon expedition to Chateaubriand’s chateau in Combourg. Dinner either at Le Grand Osier, with friends or in a local restaurant.
- Thursday: Classroom session 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. followed by visit to Dinan market (with project). Lunch at Le Grand Osier followed by classroom session 2.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Homework (and one-to-one sessions) as usual; dinner either at Le Grand Osier, with friends or in a local restaurant.
- Friday: As Monday, with afternoon project in Saint Malo. Dinner either at Le Grand Osier, with friends or in a local restaurant.
- Saturday: As Monday, with free time or afternoon expedition depending on weather. Dinner either at Le Grand Osier, with friends or in a local restaurant.
- Sunday: lie-in; optional attendance to Mass in local parish church. After lunch, classroom session 2.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. followed by homework (and one-to-one sessions) as usual. Dinner at Le Grand Osier.
- Monday: As previous Monday, with afternoon treasure hunt in Dinan. Dinner either at Le Grand Osier, with friends or in a local restaurant.
- Tuesday: As Monday, with afternoon visit to Léhon abbey and monastery. Walk along the Rance towpath. End-of-course celebration at Le Grand Osier, with dinner and entertainment.
- Wednesday: Departures. Teaching sessions arranged according to departure times.
Activities and expeditions vary according to weather conditions and what is on locally at the time – special events include concerts, fireworks, a harvest festival – occasionally, the Tour de France comes to Dinan!
Dinners at Le Grand Osier are followed by various games, songs or puzzles. We encourage our students to bring portable musical instruments; we have a piano, an electronic keyboard, a pedal organ and several guitars, and students who play any of these instruments are welcome to bring their sheet music and practise, or even entertain us.
At the end of the course, a course journal is written and sent to each student, his/her parents, and his/her teachers at school, together with an account on the progress he/she made during the week.
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“As Helen says, it was hard work but the sheer range of activities, both at Le Grand Osier and out and about made it feel like a holiday!”
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At the end of each course, a course journal is written and sent to each student, each student’s parents, and each student’s teachers at school, together with an account on the progress each student made during the week.
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“Thank you for your letter including the report on Josephine’s fortnight with you, and the Course Journal which I found most interesting. What a lot you fitted in!”
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2025 DATES
Course 1 : Sunday 6th July - Wednesday 16th July
Course 2 : Sunday 20th July - Saturday 26th July
Course 3 : Sunday 27th July - Saturday 2nd August
Please refer to our travel pages for details on how to get to us.
2025 COURSE FEES
Course 1 (ten-day course) : £ 1,600
Courses 2 and 3 (one-week courses) : £ 1,360
There are no hidden “extras” while the students are at Le Grand Osier. The course price includes:
Please telephone or send an email to check the availability of places.
When you have reserved a place by telephone or email, please complete the booking form and send this to us. We will consider this a firm booking on receipt of the deposit.
Once you have paid your deposit, in the event of your cancellation, the deposit will only be refunded if we subsequently manage to fill the cancelled place.
Contact:
Caroline and Richard Tracey,
Le Grand Osier,
Saint Hélen,
22100 Dinan,
France
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Course 1 : Sunday 6th July - Wednesday 16th July
Course 2 : Sunday 20th July - Saturday 26th July
Course 3 : Sunday 27th July - Saturday 2nd August
Please refer to our travel pages for details on how to get to us.
2025 COURSE FEES
Course 1 (ten-day course) : £ 1,600
Courses 2 and 3 (one-week courses) : £ 1,360
There are no hidden “extras” while the students are at Le Grand Osier. The course price includes:
- all tuition in class,
- all individual tuition,
- the course book,
- all teaching materials,
- all projects and expeditions, including entry fees to exhibitions, concerts and other events,
- accommodation and full board (including dinners in restaurants),
- the alcoholic beverages (beer, cider or wine) which accompany lunch and dinner.
- tea, coffee, soft drinks, fresh fruit and biscuits stocked in the students’ house, to which the students may freely help themselves.
- all transfers to and from Rennes airport, Saint Malo ferry port and Dol-de-Bretagne railway station.
- a full report on work covered in class and all projects and expeditions (the course journal) as well as an individual report on the progress of each student, sent to parents, the student and the student’s school.
Please telephone or send an email to check the availability of places.
When you have reserved a place by telephone or email, please complete the booking form and send this to us. We will consider this a firm booking on receipt of the deposit.
Once you have paid your deposit, in the event of your cancellation, the deposit will only be refunded if we subsequently manage to fill the cancelled place.
Contact:
Caroline and Richard Tracey,
Le Grand Osier,
Saint Hélen,
22100 Dinan,
France
- French landline: (00) 33 296 83 37 79
- French mobile: 00 33 695 44 40 20
- email: [email protected]
- Or contact us using the form on the contacts page.
Features of our courses
Travel information
FORMS
We will send you the relevant forms by email when you contact us.
Or…
Look at other courses
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