Themed English Language Holidays
Making the mix right for you
At Blue Noun, all our holidays offer a relaxing mix of English language coaching and conversation opportunities, immersion in nature, history, arts and crafts, and day trips exploring parts of Scotland.
However, unlike traditional language school immersion holidays, we can pull a lot of levers, adding more of something or less of something else.
So you get the holiday that feels good for you – and gets the best results for your English.
And, to be very clear, those goals vary from person to person, and from one stage of life to another.
Understanding what will move your English skills forward is one of our strengths. (We know it’s probably not a generic course or some photocopies from a book on phrasal verbs).
Most people choose our core language holiday, Experience English.
The other holidays listed below have been designed for people looking for a particular activity, to take advantage of a season in Scotland, to learn with peers, or who are coming to us with negative feelings around English.
See if one resonates with you!
Holiday Options
Our Main holiday
→ For Those Happy to Go with the Flow
Our main holiday, Experience English, is a rich and well-designed language immersion experience.
We shape it around your English, your interests, and the opportunities each day brings.
If you like the idea of committing to the experience and letting the details unfold, Experience English is probably the right fit. It is available from April to late October.
£1,950 GBP
Course price per person, per week
Local homestay accommodation £25 per person, per night.
Adaptations:
Experience English AND…
Our English AND… holidays balance the need for language progress with other human needs, keeping language support healthy and light.
→ For Those Who Need a Gentle Return To English
Come back! All is forgiven!
The English Amnesty Holiday is for people who want to reconnect with English slowly and comfortably.
The pace is softer, with more space to listen, observe, and let confidence rebuild naturally.
→ For Those Who Want to Slow Down
A slower version of our core Experience English holiday, Autumn Moments gives you time to experience Scotland as the season changes.
Expect changing landscapes, wildlife, seasonal food, historic places, traditional crafts and time outdoors — with experiences chosen for the opportunities they create to pause, notice, talk and connect.
Your English develops through all of it, as you use what you already know in real conversations and experiences.
→ For Those Who Love Hiking Scotland
We have 1 week per year in May when our language school joins a local walking festival exploring the historic drovers’ routes.
We supplement this walking holiday with 3 days of English workshop.
→ Experience English: Stories of the Land | English Workshops + Local Hiking Festival
Adaptations:
Experience English for…
We’ve adapted the English Experience Holiday for different learning groups.
→ For Those Who Want to be Alone
Group learning is not for everyone.
We offer private booking options for couples, friends, or individuals who want the Blue Noun experience shaped entirely around them.
The nature of the holiday doesn’t change.
We simply hold the space just for you.
→ For Those Over 60
A relaxed, age-considered version of the core holiday, for people who want to enjoy English with peers, at a comfortable pace, and without mixed-age groups.
→ Experience English Holiday for Seniors
English for Professionals Skills Workshops
£2,850 GBP
Course price per person, per week
Local homestay accommodation £25 per person, per night.
Specialist Skills-Workshop Holidays
Our specialist workshops use a shared interest, skill or professional field as the starting point for exploring English.
Spend your holiday time immersed in a subject you genuinely want to think about, practise and discuss — with Scotland adding new people, places, ideas and perspectives.
→ For ESOL Teachers
This private professional development workshop is designed for ESOL teachers who want to explore new ways of creating meaningful learning experiences.
→ For Food & Drink Professionals
This specialist English programme is designed for people who want to explore Scotland through food & drink, developing rich, practical English around food, making, ingredients, processes and culture through the Crieff Food & Drink Festival and wider local experiences. It is particularly relevant to people who work with food & drink, but you don’t need to be a professional to take part.
→ For Those Who Would Love Time for Drawing and Sketching
An English workshop holiday for people who want to spend serious time making art, developing creative ideas and using their English.
For one or two weeks, we immerse ourselves in drawing, painting and creative practice, with workshops, demonstrations, exhibitions, artist encounters and plenty of new sources of inspiration. The aim is to make enough, look enough and experiment enough to find a creative rhythm — while conversation, shared experiences and all that exchanging of ideas do something similar for your English.
→ Explore Sketch Scotland, our specialist Art + English Workshop Holiday
→ For Arts & Creative Professionals
A specialist English programme for artists, designers, museum and gallery professionals, curators and others working in the visual arts who want to connect with Scotland’s arts scene through conversation, encounters and shared creative interests. Available privately or for small groups.
Family Language Holiday Options
£2,360 GBP
Course price per person, per week
Private apartment £500 per week
→ For Those Who Want to Share English With Their Family
Blue Noun’s family holidays are designed for parents and children to live English experiences together.
We don’t mix adult and family bookings. Instead, we turn school holidays into a fun, child-led language experience where English is used naturally through activities, conversation, and time together — without classroom-style learning.
During August, we also offer a special Edinburgh Festival Edition combining family English coaching with time exploring the atmosphere of Scotland’s world-famous arts festival.
Not Sure Which Option Is Right for You?
That’s completely normal.
Many of our guests aren’t sure which Blue Noun holiday will suit them best when they first get in touch.
Our holidays share the same philosophy, but each week has its own rhythm, activities and focus.
One of the purposes of your first Zoom conversation is to help us choose together. We’ll talk about what you’re looking for, how you like to travel, how you’d like to use your English, and begin shaping a holiday around you.
You don’t need to have all the answers before we meet.
About Scheduling Your Holiday
In some cases — such as senior, private or family holidays — the first booking flips a lever that reserves that time exclusively for that type of holiday.
Combined with our very small group size (a maximum of three adults), this allows us to shape the week around the people who are actually there, rather than trying to make different needs fit into the same experience.
That’s what keeps the holiday calm, coherent, and genuinely supportive.
