Evenings & Saturdays · adults only

Learn a language after work, in a class small enough to actually speak.

Brightpath runs ten-week language courses for adults in Riverbourne. Groups are capped at eight, every course meets once a week, and the whole timetable is built around people who finish work at half past five.

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Max 8 per class
10-week terms
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Since 2009

About the school

A small school that does one thing properly

Brightpath opened above the old print works on Cobbler's Row in 2009 with two Spanish groups and a borrowed projector. We now run around thirty groups a term across six languages, but the shape of the school has not changed much: adult learners, one evening a week, a teacher who knows everybody's name by the second session.

Almost everyone who comes to us is fitting study around a job. That single fact drives most of our decisions. Classes start at 18:15 or 19:45 so you can get here from work or from home. Terms are ten weeks rather than a full academic year, so a missed term is not a lost year. Homework is designed to take twenty minutes, not two hours, because we would rather you did twenty minutes four times than two hours never.

We are not a university department and we do not pretend to be. We prepare people for holidays, for family in another country, for a transfer to an overseas office, for reading a novel in the original, and quite often for nothing more than the pleasure of learning something difficult on a Wednesday night.

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How we teach

Four things we insist on

None of this is revolutionary. It is simply what we have found works for adults who are tired, busy, and slightly embarrassed about speaking.

You talk more than we do

In a group of eight, every learner speaks for roughly a third of the lesson. In a group of twenty-four they speak for a tenth. That is the whole argument for keeping classes small, and it is why we turn people away rather than squeeze them in.

Grammar in service of something

We teach grammar, properly and explicitly, because adults find patterns reassuring. But a tense is introduced when you need it to tell a story, complain about a delayed train, or explain what you used to do at your old job.

Mistakes are the material

Teachers keep a running note of errors during pair work and spend the last ten minutes on them, anonymously and on the board. Nobody is corrected mid-sentence unless they ask to be.

Same room, same faces

Your group keeps its teacher and its room for the whole ten weeks. Cover teachers are drawn from the same small pool, so a substitute is usually someone you have already met in the corridor.

Term 3 · September to December

Courses running this term

Every course below is ten weekly sessions of one hour and forty-five minutes, with a fifteen-minute break in the middle. Course fees, materials and the end-of-term feedback report are all listed under fees. If a group is full we will put you on the waiting list and contact you first when a place opens.

Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
English

French Stage Two

Level A2 · Tuesdays 18:15 · Room 4 · Teacher: Marc Delisle

The natural next step after a beginners' year, or a good landing place if you did French at school and remember more than you expect. We consolidate the present tense, introduce the perfect and imperfect properly, and spend a lot of time on the small connecting words that make speech sound like speech rather than a list.

Each session ends with a fifteen-minute listening task using unscripted recordings — a weather report, a radio phone-in, a recipe read aloud too quickly.

10 weeks · 17.5 hours £265 5 places left

German for Work

Level A2–B1 · Thursdays 19:45 · Room 1 · Teacher: Ines Hartmann

Built for people whose employer has an office in a German-speaking country. Telephone manners, email registers, small talk before a meeting starts, describing a process, disagreeing politely, and the vocabulary of invoices, deadlines and delivery dates. We do not teach industry jargon — you already know yours — but we do teach the frame it sits in.

Learners bring a real document from their own workplace in week six and we work from those.

10 weeks · 17.5 hours £295 2 places left

Italian for Travellers

Level A1 · Saturdays 09:30 · Room 3 · Teacher: Giulia Fontana

A short, cheerful course for people with a trip booked. Stations and tickets, restaurant vocabulary that goes beyond pizza, asking for directions and — more usefully — understanding the answer, plus enough polite formulas to be treated kindly by strangers. We finish with a session on regional differences so you are not surprised in Naples or Trieste.

Runs as a six-week block rather than ten. There is no written work.

6 weeks · 10.5 hours £175 Places available

German Grammar Repair

Level A2–B1 · Saturdays 11:30 · Room 1 · Teacher: Ines Hartmann

A short diagnostic course for learners who have been studying German for a while and know that something in the foundations is loose. Cases, word order, adjective endings, separable verbs and the perfect tense, taken slowly and in that order, with a great deal of practice and no new vocabulary to distract from the machinery.

Best taken alongside a conversation group rather than on its own.

8 weeks · 14 hours £215 Places available

Not sure a group course is right?

