Killarney School of English

"The Killarney School of English was a safe, well organized and nice place for our 15 years old son. I can surely recommend it. Preparing the stay I had a nice phone call with Feargal, the leader of the school and we wrote each other several e-mails because we had the problem that our son has a lot of allergies against animals including horse and also several severe food allergies. Feargal was so honest and responsible to write me in the beginning: "However Killarney is a town famous for Jaunting cards (horse and carriages) so if he is hyper allergic to horses I cannot guarantee he would not pick up something from the general environment. Maybe a city school would be better?". In the end we parents decided that our son should go to Killarney School of English because he did a hiking trip at Killarney the week before and the flight back home from the language school was already booked. So we were really thankful that Feargal accepted our very allergic child. At Killarney our son just reacted once slightly allergic against horses during a journey by bus to an activity with pupils from an other language school who probabely had horse hairs in their clothes because there was a horse pasture next to their language school and we guess they had petted the horses there before going to the bus. But also this allergic reaction wasn´t a problem for the school. He took his pills against allergy, stopped the journey and someone from the language school came by car and brought him to his guest familiy the school had called before. The next problem for the school before our son could arrive was to find a guest family for him without pets because most Irish families have dogs or cats as Feargal wrote. Feargal said that he would find a guest family for him but it would take him some time and would probably be just around one week before the language school started. And he kept his word: Just around one week before the start of the language school we got the data of his guest family and some nice pictures of their house. The guest family was absolutely nice, our son loved his guest parents and his nine years old guest brother and enjoyed his stay with them so much! We parents were relieved that his guest father was chief, so the guest parents could handle his food allergies very well and they had no pets. The first day our son hated the language school and wanted to end it at once. He was the only pupil from Germany so it wasn´t the easiest start for him because the other pupils came from France, Spain, Japan and one girl from Italy, but that circumstance forced him to speak English what was helpful to learn the language seen with the eyes of us parents. Today, after one week at the language school on the way home at the transit area of the Cork airport, he said that it was quite good at the language school and that he feels much more confidence to speak English now and he had understood that grammar was not as bad as he thought it would be and that he wants to go on learning the English grammar and vokabulary at home. The transfer to the airport today was well organized as everything during his stay at the language school. A driver drove him with enough time cushion to the airport where they met a very nice teacher from the language school who helped our son to check in and brought him to the transit area where he now waits to fly back home to Germany."

"Super recommended. They accept children from 3 years. Children up to 12 are in the same facilities as their parents and teenagers go to another school. From my point of view, everything is easy both for teaching and for activities or something that happens to you in the room. We have already gone two summers with them and we will repeat if we can"

"Super staff. Warm, welcoming and very professional."

"Great experience and a very nice family! Thank you from Costanza Italy"

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