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English Language Holiday Calendar
Plan to Love Your English in Scotland
English Language Holidays Exploring Scotland
Every season in Scotland has its own kind of beauty. Sincerely, we love it year-round.
Because our main offer is exploring outdoors, we run language-conversation holidays only from April to October. (If you would like to visit outside this season, contact us.)
In all of our holidays, you are not walking into a pre-written course; we build around your interests and language goals.
→ We also design around Responsible Tourism Goals and share what’s remarkable in Scotland during the week(s) you visit.
This page is to share with you time-specific events you may wish to build your holidays around.
We’ll also highlight what makes it a great time of year to visit.
We have LOADS of cultural and wellbeing activities we do regularly on our English language holidays, from visiting Scottish castles, exploring remote landscapes, visiting galleries and museums, taking a woodland sauna, a yoga class, or a journalling workshop.
The language immersion activities we offer are like the leaves on the branches.
We have our most frequent ones listed on our Activities Page.
About Our English Language Holiday Schedule
This page is about the festivals, themed weeks and events that our language school shares.
Think of this page as the trunk of the tree – the framework for your immersion holiday.
April Language Coaching holiday for Adults Aged 60+
Explore Scotland’s landscapes, culture, and heritage while improving in English.
Holiday at a Glance
Enjoy guided walks, historic visits, cooking, and sharing meals, all designed to enhance language skills.
Medium-level fitness required. Our flexible schedule can accommodate different energy levels but you should be comfortable walking 5-8km per day.
Dates: Available for 2 weeks of April — choose your week or join for the full fortnight.
More about this holiday :
April English Amnesty
Explore Scotland’s landscapes, culture, and heritage while improving in English.
Holiday at a Glance
For travellers who think they hate their English — or who feel they’ve lost touch with it.
Our English Amnesty fortnight begins with two power days of awe and inspiration: hiking Ben A’an, riding the Fort William–Mallaig steam train, and soaking in Scotland’s spring light.
There’s no pressure to speak; you begin as a traveller, not a student.
As the week unfolds, conversation flows naturally — and for those who stay a second week, confidence deepens beautifully.
It’s gentle on English, full on life.
Dates: Available all April — choose your week or join for the full fortnight.
More about this holiday:
April English Immersion Conversation Holiday + Beltane Fire Festival
Our year-round core experience: small-group English holidays built around real conversations, Scottish culture, and everyday adventures.
No 2 weeks are ever the same: we shape each one around the people who join us.
Holiday at a Glance
Real-world English coaching with outdoor adventures, workshops and spot coaching.
Includes an evening at the Beltane Fire Festival, Edinburgh.
Dates: Available last week of April/start of May — choose your week or join for the full fortnight.
Further Information
April in Scotland
It can mean temperamental weather, but the unfurling of spring is magical. This month is perfect for warming up at our local woodland sauna. You get the landscapes to yourself as there are few tourists. It’s also the perfect time to enjoy places like the Trossachs or the West coast, as the midges are still dormant.
May — English Immersion Conversation Holiday + Drovers Tryst Walking Festival
Our year-round core experience: small-group English holidays built around real conversations, Scottish culture, and everyday adventures.
No 2 weeks are ever the same: we shape each one around the people who join us.
Holiday at a Glance
Our usual real-world English coaching moves outdoors for 4 days of hiking as part of the Drovers Tryst walking festival.
Dates: TBC
More about this holiday:
May — Real World English Spot Coaching Holiday
Our signature experience — perfect for travellers who want to enjoy using their hard-earned English while turning language knowledge in their head into language that feels good to use, with long-term, sustainable results.
Holiday at a Glance
This English Language Holiday in Scotland uses spot coaching combined with a curated program of real-world English encounters to support your fluency. Between language moments, you’ll rest your mind and body with nature-filled pauses, outdoor adventures suited to any fitness level, and delicious home-cooked food made from local, organic vegetables and ethically sourced milk, eggs, meat, and fish.
Each holiday is shaped by your professional and personal goals — and by what’s happening around Scotland: community gatherings, live music, talks, and workshops.
We plan your holiday schedule.
All you need to do is get here!
Dates: Available all May— choose your week or join for the full fortnight.
Further Information
- Imagining ‘What If’ for Your English
- Real-World English Practice: A Better Way to Learn as an Adult
- Language Holidays in Scotland | Why Perthshire?
Let’s Talk!
All holidays begin with a Zoom chat.
May in Scotland
May can be glorious, and nature puts on a show. The bluebells in our local woodlands will take your breath away. We’ll forage for wild garlic on the paths around our local distillery, and enjoy cooking with nature’s gift. May is the pre-tourist season; the midges are still dormant. It’s perfection.
June — Real World English Spot Coaching Holiday
English conversation holidays in Scotland for travellers who want to deepen their confidence and connection to the language.
See above
Dates: Available all June— choose your week or join for the full fortnight.
June in Scotland
June is a good time for visiting gardens and castles. These places get busy over the summer months, but June is still quiet. The Highland Games calendar has started, so you have the option of enjoying the games on most weekends. The gorse on the hillsides glows bright yellow.
July — Real World English Spot Coaching Holiday
English conversation holidays in Scotland for travellers who want to deepen their confidence and connection to the language.
See above
Dates: Available all July— choose your week or join for the full fortnight.