We also run pairs tuition, where two learners of a similar level share a fifty-minute weekly slot at a lower cost than individual lessons. Ask at reception or mention it when you book your placement chat — we keep a list of people looking for a partner in each language.

Finding your level

Six levels, described in plain English

We use the usual six-level European framework, because it is what most textbooks, exam boards and employers refer to. The official descriptions are written for institutions, so here is what each level actually feels like from the inside.

A1 Getting started. You can greet people, say where you are from, order something, count, and ask for the bill. Conversations are short and mostly about you. You will understand the teacher and very little else.
A2 Surviving. You can describe your day, your job and your family, handle shops and stations, and cope with a hotel problem if the other person is patient. Past and future are appearing but wobbly.
B1 Managing. You can hold a conversation with a sympathetic native speaker for half an hour, explain an opinion simply, follow a clear film with subtitles, and write a straightforward email. You still lose the thread when three people talk at once.
B2 Comfortable. You can join a meeting, argue a point, read a newspaper without a dictionary and follow most television. Mistakes remain but they rarely block understanding. This is where most adult learners want to arrive.
C1 Fluent. You can work in the language, follow fast group conversation, read fiction for pleasure and adjust your register for the room. You notice your own errors as you make them.
C2 At home. You can do essentially anything you can do in your first language, including being funny on purpose. We rarely run C2 groups; at this stage people usually want private sessions on a specific need.

How long does a level take?

As a rough guide, and assuming one class a week plus twenty minutes of homework most days:

Step	Terms
Nothing to A1	2–3
A1 to A2	3
A2 to B1	3–4
B1 to B2	4–6
B2 to C1	6+

Each term is ten weeks. The steps get longer as you climb, which surprises people at B1. It is not a sign that anything has gone wrong.

Placement

How we work out where to put you

Self-assessment is unreliable in both directions. People who studied a language at school routinely place themselves two levels below where they belong, and people who have spent a fortnight with a phone app routinely place themselves two levels above. So we do a short placement instead, and it is free whether or not you enrol.

It takes about twenty-five minutes and has two parts. First, a written section of around forty multiple-choice items, done on paper at reception or emailed to you as a PDF. Second, a short spoken conversation with a teacher — in person, or by phone if that is easier. The conversation matters more than the paper. Nobody has ever failed it, because it is not a test of you; it is a test of which room you will enjoy.

You get the result the same evening or, for emailed tests, within two working days. We tell you the level, the group we would put you in, and one honest sentence about what you will find hard.

Already know your level?

If you have a recent certificate, a school report, or you have simply been studying elsewhere and know exactly where you are, tell us and we will take your word for it. You can always move groups in the first fortnight.

Term 3 timetable

When everything runs

Two teaching slots each weekday evening and two on Saturday mornings. Sessions last one hour and forty-five minutes including a fifteen-minute break, so an 18:15 class finishes at 20:00 and a 19:45 class finishes at 21:30. The building opens thirty minutes before the first class and closes fifteen minutes after the last.

Weekday and Saturday groups, September to December Room numbers occasionally change; the board in the entrance hall is always right.
Day & time	Course	Level	Room	Notes
Mon 19:45	English: Speaking with Confidence	B1–B2	4	Recording sessions in weeks one and nine. If you would rather not be recorded, tell your teacher and we will run the same task as a private conversation instead. Recordings are deleted at the end of the term and are never shared with anybody outside the room. This group tends to attract people who already use English daily at work.
Tue 19:45	French Reading Circle	B2+	Library	Capped at seven. Book list published in August; second-hand copies are fine and the school keeps two spare copies of each title on the shelf. Vocabulary sheets go out a week ahead of each discussion. The group meets in the library rather than a classroom, around one long table, and the reading is roughly thirty pages a week.
Wed 18:15	Portuguese from Scratch	A1.1	5	European Portuguese with weekly notes on Brazilian usage. Includes ten minutes of pronunciation work in each of the first three sessions. No previous language study is assumed, though learners who already speak some Spanish tend to move quickly through the first month and should say so at the placement chat.
Thu 19:45	German for Work	A2–B1	1	Bring a real document from your own workplace to week six — an email chain, an agenda, a specification. Anything confidential should be redacted before you arrive, and if that is awkward the teacher will supply a neutral substitute document instead. Telephone practice runs in weeks three, seven and ten. Invoicing through an employer is straightforward; ask the office for a purchase order reference.
Sat 09:30	Italian for Travellers	A1	3	Six-week block rather than ten, with no written homework. Popular with people who have a trip booked for the spring, so it fills quickly in September. There is no coursebook and no written homework; everything is handouts and speaking. The final session covers regional differences in vocabulary and speed, which is more useful than it sounds.

