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Learn, Live, Explore: Reflecting on a wonderful year at Skool Cornwall
2025 has been a remarkable year at Skool Cornwall. We have welcomed many English language students to our beautiful context in St Agnes. We’ve made real connections, and I know I can speak for my colleagues when I say that teaching our clients is incredibly rewarding.

Toby Keane
Dec 22, 20252 min read


Autumn at Skool: Meet the people at the heart of your language journey
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.

Annie
Sep 21, 20253 min read


From kitchen to conversation: Learning English over dinner
If you want to learn or improve your English, a language holiday to Cornwall with Skool combines learning with sea air, friendly faces, and (at least in our house) a kitchen table that seems to attract long conversations like a magnet. We’re not your teachers; we’re your hosts. We take over when your English course at Skool wraps up for the day, and that’s when the fun continues. We cook, pour the wine, and create a space where you can relax, eat, and chat. Because when you’r

Annie
May 25, 20253 min read


Being Human
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 the natural beauty here – the Atlantic Ocean, its myriad colours, the wind beaten blackthorn and hawthorns trees, and the kindn

Toby Keane
Mar 12, 20252 min read


All the weather
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.

Toby Keane
Feb 25, 20253 min read


The present tense at Skool Cornwall
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 often the main reason for visiting.

Toby Keane
Dec 12, 20243 min read


The rhythm of English language learning
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 more changeable. These recent cooler temperatures are still a surprise.

Toby Keane
Sep 10, 20244 min read


Walking the South West Coast Path, and learning English with Skool
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.

Toby Keane
Jul 31, 20243 min read


Hearing The Grass Grow
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.

Toby Keane
May 14, 20243 min read
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