July in Scotland
July is comfortably warm. It’s a great month for outdoor activities, including wild swimming, canoeing camping. You’ll see our retuning swallows building nests in thick castle walls, and our purple thistles flowering. Wildflower meadows will take your breath away.
August — Bring the Squirrels English Learning Family Holidays
For parents who don’t want to choose between improving in English and being with their family, we’ve worked out how to adapt our English conversation holidays to make them perfect for connecting kids with English and giving you a relaxing time together.
Holiday at a Glance
Dedicated family-only weeks, full of creativity and adventure. Explore Scotland’s outdoors, and enjoy shared learning that feels like play.
Families only — no mixed groups. 2-week bookings strongly recommended.
We’re keeping travel affordable for single parents:
- Family with 2 Adults: We’ll reserve the entire holiday just for your family, ensuring a private and personalised experience.
- Family with 1 Adult: We’ll either match you with another family or provide a private learning experience tailored to your needs.
Available all August, but book by March 2026 to secure your week.
More about this holiday:
August in Scotland
Avoid the heat of your homeland with August in Scotland. It’s a season of light evenings that let you be as comfortable outdoors as inside. It’s the month that towns organise family festivals and activities that we can share with you. Or we can take you deep into the hills, far from the tourists. Our family holidays include days at the world-famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
September — Bring the Squirrels English Learning Family Holidays
See above
Available all September, but book by March 2026 to secure your week.
September — Sketch Scotland | A Creative English Holiday through Sketching & Making
Our signature light-touch English coaching is woven through a menu of creative activities, including outdoor sketching, painting & monoprint workshops, gallery and exhibition visits and tours, and visiting artists in studios across Scotland. Grow confident in English through slow travel, real connection, and joyful English.
Holiday at a Glance
This 2-week-long English language boosting holiday grows your language skills through a menu of sketching, making, and conversation.
Perfect for amateur artists and art lovers alike.
Dates 2 x weeks mid-September
Sketch Scotland | September | An English Language Holiday with Art
Useful Links:
September — The Autumn Adventure Coaching Holiday
Strengthen your English outdoors, naturally. This holiday option offers a 30:70 English-to-wellness balance, focusing on healthy activities and nature’s beauty, supplemented with meaningful conversation coaching.
It’s about 1,000 micro-moments of you being you—in English—all harnessed by the deep power of nature.
Holiday at a Glance
A no-classroom English holiday for busy professionals designed to create time for you to enjoy autumn, using English while immersing yourself in Scotland’s glorious autumn landscapes. It’s less about speaking, more about being. A healthy holiday for anyone needing to unwind and relax about English.
Dates: Last week(s) in September
Slow Down for Autumn with English Coaching in Scotland
Useful Links:
September in Scotland
September is warm and lovely, but still green and lush. The mountains bring a cool breeze to warm days, hinting at autumn increasingly as the month progresses. Expect long shadows, wild flowers, the thistles fluffy and the hills purple with flowering heather. It’s the best month to see butterflies and to enjoy campfires by a lochside.
October — The Autumn Adventure Coaching Holiday
See above
Dates: Available all October— choose your week or join for the full fortnight. Extra bonus activities toward the end of the season.
October in Scotland
October can mean temperamental weather, but you can also get lucky enough to sunbathe and wild swim.
As the month progresses, the coolness arrives. It’s a month for enjoying stunning sunsets and clear starry nights that will take your breath away, as well as warming up at our local woodland sauna. It’s a good time to see red squirrels in trees, hear (And see) red deer calling out in the hills and bats in the sky. Pitlochry’s Enchanted Forest, and a steamboat ride through the autumn colours of Loch Katrine are unmissable.
A Few Pointers for Booking
→ We usually run Friday to Friday, but if the dates you have in mind don’t match exactly, please get in touch — we’ll do our best to arrange something around you.
→ Two-week bookings strongly recommended. It’s not for us — it’s for you. Two weeks gives time for the language transformation to happen.
→ We can never promise good weather. Sometimes there are pleasant surprises, like sunbathing in October. We don’t apologise for the weather. Rain makes Scotland green and full of life.
If rain upsets you, this might not be the right holiday for you.
→ Our holidays are not lessons so much as language practice opportunities. They’re for people who already have the basics (no matter how rusty you may feel). Our weeks work by activating your passive knowledge of English — and we don’t see why you can’t have fun in the process.
→ We compensate for mixed levels with extra 1:1 support.
→ Our holidays have just 3 places per week (if you find a match, don’t wait!)
→ Our goal is to be the best investment in your future you can make.
Every holiday begins with a short Zoom call before booking — just to check our way is right for you.
Our holidays are £1,840 GBP per person, per week*, plus £25 per night homestay host accommodation**.
* for our family holidays, kids join for free.
** for our family holidays with 2 adults, we arrange a private apartment at £500 per week.
→ All events and transport around Scotland are included in the price.
You can (and should) check out our Frequently Asked Questions and Terms & Conditions for more details.
Holidays for people who love learning,
but don’t want lessons.
Do You Teach Professional English?
Yes, But Not How You Expect
Our English Holidays are for Professionals
All our language coaching holidays are ideal for professionals who want to improve their English for work or career growth — we just believe that relaxing in English is the best way to learn.
We focus on fluency and confidence over industry jargon, but we can weave career-related language skills into any holiday.
You tell us what you need to achieve, and we design the experience around you.
Discover How We Integrate Professional English into Our Holidays
It might not look (or feel) like work,
but it works.
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