Spanish Trip 2025

Thirty five pupils from Years 8–10 recently spent five days in the ancient port town of Aguilas, in South East Spain, where they enjoyed a varied programme of activities, including cooking Spanish food, learning to flamenco dance, water sports at the nearby beach, as well as learning about Spanish culture and history with a visit to a traditional street market and to the Roman theatre at Cartagena. In all the activities, the pupils were encouraged to develop their Spanish speaking skills.

The pupils stayed at the Arbolar Language Immersion Centre who organised all of the activities and provided a small team of native Spanish speakers, the ‘monitores’, who were brilliant at engaging the pupils as they led the activities and at helping to involve them in the use of practical spoken Spanish. They also lead Spanish vocabulary learning sessions over the course of the trip, with each pupil provided with their own workbook to complete.

At the end of the trip, the pupils provided very positive feedback – here are three examples:

‘I had so much fun on the Spanish Trip! On top of the amazing hotel, weather and food, I really liked being in Spain for the first time, and seeing and hearing things that we had learnt in lessons being used in real life. All of the activities were great, especially the watersports, and I loved spending time with my friends and making new ones.’

‘I thought that it was brilliant and I learnt many new words and phrases that are very important if you go to Spain. I thought the location was amazing and the activities were great. The lessons were very helpful and funny. Going to all the shops was very fun as I learnt how to ask the price of things and have an interaction with a fluent speaker.’

‘I really loved the trip – I don’t think I would change anything about it! The activities were amazing and there was a wide variety of games but we were also able to repeat ones we really enjoyed (volleyball). I feel like I learnt so much about Spanish culture and the language! The rooms were perfect and the journey was really fun. The food was delicious and the monitores were lovely. Thank you so much for such an incredible trip – I loved every minute of it and made so many wonderful memories! I Gracias!’

The trip was the perfect combination of language immersion and fun hands-on experiences and activities. Thank you to Mrs Fleck, our Spanish Teacher, who once again expertly organised the trip, and to Mr Burden, Mrs Pluke and Mr Wayman who also accompanied the pupils and joined in with all of the fun!

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