French Summer Camps

Our ambition is to give children a love for the French language and culture. We host both residential and day camps at our farm in Co. Laois. 

Our creative summer camps aim at teaching French through activities such as cooking, crafts, music and outdoor games. The idea is to recreate a small corner of France in Ireland.

SUMMER 2025 CAMPS: 

Residential camps: (from Sunday evening to Saturday midday) - €680 

1 - 7 June

 

1st / 2nd year students

(9 spaces left for girls)

8 - 14 June

 

 1st / 2nd year students 

(5 spaces left for girls)

29 June - 5 July

 

 10-12 year olds 

(7 spaces left)

 

Day camps (Monday to Friday 10am-4pm) - €160 

2-6 June

 

1st / 2nd year students 

(3 spaces left)

9-13 June

 

1st / 2nd year students 

(1 space left)

 


30 June - 4 July

 

10/12 year olds

(Full)

 


 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

Booking: Please send us an email using our contact page here. Subject to availability, you will receive a booking form and an email with payment options. 

      Size of the group: 15 residential children and 3 day children.                                 

      Supervision: The children are under my supervision with the assistance of 3 French and/or francophone assistants. 

      Venue: Solenn's School, Bealady Farm, Rathdowney, Co. Laois, R32P2T8

      Accommodation: There are 3 bedrooms in the house for the children (4, 5 and 6 beds). The house is spacious.

      Allergy or fear of animals: We live on a farm and are surrounded by animals (sheep, cows, horses, hens) including two dogs who live in the house. Please be aware of this if your child is allergic to or afraid of dogs. The livestock are in the fields around the house. The house and the garden are separated from the farm and the children are supervised at all time. They are not allowed to go to the farmyard on their own and they are under the supervision of an adult when they go to a field.

      We advise that you do not send a child with a severe pollen allergy to our camp as most of our activities are outdoors.

      Meals: All the meals are prepared here with fresh food. The children have breakfast at 9.15am, a snack at 11am, a light lunch at 1pm, a snack at 4pm and a full dinner at 7pm. Coeliac and lactose intolerant children are welcome.

      There is always extra food for children who might not like a particular dish.

      Snacks: Children are not allowed to bring snacks (for allergy reasons).

      Use of mobile phones, tablets and computers: The children have access to their mobile phone or tablet for only 20 minutes in the evening to ring their parents. The phones, tablets or other smart devices are not allowed otherwise and will be held by Solenn the rest of the time. The children who don’t have a phone can ring their parents at any time on Solenn's mobile phone. The use of computers, tablets, video games or other smart devices is forbidden during the whole stay at Solenn’s School.

      Make-up: The use of make-up, artificial nails and artificial eyelashes is forbidden at Solenn's School.

      Full attendance to the camp: We strongly recommend that a child spends the full week here without interruption for other activities (sporting etc...) during their week as this disrupts their programme and the sequence of learning, group games and pair activities.

      !!! Please show the above video to your children and make sure that they are happy to come to this camp before enrolling them!!

      A typical day: