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Pro Options

This programme is optional and replaces the regular Sports & Leisure programme on 4 afternoons per week. It involves 6 hours per week of professional tuition in a range of sports and is designed to increase students’ skills, techniques, and knowledge of their chosen option. 

Pro Options objectives

  • To allow students to extend and customize their course at British Summer School;

  • To increase students’ self-confidence;

  • To develop students’ communication skills;

  • To increase students’ fitness levels (sports and dance options);

  • To improve students’ technical skills and competence.


We have different pro options to choose from

Aviation Simulator
Enabling students to test if they have what it takes to pilot a complex airliner. Training is carried out in a state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 Flight Simulator under the expert guidance of a qualified flight instructor.

Robotics & AI
Teaching students about the functional elements of robotics. Students learn about programme designs, computer hardware, functions, and computation and are introduced to methods for manipulating different controls and motions. Student design and develop a small robotic model.

Fashion Design


Enabling students to develop their strategic, creative and practical skills to prepare to help them become more confident in fashion design and product development. Students also gain wider perspectives into the global fashion industry.

Tennis
Focusing on improving technique through better stance, building greater power into strokes and improving shot selection, alongside improving consistency.

Golf
Covering all aspects of the game including pitching and chipping, bunker play, putting and the long games, as well as course management, the rules of golf and etiquette. Students experience playing on a golf course.

Website Design
Introducing students to the key principles of designing and planning a website, creating pages with HTML, formatting web pages, graphics, scripting and website management and authoring tools. Students design and create their own website.

Horse Riding
Including stable management, animal welfare and horse preparation as well as increasing riding ability and confidence. More advanced students can also learn how to jump.

Different Pro Options are available at different locations and for different courses.

For more information, download our Pro Options Flyers:

  • Pro Aviation Simulator

  • Pro Fashion Design

  • Pro Golf

  • Pro Horse Riding

  • Pro Robotics & AI

  • Pro Tennis

  • Pro Website Design

 

Sample 1.5 hour session: Tennis

Performance testing:
Strength, reflexes, speed, agility and stamina (30 mins).

Technical training:
Working on players’ positioning, improving shot selection and building greater power into strokes as well as improving consistency. (50 mins).

Injury Prevention Workshop:
Useful tips on how to prevent common tennis injuries through stretching, rolling and selecting the correct footwear (10 mins).

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