Language School Immersion Activities
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Language School Activities… Differently!
This page gives you an overview of our English conversation immersion activities.
At Blue Noun Language Hub, our English targets are for you to fall in love with speaking English, while gaining fluency in professional contexts.
Imagine for an instant, just how that would feel.
Feeling confident and enjoying speaking opens the doors to a lifetime of language learning.
Achieve this goal by exploring Scotland with us, as our passions become your passions too.
All our English immersion holidays are a curated mix of Perthshire’s best tourist activities and more private invitations.
Learn more about our Macro/Micro Immersion Activity Mix.
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Language School Immersion – Activities Menu
If you want to add something particular to your schedule, let us know and we’ll do our best to arrange it.
Please note that none of these experiences are guaranteed on your holiday.
Rather, this page is to show the range of activities we dip into to make your experience special and bespoke to you.
We’ll begin by chatting about what you’d love to do.
Active Scotland

Go Mountain Biking
Enjoy an afternoon of thrilling down-hilling with the amazing Comrie Croft – including a meal at their very special Tea Garden café.

Learn Survival Craft
Have an afternoon with Iain at Do it Outdoors – and learn Fly Fishing, Archery, or Wild Survival Bushcraft.

Play Golf

Kayak the River Tay
Perth City Tours instructor Chris will take you on a tour of the city – by boat!
A bespoke River Kayak Tour.
Chris will tell you about the river’s wildlife and show you the sights of the city as you paddle the river – no experience necessary

Walk Perthshire
Perthshire has thousands of miles of footpaths.
Crieff, perched high on its hill, overlooks a gorgeous landscape rich in Nature and History – and there are trails and footpaths for every level of walker to explore.
Historic Scotland

Visit Scone Palace
The historic home of Scotland’s ‘Stone of Destiny,’ is a wonderful visit.
Take the fabulous guided tour to discover remarkable art – and explore beautiful gardens (don’t get too lost in the maze!).
Scone Palace is a superb visit.

An Afternoon at Innerpeffray
Including a guide to Scotland’s first lending library and its historic books.
Scotland’s first free public lending library founded in 1680.
Used by people from the local community until 1968, today you can still read the rare books in its diverse collection.

Huntingtower Castle
Explore the castle where Mary Queen of Scots stayed.
Huntingtower Castle has a fascinating layout as its 17 C. owners altered their medieval castle to try to make it look more like a regular country mansion. Discover one of the oldest painted ceilings in Scotland and highly unusual castle architecture.

Tour Camp 22
One of the best-preserved WW2 POW camps in the UK.
Cultybraggan also has a fascinating contemporary social history.
Discover how Community Ownership Trust has transformed it into a melting pot of micro-businesses and eco-businesses – and a co-working space.

Perth’s New Museum
In 2024, the Stone of Destiny returned to Perthshire, to a new permanent display inside a new museum celebrating Perthshire. This museum, combined with the art gallery now housing the Ferguson Collection, makes Perth City a real destination for culture lovers.

The Wallace Monument
A superb immersion experience for discovering Scottish history and enjoying the Scottish landscape. The Wallace Monument has breathtaking views and a great visitor experience.

Visit Stirling Castle
Stirling Castle has always been a popular tourist attraction – but it has been slowly growing the wealth of details it has to share with its visitors.
It is now a superb visitor experience, with lots to see, do and discuss!
Food & Drink

Bake Bread
Practice your English in a fun and tasty way!
From time to time, Campbell’s Bakery invites Blue Noun English language learners to take their breadmaking workshop.
Taught by the award-winning baker, Iain Campbell – an entertaining and excellent teacher.
This option is only available on certain dates!

‘Care no More!’
Visit the Scottish winery, Cairn O’Mohr for a guided tour!
Find out how their award-wining organic wines and ciders are made and sample the range in a very generous (and fun) tasting session. It’s a completely bonkers visit.

The Glenturret
Superb design: when Scottish tradition meets Lalique glassware.
Visit the local Glenturret Distillery for their award-winning tour, taking you through the traditional art of whisky making – and the new contemporary bottle designs by Lalique.

Dine Out

Curry Night
Our favourite night!
While enjoying our local Scottish culture, let’s celebrate that we are also a nation shaped by other cultures – and in the tastiest of ways! Our local Nepalese restaurant The Gurkhas is fantastic!

Whisky Tasting
Taste the Scottish nectar!
You will always be invited to take part in weekly whisky tastings at Blue Noun.
Be guided through a selection (of well-researched favourites) from our local (amazing!) whisky shop J.L. Gill.
It’s a fun evening!

Coffee & Cake
It’s not so much an activity, as how we start the day.
At Blue Noun, we are happy to offer top-quality coffee from a local roaster.
Let’s start the day in style!
Plants & Gardens

Explore Tomnah’a Market Garden
Such a relaxing place to be an English speaker!
Tour this market garden and learn how food production can support indigenous ecology.
There are some opportunities for flower arranging / other workshops too.

Tour Drummond Castle Gardens
“The best example of formal terraced gardens in Scotland.”
Drummond Castle Gardens is a fabulous formal ancestral garden – rated one of the best in Europe.
If it looks familiar it has been filmed many times – most recently for the popular series Outlander.
Scottish Wildlife Experiences

Red Deer Encounter

Take a trip to Argarty to see Red Kites feed
Argarty (in Stirlingshire), is one of two sites in Scotland managing the reintroduction of red kites. See the birds fly down to feed – and learn how a working farm can be a wildlife sanctuary.
Travel Scotland

Coach Trip to Oban

Sir Walter Scott Steamship, Loch Katrine
Take a trip back in time, and travel Loch Katrine by steamship.
Experience stunning views of this part of Loch Lomond National Park, and learn the history of the loch.

Maid of the Forth 3 Bridges Tour
This boat trip is a popular English immersion activity as gives opportunities to speak English about the built environment and the natural world (we regularly see seals and puffins).
Travel the River Forth, passing under the remarkable engineering of the 3 Bridges.

NB: Tickets for this do sell out every summer, so book your English immersion holiday early!
The Jacobite Steam Train AKA ‘The Harry Potter Train’
We organise something very special for L2 English speakers spending 2 weeks with us.
The Jacobite steam train is a wonderful way to see Scotland and experience it at its very friendliest.
Make Your Language School Immersion Activities a Great Holiday!
No one wants to feel the disappointment of an unfulfilling holiday.
Your holiday time is precious. It should be filled with pleasurable, interesting experiences.
But the range of activities offered by a language school should be more than entertainment.
Language School immersion activities must have demonstrable educational targets intertwined throughout the holiday course.
Relaxing and having fun with English is a valid target!
Many people have the old fashioned mindset with language learning that if it’s fun, it can’t be useful.
Everything we do proves them wrong!