Toby Keane 
Sprachreisen Cornwall. Erkunden Sie die Landschaft Cornwalls. For those of you who have already studied with us, you might have remembered my interest (and obsession) with Philip Larkin. If you remember, then it’s likely that we studied his poem ‘The Trees’. With each coming spring the poem is on my mind. I watch the hedgerows hopefully for the first new … Read More
Our small classes and adult only ethos has captured the imagination of our clients.
The first of many daffodils in St Agnes makes its appearance in late January. It is the first colour after the subdued winter, when hedgerows are green and brown, but for the occasional Red Campion that peeks out from the murk. The shifting seasons, and the changing colour of the countryside is very much our interest here at Skool. Each season … Read More
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour In a world of giant corporations and the pervasive influence of technology on our lives, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to escape the gravity of mainstream macro culture. According to the zeitgeist … Read More
In spite of being a year of global upheaval (is there any other kind these days?) 2022 was a good year for Skool, a year of growth for the business and for us too, as teachers and guides. Our students gave us a lot to think about this year. They made us think about how fortunate we are to live … Read More
At Skool, as providers of language courses and cultural experiences, we are fortunate enough to benefit from the mutually enriching exchange of ideas and experiences across cultures. This is why we exist as a business, and because learning is never a one-sided process, we gain just as much from the relationships we make in the act of teaching as the … Read More
May is here already and spring has truly sprung. Northern European winters are long and dark, and even though the climate is milder here in Cornwall than the rest of The UK, we’re happy that the Earth has spun around the sun and our students are returning along with the warm days and long evenings. April was a busy month … Read More
I’m tied to my phone again. To the email app more specifically, and the alerts, and the calendar. Sometimes it feels like I live my life through this thing. I make schedules out of the day, and attempt, as we all do, to keep appointments – to get things done. This state of mind works like a kind of vortex … Read More
This morning I went running. It was my usual route, through the village, and then out towards the Beacon. The road (if you’ve been here you’ll know) circumvents the hill itself, and as you climb there is an extremely lovely view south – you can see the north coast coves in a row: Chapel Porth, Porthtowan, Portreath, and Godrevey, and … Read More
The pandemic has revealed so much about our behaviour, and has brought sharply brought into focus our metal wellbeing, and how we do business. In 2019 more than £4.2 billion was spent in the UK on language learning alone – we’re an industry that carries with it a great weight of responsibility, not to mention carbon. In her informative, and … Read More