“I feel completely at ease when I send my young ones off to Junior French camp”
For the last couple of years, Emile and Léon signed up for different Junior French language camps organised by Roeland. “My children are having a fun time; the staff members are professionals, and I can follow their adventures via the daily blog posts. I know for sure that my children are being looked after at the language camp”, mom Clara testifies.
How do you know your children are having a fun time at camp?
Clara: “I can tell from the letters they send me. They are filled to the brim with fun anecdotes of the adventures at camp. And when I look at the Roeland blog, all I see are smiling little faces. I like that we receive photos and a journal on a daily basis.”
“I read and hear about how clever the camp activities are being developed. The games are designed to let the children play with each other. And the creative assignments are also fun to do. The children are never bored.”
How can you tell the children are actually learning at the Junior French language camp?
“Every time they learn a sizable number of novel words. They showed me the worksheets they filled in at camp. And the children also take pride in the little works of art they made.”
“The children pick up French vocabulary faster and they remember it better, something their teachers at primary school clearly noticed. It’s probably because they heard most of these words already at the camp, perhaps in a different context. They also apply the new vocabulary faster."
“Besides, their pronunciation of French words surpasses the level of their classmates who did not have that kind of experience with the French language before.”
What, in your opinion, is the strength of Roeland?
“I can speak from my own experience: Roeland bows on a year-long tradition of exquisite care for children. You can tell the staff members are true professionals with a solid training curriculum. They teach language in a fun and playful manner.”
And, at the start of the camp week the parents receive the Head of Camp’s contact information. If necessary, you can always send a message. That’s very reassuring, for me and for the children.”
“The fact that at the end of summer camp, every child gets a report card to inform the parents about their son or daughter’s progress throughout the language labs is another Roeland forte, in my opinion. Based on that evaluation, we decided to enrol our eldest son for an immersion camp because his skills were too advanced for the Junior camps. So last winter he joined a skiing camp and that turned out to be a big hit.”