The Hurtwood House Summer School is expensive and will appeal to those families who value the highest standards of education and care. Hurtwood House is a family organisation where the children are personally looked after. Children are guaranteed 'the holiday of a lifetime'.

When my wife and I held our first Summer Course here at Hurtwood House in 1970, we modelled it on the kind of course we would have liked our own young children to attend if they had been going abroad in the Summer to learn a language. We decided that there were three things that were important to us: that our children should be completely safe and well looked after, that they should have structured and lively language teaching and that they should have the best holiday of their lives, full of interest and fun.
We also wanted them to be part of a residential community which would be professionally run, small and friendly, rather than large and institutional.

We were fortunate that we owned Hurtwood House, an internationally recognised school with marvellous facilities and a team of enthusiastic English Language teachers which was open all the year round and which specialised in providing an English education to overseas children. Now, thirty years on, we have welcomed children to our Summer Course from more than one hundred countries. Many of them return year after year. I hope that this year your children will come and join us for the best holiday of their lives.