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Downe House School occupies extensive grounds in Berkshire and offers excellent facilities.

The centre is ideally situated just 45 minutes from Heathrow airport, and 1.5h from central London.

Facilities

  • Variety of residential boarding houses each with large common rooms
  • Stunning modern classrooms
  • Large dining facility
  • Modern performing arts block
  • Indoor swimming pool
  • Outdoor playing fields and tennis courts
  • Large indoor sports hall

Accommodation

  • Mix of modernised residential boarding houses
  • Twin, triple and quad rooms with a few single rooms
  • Shared bathroom facilities (bathroom:student ratio of 1:4).
  • Boys and girls are housed in different accommodation areas/ boarding houses
  • Each boarding house has its own large common room to relax

Meal plan

  • Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided every day.
  • Lunch and dinner are usually hot; on excursion days students are given a packed lunch.

Special dietary requirements

  • Vegetarian always available. Others available on request.

Programmes available at Downe House

Summer Course

15 hours of English lessons per week plus full programme of sports, activities and excursions.

  • Start dates: 9, 16, 23, 30 July, 6 August 2025
  • Duration: 1 – 4 weeks
  • Minimum entry level: Beginner
  • Age range: 12 – 17 (10+ as part of a group)

Summer Course Plus Golf

Everything the Summer Course offers plus 6 hours per week of professional golf coaching at a local golf course.

  • Start dates: 9, 16, 23, 30 July, 6 August 2025
  • Duration: 1 – 4 weeks
  • Minimum entry level: Beginner
  • Age range: 12 – 17 (10+ as part of a group)
More about Summer Course & Summer Course Plus

Summer Course Plus Harry Potter

Everything the Summer Course offers plus 3 hours per week of Harry Potter related activities and dedicated visits in Oxford and to the Warner Brother Studios.

  • Start dates: 9 & 30 July 2025
  • Duration: 2 weeks
  • Minimum entry level: Beginner
  • Age range: 12 – 17 (10+ as part of a group)

Proud of our nationality mix

The best way to learn another language is to have to speak it to communicate so we make sure we mix nationalities and get the young learners to use English in and outside the classroom.

See in the graphic the nationality mix at our Newbury centre in Summer 2024.

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