- Nantes: Programme A - Homestay with Language Courses
- Biarritz: Programme B - Intensive pre-Leaving Cert courses
- Bordeaux, Paris: Programme C - Homestay without Courses
- Bordeaux, Paris: Programme D - Exchange
Nantes: Programme A - Homestay with Language Courses
July
Homestay with intensive courses (30 hours over 3 weeks) plus supervised afternoon activities: sports, painting on fabric, theatre workshops and cultural visits in and around the beautiful and historic area of Nantes.
- Expert Tuition
- Improve your grades
- Increase your fluency
- Enhance your listening skills
- Perfect your written production
| Region: | Historic Nantes in the beautiful Loire Atlantique |
| Flights: | Dublin - Nantes direct |
| Travel: | Travel arrangements, for all participating students are made by parents or legal guardians. |
| Price Includes: | Stay with a French family, insurance during the stay, supervision by French Representative as well as a 24hr emergency line, VECSI Orientation day Trinity College Dublin prior to departure and membership of VECSI. |
Biarritz: Programme B - Intensive pre-Leaving Cert courses
June, July & August
Homestay with 30 hours of intensive French courses, over 3 weeks plus action packed afternoons of supervised sporting activities, Surfing, Body boarding, Golf, Pétanque with day trips and visits.
Biarritz is beautifully located on the South East Coast of France - Pyreéneées Atlantiques. VECSI has specially chosen Biarritz, a famous international surfing and seaside resort as one of the venues for it's French language courses and activities programme. Biarritz is a vibrant cosmopolitan town with magnificent beaches, golf courses and numerous sporting facilities, not forgetting surf. Surfing started in France, in Biarritz and surfers come from all over the world to ride the waves.
- Choose your own dates (departing on Sunday & returning on Saturday 3 weeks later)
- Expert Tuition
- Improve your grades
- Increase your fluency
- Enhance your listening skills
- Perfect your written production
- After an intensive morning's tuition enjoy our supervised schedule of sporting activities.
- Option: Surfing 4 days per week, contact us for prices and details.
| Region: | Biarritz |
| Flights: | Dublin/Shannon to Biarritz direct |
| Price Includes: | Full board with French Family, 30 hours of intensive French language courses, plus supervised afternoon activities, insurance during the stay in France, 24hr emergency line. VECSI orientation day Trinity College Dublin prior to departure and membership of VECSI. |
Hugely popular programme - Book Early to secure your place!
Bordeaux, Paris: Programme C - Homestay without Courses
July & August
| Programme C: | Homestay without courses - Total Immersion Programme |
| Regions: | Lyons, Biarritz & Paris |
| Flights: | Dublin to Bordeaux, Dublin to Biarritz, Cork to Paris Direct |
| Price Includes: | Full Board with French Family, insurance during the stay, 24hr emergency line, VECSI workshop in Trinity College Dublin prior to departure and membership of VECSI. |
Bordeaux, Paris: Programme D - Exchange
July & August
| Programme D: | Student Exchange, Irish students to France in July returning in August with their French Partners. |
| Regions: | Bordeaux, Paris |
| Flights: | Dublin to Bordeaux/Paris or Cork to Paris Direct |
| Price Includes: | Insurance, Administration, Supervision, 24hr Emergency Line, membership of VECSI. |
