Toby Keane 
As Autumn approaches, things are starting to quiet down here in Cornwall. It’s been a busy and wonderful year at Skool, welcoming many new faces as well as our returning students, which is always a joy. For those who visited us this year, we hope you’re still smiling at the memories of impromptu swims (and wrapping up in Toby’s infamous … Read More
As an English language school, we are very interested in the sound of language. And we are, as you would expect, very interested in encouraging talk, and encouraging our clients to use adventurous vocabulary, phrases and grammar. Our unique setting enables this experimentation. It is a place that gets to you. And by that I mean that the proximity of … Read More
It’s raining cats and dogs is an idiom I have never used other than to express, by way of example, how idioms can often serve as dead metaphors. In other words, the language has stopped working as it should. Since the phrase has been so commonplace there is not an adult English speaker alive who imagines dogs or cats falling from … Read More
If you’re planning an English Language course in Cornwall for 2025, it’s likely that dedicating time to practising your English is a priority. It might be that you’re interested in walking the South West Coast Path too, or just spending time in our landscapes, but improving your English is always a priority.
This week there has been a drop in temperatures: cool winds from the north are blowing across the north coast of Cornwall. It feels like Autumn is already here. This cool air has come as a surprise. We have not had a particularly warm summer, typically we experience low 20s from April to October, but this year’s weather has been … Read More
It can be quite unnerving to use English in ways that don’t seem appropriate at all. When we say something is stunning – we mean that it is visually attractive; it’s a synonym for beautiful. To use the phrase, as our student Sonja has here, may at first seem quite strange. It is as if she is saying that her … Read More
Sprachreisen Cornwall. Inglese in Cornovaglia. Over the last 5 years, there have been 30 sightings of Humpback Whales off our Cornish coast, with at least one recorded incident of spectacular breaching (leaping from the water). There are often sightings of Fin Whales too, and these gentle giants are some 50ft long – and whilst they are regular visitors to our … Read More
Sprachreisen Cornwall. Erkunden Sie die Landschaft Cornwalls. For those of you who have already learned English 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 … 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