Holiday season is here and at the College we start with decorating a traditional Christmas fir tree. Watch the students and staff in action: https://youtube.com/watch?v=txVF66GN85s&t=18sHave you put up your decorations yet? Please like and Subscribe to our YouTube Channel!
Here’s a brilliantly scary story written by one of our current students, Turki from Saudi Arabia. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin… In the winter of 1827, Frank William was visiting a village located in the south east of England called Minster. On a dark night when he was going back to his rented […]
Hilderstone tutor and trainer Dominic Srivalsan writes about his recent visit to a school in Doorn. Revius Lyceum Doorn is a secondary school in the small town of Doorn, not far from Utrecht in the Netherlands, with whom Hilderstone has had a close association over the years, having sent a number of teachers here for […]
Group leader Victoriia wrote to us about her group’s experiences during their recent course at Hilderstone College. Thank you Victoriia, and we look forward to seeing you here again! Hello, Broadstairs! This was not the school’s first trip to Hilderstone College , but the first for me. And it impressed me very much: the buildings, […]
Ayoub from Libya writes about his memories of being a Hilderstone student in 1983! I was a student at Hilderstone 36 years ago . We reached Hilderstone on 8 March, 1983 in the afternoon , we had a warm welcome from all the staff , and the landlords were waiting to pick up us to […]
After so many years at Hilderstone College, we are very sad to be saying goodbye this week to our long-term Deputy Director of Studies, Mike Harding. We wish him all the very best for a wonderful retirement, and good luck to his successor, Rachel Connabeer! Here is a message from Mike: I’ll be retiring on […]
The Sunday Times newspaper has named Stone Bay, Broadstairs, as the best beach in Kent! Stone Bay is a gorgeous beach and won the accolade due to its ‘strangely beautiful curve of flat sand and rockpools’. Chris Haslam, The Sunday Times’ chief travel writer, said that ‘Stone Bay’s white cliffs reflect the sun’s heat ‘creating […]
Here’s a wonderful review by Susanna, an English teacher from Austria, who has just completed a Creative Teaching and Culture course here at Hilderstone College. Thank you, Susanna, and we look forward to seeing you again next year! When I decided to do advanced teacher training, I did not know much about Hilderstone College in […]
My live changed one year ago. I never wanted to go to learn English outside of Spain, mainly because I was afraid. However, I decided to try and I couldn’t have made a better choice. My adventure began for 3 months in a country I had never visited, England and in a town I did […]
Our Principal, Lee, is quite an action man when he’s not organizing us all at Hilderstone College! Here he is photographed recently on the edge of the glacier, after 1200m of climbing to finish at 2600m, at the Aletsch Half Marathon in Switzerland. Lee also cycles, and sometimes leads our students in cycling or circuit […]