Missed a week?

Every session has a one-page summary sheet that goes out by email the following morning, whether you were there or not. If you miss two consecutive weeks your teacher will offer a fifteen-minute catch-up before the next class.

Swapping groups

You can move to another group of the same language and level at no cost during the first two weeks, subject to space. After that we ask for a good reason, mostly because groups settle and a late arrival changes the room.

Bank holidays

Where a bank holiday falls on a teaching day the session moves to the following week and the term runs eleven calendar weeks instead of ten. Affected dates are listed in the term dates table below.

Fees

What a course costs

One price per course, paid before the term starts. There is no membership fee, no registration fee and no charge for the placement. Prices below apply to Term 3 and are held for Term 1 of next year.

Course fees, Term 3 All figures include VAT where applicable. Course books are extra and listed separately.
Course type	Length	Contact hours	Fee	Per hour
Group course, standard	10 weeks	17.5	£265	£15.14
Group course, conversation or specialist	10 weeks	17.5	£275	£15.71
Group course, workplace focus	10 weeks	17.5	£295	£16.86
Short block (travel or repair courses)	6–8 weeks	10.5–14	£175–£215	£15.36
Pairs tuition, per person	10 weeks	8.3	£290	£34.94
Individual tuition, per hour	—	1	£52	£52.00
Reading Circle	10 weeks	17.5	£255	£14.57

Reductions

Second course in the same term: £30 off the lower-priced course. Applies whether the two courses are in the same language or not.
Returning learner: £15 off if you studied with us in either of the two previous terms. Applied automatically; you do not need to ask.
Two people enrolling together: £15 off each. The names must be given at the same time and both must complete the term.
Full-time students and people on a low income: a limited number of half-price places are held in every beginners' group. Ask the office in confidence; we do not ask for documents beyond a simple declaration.

Reductions do not combine with each other. We apply whichever gives you the larger discount.

Paying

We take bank transfer, debit and credit cards at reception, and cash if that suits you better. There is no surcharge for any method. Payment is due before the first session, and a place is only held once payment has cleared or a payment plan has been agreed.

Payment in instalments

Any course fee over £200 can be split into three monthly instalments at no extra cost. Ask when you enrol. We do not run a credit check, we do not charge interest, and if an instalment is going to be late the only thing we ask is that you tell us before the date rather than after it.

Books and materials

Most courses use one coursebook, typically £24 to £32, which you buy yourself or through the office at cost. Photocopied handouts, the weekly summary sheets and access to our small lending library are included in the course fee.

The teaching team

Who you will actually be taught by

Nine teachers, six of whom have been here more than four years. All hold a recognised teaching qualification for their language and all of them teach; nobody at Brightpath has a job title that keeps them out of a classroom.

Ines Hartmann

German · With us since 2016

Ines spent six years in corporate training before joining us and brought the workplace course with her. She is calm about German grammar in a way that reassures people who have been frightened by it, and her Saturday repair course has a small but devoted following of learners who arrive convinced they are hopeless and leave able to explain the accusative to someone else.

Teaches Thursday 19:45 and Saturday 11:30.

Rui Amaral

Portuguese · With us since 2021

Rui teaches the only Portuguese groups in this part of town and has quietly built them from four learners to nineteen. He is meticulous about pronunciation in the early weeks and relaxed about almost everything afterwards. Ask him about the difference between European and Brazilian usage only if you have twenty minutes to spare.

Teaches Wednesday 18:15.

Sarah Whitcombe

English · With us since 2013

Sarah teaches the English groups and coordinates placement. She has worked with adult learners for over twenty years, most of it with people who already speak English competently but do not yet enjoy it. She is the person who will most likely do your placement conversation, and she is aware that you are nervous.

Teaches Monday 19:45. Placement appointments Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.

Three further teachers cover Spanish, French and Italian across the Saturday timetable and provide cover during the term. Their profiles are on the noticeboard in the entrance hall.

A typical evening

What actually happens in 105 minutes

Lessons vary by teacher and language, but the shape below is close enough that most learners recognise it after the second week. We publish it because a surprising number of people put off enrolling simply because they cannot picture the room.

