Group Mini-Stays:English Language
Residential Trips

Every junior student group is different, and so are their requirements when looking for an English language residential trip to England, therefore we design bespoke English language residential mini-stay programmes for schools and groups.

For the duration of the trip, the content of your residential programme is focused on what is important to you. We build your programme with you to include English, activities, excursions and cultural integration and ensure we meet every one of your group’s needs.

Student groups, international schools or bilingual schools looking for an English language residential trip.

In particular our mini-stay programmes can meet the requirements for:

• Dutch Bilingual / TTO Schools (meets VMBO and HAVO/VWO curricula)
• Italian PON C1 Schools
• German Bilingual Schools

We can offer opportunities for CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), educational tours, personal development activities, educational immersion opportunities visiting local high schools, colleges or universities.

We work with a ‘building block’ approach for our personalised Group residential Mini-stay programmes. Although we have identified the most popular elements that groups are looking for from their trip to England, however we are keen to meet any of our client’s requirements. Groups can choose one, a few or all of the + options below to create a bespoke group residential mini-stay, or if something is not mentioned that is mandatory for your group to do, please let us know so we can look into organising that for you too!

We can offer some brilliant activities for students to get involved in – whether it be during the day as a respite from classroom learning, your focus is teamwork, leadership and personal development, or some extra fun in the evening, we are sure you will want to include some of these in your bespoke programme.

We want to challenge students with our activities to support their developing self-confidence and leadership as well as listening and speaking language skills. We find that many students are much more confident in the classroom because they have taken part and had fun during the adventure activities. All our activities are undertaken and supervised by trained Xplore instructors.

By adding a tour or visit to your tailored Group Mini-Stay, students will be able to experience authentic England for themselves. We can offer a number of different options for getting out and about, whether it be for a morning or afternoon, a full day, a couple of days, or every day, turning your trip into a tour.

We have 3 locations for year-round group residential mini-stays in England, however we can offer hostel or hotel accommodation for groups looking for more of ‘tour’ programme, allowing the group to travel to different destinations in the UK.

All our residential venues held on large campuses suitable for group bookings, and are based in close proximity to popular cities such as London, Cambridge and Oxford.

Travel for group residential mini-stays is between September 2019 and June 2020 because this is typically school term time in England. If your dates are outside of these times, please contact us as we may still be able to accommodate you.

Most groups travel from between 4 to 14 nights, with 4 or 7 nights being the most popular, however we accept any length of trip, please contact our sales team with your preferred dates.

We offer 1 FREE adult place for every 10 students travelling. We ask that this Group Leader stays with the group at all times, and we will provide more information for them on arrival. Our mini-stay tours include a dedicated and trained Xplore representative to accompany the group during their tour.

There might be something totally different outside of these programme elements that you are looking for and no one seems to offer – that is where Xplore is different. We aim to deliver any requirement that your group has, please contact us with your request.