<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Skool Cornwall ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Skool is a language school for adults in Cornwall. We combine language courses with immersive afternoon experiences. ]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:51:39 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.skoolcornwall.com/it/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Moving Mind: Why Walking the Coast Path is the Ultimate Language Lesson.]]></title><description><![CDATA[At Skool Cornwall, we have always believed that the best English lessons happen when the mind is in motion, when learning is dynamic, and when it happens in context—particularly when that context is here in St Agnes, on the wild Cornish cliffs.]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/why-walking-is-the-ultimate-language-lesson</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d52272b75c5d3058256cee</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:30:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_76107ef0af304563b3796c4d7cb9413a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn, Live, Explore: Reflecting on a wonderful year at Skool Cornwall]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/reflecting-on-a-wonderful-year</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698492001e5564677002ced6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_136ea055a7d1437ca013b357eff31fd3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn at Skool: Meet the people at the heart of your language journey]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/meet-the-people-at-the-heart-of-your-language-journey</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698496b9840b9b8e1d2c0a6d</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:20:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_b6f0e9b5725e4beea752c5ac10e20e91~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From kitchen to conversation: Learning English over dinner]]></title><description><![CDATA[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’re sharing a meal,...]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/from-kitchen-to-conversation-learning-english-over-dinner</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69849c49e14322a9a90eaa22</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_ffdaf069172d4c929b1db60457e7207b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being Human]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 kindness and warmth of...]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/being-human</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6985fc8996663872685edb65</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_8c16094bda4e49e8b0922ada06fbae4a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the weather]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/all-the-weather</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6984a07c0659032ed49b34fb</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_424cf055ec1647498506e17a9ed8fd1a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present tense at Skool Cornwall]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/the-present-tense-at-skool-cornwall</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6985f9cae14322a9a911b084</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_8a7a4c487ff041cfae1531816d11f1b1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rhythm of English language learning]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/the-rhythm-of-english-language</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698601352cdf2c42d92c1517</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_e85c066591d54180b266bfa73f57f68e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walking the South West Coast Path, and learning English with Skool]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/learning-english-while-walking</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6985fdb62cdf2c42d92c0d51</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_e94f5cf8bca74f7ebb39f18ff24bd528~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_942,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearing The Grass Grow]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/hearing-the-grass-grow</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6986000d7004b3790551cc43</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_9e35dc45616d42e1af6505ba70260934~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_900,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret Gardens in Cornwall ]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/secret-gardens-in-cornwall</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698a18af47f8ba6cdb912596</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_0f5bec0a4b2d4b4ab5b9def0f65a9ee5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weathering. Sprachreisen Cornwall. Inglese in Cornovaglia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weather in Cornwall is not as unpredictable as you’d think: we get all the weather, but seldom snow. This week, however, on the last day of November, snow returned. For us it was a complete surprise. Imagine the entire Cornish population staring at up at the clouds in awe, and you’ll get a little closer to our collective amazement. ]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/weathering-sprachreisen-cornwall</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698a1fd1d471d728ee694602</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_2294762935d348c3803f1171a578614d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seasons shifting: Spring, Summer, and Autumn Gold. Sprachreisen nach Cornwall.]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/seasons-shifting-spring-summer-and-autumn-gold-sprachreisen-nach-cornwall</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9b2073219c84449936727</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_b890fd0e20894c67b96d7b5afdde284b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting away from the big everything in Autumn]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 of 21st century capitalism, progress is synonymous with expansion; always more, always bigger.]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/getting-away-from-the-big-everything-in-autumn</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9b3fe2ed53b993db960a6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_b6f36ff5282a4c90a18916b6931b5532~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn Update]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/autumn-update</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9b8485303a105b06ca785</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_8a7a4c487ff041cfae1531816d11f1b1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bildungsurlaub in Cornwall]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 language skills our tutees develop with us. ]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/bildungsurlaub-in-cornwall</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9b6683df4a8950cf63726</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_04937da979a341668a2f5c122e55d759~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Englisch und Wandern in Cornwall: Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. Joy.]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.  ]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/englisch-und-wandern-in-cornwall-live-in-the-sunshine-swim-the-sea-drink-the-wild-air-joy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9b4e2fde2f1f6ed28e94c</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2022 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_b40beece3a5544feb06a0a7f6b77600b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprachreisen nach Cornwall: connecting with the natural world. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/sprachreisen-nach-cornwall-connecting-with-the-natural-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9b7435303a105b06ca499</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 20:22:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_3ec010e20f2f4cf390970a453ffc06da~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running Sustainably]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 in December the mad sea is crashing and tumbling.]]></description><link>https://www.skoolcornwall.com/post/running-sustainably</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9b8d09f707efd84e25f08</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8cfa20_c6f67fde617c430c800e816ef9a34e2f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Toby Keane </dc:creator></item></channel></rss>