Wednesday, A2 Spanish, week four An ordinary session, not a showcase one.
Time	What happens
18:15	Arrivals and five minutes of unstructured chat in Spanish about the week. No correction.
18:25	Quick review of last week's vocabulary, usually as a pair game.
18:40	New material introduced in context — a short dialogue, read and then dismantled.
19:00	Controlled practice: gap fills, transformations, the unglamorous part.
19:15	Break. Kettle, biscuits, everyone reverts to English.
19:30	Free practice: a role play or task using the new material and everything before it.
19:50	Error clinic on the board, drawn from what the teacher heard during the task.
19:58	Homework set and explained. Two minutes, never more.

Homework

Twenty minutes, most days

We set roughly forty minutes of written work per week, plus a listening or reading task that takes about the same. Spread across a week that is twenty minutes a day, which is what we ask people to aim for. Teachers mark written work and return it the following session with comments rather than a score.

Nobody is told off for not doing homework. Adults have jobs, children and boilers that break. What we do ask is that you say so, because a teacher who thinks the class has done the reading will plan the next lesson on that basis.

The twenty-minute rule

If a piece of our homework takes you more than about thirty minutes, stop and tell your teacher. Either the task was badly judged or you are in the wrong group, and both of those are our problem to fix, not yours to grind through.

Between terms

We email a short optional pack in the gap between terms — a few articles, a listening list and one page of revision. It exists because the four-week break is where progress most often leaks away, and fifteen minutes a week is enough to stop it.

What learners say

Feedback from the end-of-term forms

We ask everyone to fill in an anonymous form in the last week of each term. These are printed with permission, lightly trimmed for length, and left otherwise as written.

“What I did not expect was the group itself. We have carried on meeting in the pub on the corner every second Wednesday since the course finished in April, and we still make ourselves speak Italian for the first half hour, badly.”

Ros · Italian, Stage Two

“Good teaching, but I was placed a level too high and it took me until week four to admit it and move. My own fault for overstating things at the placement chat. If you are reading this and you are tempted to round yourself up: don't.”

Anonymous · Portuguese

Across the last four terms, 213 learners returned an end-of-term form. The average overall rating was 4.6 out of 5, and 78 per cent enrolled again the following term.

Enrolment

Joining a course, step by step

The whole process usually takes a week from first email to first lesson, and less if you already know your level.

Get in touch

Email, phone, or walk in between 16:00 and 20:30 on a teaching day. Tell us the language and roughly where you think you are. If you are a complete beginner you can skip straight to step three.
Do the placement

A short written test and a twenty-minute conversation with a teacher, in person or by phone. Free, and with no obligation to enrol afterwards. Appointments are usually available within three working days.
Choose your group

We will suggest one or two groups that fit your level and tell you honestly how full they are. You choose the day that works for your week; we would rather you took the right evening than the perfect level.
Pay the fee

In full or as three monthly instalments. Your place is confirmed by email the same day, with the room number, the start date, the book you will need and the name of your teacher.
Come to the first session

Arrive ten minutes early if you can, so somebody can show you where things are. Bring a pen. You do not need the coursebook until week two, and nobody will ask you to introduce yourself in the target language on the first night.
Settle in, or move

The first fortnight is a settling-in period. If the level is wrong you can move group at no cost, and about one learner in twelve does. Telling your teacher in week two is normal and helpful, not a failure.

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Calendar

Term dates and closures

Three ten-week terms plus a shorter summer block. We publish the following year's dates every March so people can plan holidays around them, and we very rarely change them once published.

Teaching terms Weeks run Monday to Saturday. Where a bank holiday falls on a teaching day the session moves to the following week.
Term	First week	Last week	Weeks	Closures
Term 3 (autumn)	14 September	27 November	10	Half-term break, week of 26 October
Term 1 (winter)	11 January	26 March	10	Half-term break, week of 15 February
Term 2 (spring)	19 April	2 July	10	Bank holidays 3 and 31 May
Summer block	12 July	13 August	5	None

The summer block

Five weeks of intensive conversation groups only, at A2, B1 and B2, in Spanish and French. Two sessions a week, no coursebook, no written homework. It is designed for people who want to keep their hand in over the holidays rather than to move up a level.

