Summer Junior Programme

An international course for teenagers developing communicative abilities and encouraging self-expression through fun and enjoyable activities, based around music, drama, dance, imagining, games, movement, team building, environmental awareness, story circles and lots more.

COURSE OVERVIEW

A course at Asana is of two or three weeks’ duration and you should try to arrive and leave on the Saturday or Sunday immediately before and after your course.

Classes run from 9am to 1pm from Monday to Friday with a short break at 11am. Students then have their packed lunch together on the school premises, before beginning their afernoon excursion or indoor activity, which runs from 2pm to 5pm.

On Saturdays Asana arranges a full-day excursion to a place of cultural or scenic interest from 10am to 5pm. Sundays are free and are good days for students to spend with their host family.

OUR ACTIVITIES

Asana offers one full-day and five afternoon activities each week.

Outdoor activities

Our outdoor activities include water sports, hikes in the mountains, rock-climbing, sea-kayaking, boat fishing, exploration of the coastline with a marine biologist, paddle boarding, fun & games on the beach, cycling around Valentia island, trips to nearby towns, our team- building, pro environmental ‘Tribal challenge’.

Two afternoons each week are spent in engaging in stimulating indoor activities and have the choice of the following activities each day:

INDOOR ACTIVITIES

Sports in our state-of-the-art sports hall including soccer, volleyball, basketball, badminton, Gaelic football, rugby and more

Cookery lessons with Asana’s resident chef who will help you create delicious snacks and meals from Ireland and from all over the world using local ingredients often from the surrounding countryside

Music & drama workshops with resident musicians Oisin Breathnach and Stephane Odrobinski: you will be part of our school production performed towards the end of your course

Arts & crafts with local artist and story-teller Sean O Laoghaire ranging from puppetry & performance, street art around the town and much more

OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES

As an optional extra we recommend horse-riding which is excellent in our area. The A.I.R.E. Ring of Kerry Equestrian Centre have been taking Asana students riding for many years now. Their courses cover dressage, training & trekking along beaches and forest trails. This activity needs to be booked in advance and costs 120 euro per week (total four hours over two afternoons each week)

Evening activities

Asana also organizes two weekly evening activities including discos, quizzes, evenings of music and dance, sports and of courses our theatrical show put on by the music group. On all other evenings students are expected to be at home with their host families by 10pm.

DATES 2023

Transfers from and to Cork Airport and Kerry Airport are included in these prices provided that students travel on a Saturday or a Sunday or exceptionally with Ryanair flights arriving and leaving on a Monday. If travelling outside these days please contact Asana for help with your booking.

The following features are included in the fees:

Full board and accommodation
Airport transfers
Entrance level test
20 lessons per week
5 afternoon leisure activities per week
2 evening activities per week
1 full day Saturday excursion per week
End of course certification

€ 1495

12th June - 24th July
7th August - 19th August
28th August - 9th September
4th September - 16th September

€ 1895

5th June - 24th June
26th June - 15th July
17th July - 5th August
7th August - 26th August
28th August - 16th September

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CONTACT DETAILS

T: + 353 (0) 877671327
E: info@asanaireland.com

Quay Street Cahersiveen
Co. Kerry Ireland

Asana Language School is a family-run English language school in Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry, in the stunningly beautiful Skellig coastal region of Ireland’s South-West.