New location of blog

Hello everyone,

The Sir Laurence blog has now moved to its new location on our main website:

http://www.studiocambridge.co.uk/summer-camps/language-course-sir-laurence/

We hope that you find it easily - please contact us if you need any help.

Kind regards,
Sir Laurence team

It's goodbye from Sir Laurence!

Tonight marks the final evening of the Sir Laurence course and what a great summer it has been! The weather has been fantastic, the students have been a pleasure and the mood at the Sir Laurence camp has been great. Here's to the end of a very happy summer - we hope you all enjoyed your stay with us :)

The end of an era

This week marks our final week at Sir Laurence and the end of a fantastic summer. We have met students from all over the world and we hope that they have made life-long friends during their stay. On Sunday we said goodbye to a number of students including our four Thai students who made quite an impact during their time here - it seemed that the whole residence wanted to say goodbye! This week we have also seen a number of Skype video conversations between past and present students, and it has been heartwarming to see them all speaking English together. We look forward to the last couple of days at Sir Laurence, and hope that everyone has had brilliant time with us, and enjoyed a very British summer. :)

 

All the students saying goodbye

A  lovely gift from our two Danish students, Johanne and Emma :)

'İyiki doğdun' Beril and Ilke :)

Yesterday we organised a surprise birthday party for 2 of our Turkish students, Beril and Ilke, whose birthdays are only a day apart! We decorated the dining hall with Turkish flags, made placemats with common Turkish phrases on and ate lots of Turkish food together. After dinner, three of our exceptionally talented students; Johanne, Ilke and Alvile each played two pieces of music on the piano for us all to enjoy - and for once, all the students were quiet! When the candles on the cakes were lit, we sang Happy Birthday in Turkish and Beril and Ilke thanked us for the party. We hope they both had wonderful birthdays :)

 

 

Shakespearean Studio

Yesterday evening, some of the students went to watch a production of Shakespeare's 'King Lear' in the gardens of a University college. Despite initial concern, the weather was very kind to us, and allowed for an enjoyable outdoor performance. Teresa commented that the acting was fantastic, and this show marked her third Shakespeare performance during her stay here!

'Ege's Great!'

The winning team and their winning design! :)

Great Student Bake Off!

This week we decided to test the students creativity skills in a Great Student Bake Off. Students were split into groups of 5 and were each given a set of matching ingredients; a sponge base, fairy cakes, jam, cream, digestive biscuits, chocolate buttons, milk chocolate, strawberry laces, kiwi fruits, strawberries and one banana. They each had 30 minutes in which to design a dessert and some of the designs were great and very well thought out, including a cake to celebrate the historic arrival of the Royal baby! Students then had time to construct their desserts, and then had to present their dessert to the rest of the group. Our winners made a cake to resemble one of their team members, 'Ege', and explained the design with 9 reasons, one of them being 'Ege is great!'