Christmas and New Year

The building closes from 20 December to 4 January inclusive. Email is monitored once or twice over that period but do not expect a quick reply. Enrolment for the winter term opens on 2 December and most beginners' groups fill by mid-December.

Snow and disruption

If we have to cancel a session we email everyone in the group by 15:00 that day and post a note on the front door. Cancelled sessions are always added to the end of the term rather than dropped, so you get the full ten weeks you paid for.

Questions

Things people ask before they enrol

If your question is not here, the office will answer it honestly rather than encouragingly. We would rather lose an enrolment than have somebody spend ten weeks in the wrong room.

Can I try a class before I commit?

Yes. You can sit in on one session of any group that has space, free of charge, as an observer or a participant — your choice. Ring the office to arrange it, because we like to warn the teacher and it is unfair to arrive unannounced into a small room. Trial visits are not available in the first or last week of a term, because week one belongs to the group settling in and week ten is usually a review session that would give you a misleading impression. Nobody will put you on the spot during a trial unless you ask to join in.

What happens if I have to miss several weeks?

Tell your teacher when you know. You will still get the weekly summary sheets and homework by email, and the teacher will offer a short catch-up when you return. If you have to miss more than four of the ten sessions we would usually suggest deferring to the next term instead, and we will move your fee across in full. That happens two or three times a term and carries no penalty and no awkward conversation; work travel, shift changes and family illness are ordinary parts of adult life rather than excuses.

Do you offer refunds?

In full up to seven days before the term starts. After that, and up to the end of the second session, we refund the fee less £40. From the third session onwards we cannot refund, because the group is set and the teacher is booked, but we will always look at deferrals and at genuine hardship case by case. Refunds are paid back to the original payment method within ten working days. The full wording is in the terms at the foot of this page, and the office will talk you through it before you pay rather than after.

Can my employer pay?

Yes, and about a fifth of our workplace-course learners are funded that way. We issue a proper invoice with a purchase order reference if you give us one, and we can supply an attendance record at the end of term. We do not have a minimum order and we do not require a contract for a single course. Payment terms are thirty days from invoice. If your employer needs a course outline, a teacher biography or confirmation of insurance for their procurement process, ask and we will send all three the same week.

Is the building accessible?

Partly, and we would rather be straight about it. The ground floor — reception, Rooms 1 and 2, the kitchen and an accessible toilet — is step-free from the street. Rooms 3, 4, 5 and the library are on the first floor, reached by stairs; there is no lift. If you need a ground-floor room, tell us when you enrol and we will place your group in Room 1 or 2. We have done this every term for years and it has never yet been a problem.

Do I need to buy the coursebook?

For most ten-week courses, yes — one book, usually between £24 and £32, which will carry you through two or three terms rather than one. You can buy it anywhere; the office will order it at cost if that is easier. The travel and repair courses use handouts only and need no book at all. If money is tight, say so quietly at reception: we keep a shelf of donated second-hand copies of the common titles and they are free to borrow for the term. Workbooks and online codes are never compulsory.

Is there parking?

There are eleven spaces behind the building, free to learners after 18:00, and they go quickly on Wednesdays. On-street parking in the surrounding roads is unrestricted after 18:30. The nearest bus stops are a three-minute walk and the last useful service back into town leaves at 22:10, which is comfortably after our final class ends. There is a covered rack for six bicycles inside the yard gate, and you are welcome to wheel a bike into the ground-floor corridor if the rack is full. The car park entrance is the lane behind the building, not the shopfront.

Visiting

Finding us

The school occupies the upper two floors of a converted print works on the edge of the town centre, above a picture framer's. The entrance is the blue door on the side of the building rather than the shopfront, which catches out most first-time visitors, so look for the yellow sign.

Reception is staffed from 16:00 to 20:30 on Mondays to Thursdays and from 09:00 to 13:30 on Saturdays. Outside those hours the answering machine is checked every morning and email is usually answered within one working day.

Getting here

On foot: eight minutes from the market square, going north past the library.
By bus: routes 4, 12 and 61 stop on the main road, a three-minute walk. Evening services run until about 22:30.
By car: eleven free spaces at the rear, entered from the lane behind the building. Unrestricted street parking nearby after 18:30.
By bike: a covered rack for six bikes just inside the yard gate, and you are welcome to bring a bike into the ground-floor corridor if the rack is full.

