BASS (Brewster Academy Summer Session) is both a school and an adventure recreation camp for co-ed, American & international students ages 12-18.

Are you looking for an opportunity to meet kids from all over the world and share fun and exciting experiences with them while learning English faster than you thought possible?

Brewster Academy is located in the picture-perfect village of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, a safe and cozy summer resort, where the days are warm, the nights are cool, and the scenery and outdoor recreation are unmatched.

Brewster is widely recognized for its ESL programs, including those that are summer programs. For example, since 1992, Thailand has sent us its top 50+ high school graduates for ESL and cultural training. We are the only school to be selected for this honor.

We are equally proud of BASS, our six-week summer school. Last summer, our ESL students improved their scores by an average of almost 10% (+9.89%) in English fluency. Our students tell us that our approach to English teaching is enjoyable and rewarding beyond their expectations.

They tell us that BASS is fun and exciting, like being on vacation in a most beautiful part of New England. Cross-cultural exchanges with American and other international kids under a variety of unique and interesting conditions is one reason for their delight.

We balance serious academic work with a fun-filled, outdoor summer adventure camp. Students get the best of both schooling and camping. In both school and camp they are surrounded by and teaming with native-English speakers in every part of every day.

Each student is provided with a Macintosh laptop for the duration of the program. Access to the internet and email is available everywhere on campus. Students like that too. But there’s much more to our story…

Ideally, in BASS we try to enroll an equal number of American and international students. This provides us the opportunity to attempt to give every ESL student a native-English speaking roommate. The dormitories are mixed and English is used constantly. We want our ESL students to have to use English everywhere. We also make up our adventure teams with that in mind. It is impossible not to learn English in our environment.

We limit our enrollment to 60. We want a small school so that we can get to know each student as an individual and to custom fit each with a program that optimizes their experience academically and socially. Our faculty: student ratio is 1: 2 and students spend 27.5 hours per week in class. We have numerous levels of classes ranging from beginner to advanced. We, of course, teach the traditional Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking courses, but we have added a truly innovative approach also. It’s called Video ESL.

For details, please visit our website. And be sure to watch our videos, the academic portion http://www.brewsteracademy.org/summer_programs/brewster_academy_summer_session/ESLSummerSchoolPart1.mov and the adventure camp portion http://www.brewsteracademy.org/summer_programs/brewster_academy_summer_session/ESLSummerSchoolPart2.mov where you will get a great “look and feel” for how we do things. It loads and plays immediately.

June 26 - August 7, 2009 for international students.

June 28 - August 7, 2009 for American students.

This is the same school/camp. The extra days are for testing for ESL levels and for overcoming jet lag.

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