LAL News

Friday 20th November is BBC Children in Need and LAL Torbay will be raising money for charity. The BBC Children in Need appeal raises funds for projects which help children in the UK, and we will be running competitions and quizzes, plus a cake sale and other special events to raise money. For full details, please see posters around the school.

LAL Torbay offers a Budget English course several times a year, which costs less than a third of our cheapest General English course. Our next courses start on 18th January for 2 and 4 weeks.

Why do we do it? This course is part of our teacher-training programme. This programme, for the qualification of Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), is a Cambridge University validated course for training teachers who are new to teaching English as a foreign language - and these trainee teachers need practice.

 The students who attend the Budget English courses are taught by the trainee teachers and qualified teachers.

 The Budget English lessons are taken as either 2 or 4-week courses consisting of 3 hours of lessons a day. Each day the students will have 1 hour with a qualified teacher and 2 hours with teachers-in-training who are closely supervised by a Cambridge University approved trainer. Students MUST attend for the full 3 hours each day.

LAL London, our brand new school which opens on 4th January 2009, will teach IELTS on an individual basis to any level Elementary (A2) and above.
If your long-term study goal is entry to a university in the UK, South Africa, Australia or New Zealand a high score in the IELTS exam is required. LAL London will offer preparatory courses (varying in length from 1 to 8 weeks) which provide practice in the important skills university-bound students require - e.g. essay writing and lecture note-taking. There will be 18 lessons General English Focus + 9 private tuition lessons dedicated to specific IELTS test preparation per week.

Last year's pantomime 'Cinderella' was a great success, with pupils and staff taking on the roles and an enthusiastic audience booing the villains and cheering the goodies.

LAL will once again be staging a pantomime this December - Aladdin Under the Sea - and we would like you help with scenery and production. If you would like to help, please see Lorraine in the Teaching Staff Room or the Academic Office in Room 1.01.

In most months we publish information about a place you might like to visit, from towns and ciities to walks. Now these are being made available on-line at the StopPress website so that you can get quick inspiration for places to visit. Each destination is available as a PDF with photographs and a brief description of how to get there, as well as history and key sights to see.

Our Days Out sheets are available on the StopPress website here.