History of The Canterbury Summer School

• Canterbury Summer School founder, Dallas Harris writes below on the history and background of the school:

  Dear Visitor

  Canterbury Summer School is a unique, family run English language summer school. Over ten years of experience in teaching in Waldorf schools and English foreign language schools have gone into its design. The summer school programme is packed full of social and educational activities, including: English language lessons, singing and games; Drama, Craft work, Sport, cultural excursions and sightseeing, shopping opportunities and the chance to get to know and live with an English family.

  I started teaching English as a Foreign Language while I was still living in my parents’ house in Canterbury in 1992. My family hosted young people from Italy, Germany and France; they came to stay with us and to join in with family life and I taught them English. After this I studied for a qualification in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and gained my Certificate in English Language Teaching (CELTA) from the University of Cambridge in 1997.

  At this time, my wife Judi and I had opened an English Language School in Durban, South Africa. Our students were mostly Zulu and Xhosa speakers, but later students from all over the world came to study at The English Centre – Durban. The English Centre also became the first school in South Africa to offer University of Cambridge CELTA courses, giving local South Africans the opportunity to gain internationally recognised English language teaching qualifications.

  When my children were 4 and 2 years old we left South Africa and came to live in Canterbury. I studied in London to become a Waldorf teacher and got a job as a class teacher at Perry Court Rudolf Steiner School. For three years I taught on their Summer School. When the school stopped offering a summer school, I continued on my own and Canterbury Summer School was born. That was in 2005.

  Since then I have run a summer school each year and every year the course just gets better! It has been a privilege meeting and working with so many dynamic young people. I hope you will consider joining us in 2012. I know you will be glad if you do!

  I look forward to seeing you at Canterbury Summer School.

  Dallas Harris
  Canterbury Summer School founder and teacher

Languages

•  English
  •   Deutsch
  •   Español

Telephone:

+44 (0) 7780773470

Email:

dallasharris@live.co.uk





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Canterbury Summer School

       

29 The Grove
    Canterbury
  Kent, U.K
  CT4 6PP