Inside

Five classrooms, each with a whiteboard, a screen and comfortable chairs arranged around a table rather than in rows. There is a small library of graded readers, films and dictionaries that enrolled learners can borrow from for free. The kitchen has tea, coffee, a fridge and an honesty box, and the biscuits are restocked on Mondays.

Terms of enrolment

These terms apply to every course booked with Brightpath Language School. They are written to be read rather than to be impressive, and if anything below is unclear the office will explain it before you pay.

1. Booking and confirmation

A place on a course is held only once we have confirmed it to you in writing by email and either the fee has been paid in full or an instalment plan has been agreed. Verbal enquiries, waiting-list entries and unpaid reservations do not constitute a booking.

2. Fees

Course fees are stated per course, not per session, and cover teaching, handouts, weekly summary sheets, use of the lending library and the end-of-term feedback report. Coursebooks and any external examination fees are not included. Fees quoted at the time of booking are fixed for that course and will not change mid-term.

3. Cancellation by you

More than seven days before the first session: full refund.
Within seven days of the first session, and up to the end of the second session: refund of the fee less an administration charge of £40.
From the third session onwards: no refund, although deferral of the remaining value to the following term may be agreed in cases of illness, bereavement, redundancy or a change of working hours.

Refund requests should be made by email to the office. Refunds are processed within ten working days to the original payment method.

4. Cancellation by us

If fewer than five learners enrol on a course we may cancel it before the first session. In that case you will be offered a place on an alternative course or a full refund, at your choice. If we cancel an individual session for any reason, it will be rescheduled, normally by extending the term by one week; we do not refund single sessions.

5. Attendance and behaviour

There is no attendance requirement and no penalty for missing sessions. We do ask that learners arrive on time where possible, treat other members of the group courteously and respect the fact that a small classroom depends on everyone being willing to speak imperfectly in front of others. In the rare case of behaviour that makes a group unworkable, we reserve the right to remove a learner from a course and refund the unused portion of the fee.

6. Changes to the timetable

We may change the room, the teacher or the start time of a course where circumstances require it, and we will give as much notice as we can. If a change means you can no longer attend, you may transfer to another group or receive a pro-rata refund for the remaining sessions.

7. Liability

The school is insured for public liability. We are not responsible for personal property left on the premises. Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

8. Complaints

Speak to your teacher first if you can; most things are resolved in five minutes at the end of a lesson. If that is not appropriate or does not settle it, put the complaint in writing to the office. We will acknowledge within two working days and give a full written response within ten.

Privacy notice

Brightpath Language School is the data controller for the personal information described here. We collect and keep as little as we can, and we do not sell or share it for marketing.

What we collect

Enrolment details: your name, email address, telephone number, postal address and the courses you have taken.
Placement results: the score from any written placement test and a short note of the teacher's recommendation.
Payment records: the amount, date and method of payment. We do not store card numbers; card payments are handled by our payment provider and we see only the last four digits and the result.
Access requirements: only what you choose to tell us, and only so that we can make the arrangements you have asked for.
Correspondence: emails and messages you send us, and our replies.

Why we hold it

To place you on the right course, to take payment, to contact you about the course you are enrolled on, to meet our accounting obligations, and — if you have said yes — to send you the termly course list. The lawful bases are performance of a contract, legal obligation for accounting records, and consent for the mailing list.

How long we keep it

Enrolment and placement records are kept for three years after your last course, so that we can place you correctly if you return. Financial records are kept for six full financial years because we are required to. Mailing-list entries are kept until you unsubscribe, and every email we send contains a one-click unsubscribe link that works.

Who else sees it

Your teacher sees your name, level and any access arrangements. Our accountant sees payment records. Our email and payment providers process data on our behalf under written agreements. Nobody else, unless we are legally required to disclose something.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of what we hold, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it where we are not legally required to keep it, and object to any processing based on consent. Write to the office and we will respond within one calendar month, without charge. If you are not satisfied with our response you may complain to the relevant supervisory authority for data protection.

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Accessibility statement

We aim to make this website usable by everyone. Pages use plain markup, text that resizes without breaking the layout, colour combinations chosen for contrast, and headings in a sensible order for screen readers. Tables of timetable and fee information scroll horizontally on small screens rather than forcing the whole page to.

The building itself is described honestly in the questions above: the ground floor is step-free, the first floor is not, and we place groups accordingly on request. If you find part of this site or the school difficult to use, please tell us. Access problems are usually easy to fix once somebody mentions them.