Our Shakespearean fever continues this summer! We are offering a very special mini course (for one night only) on the 10-11th of June based all around As You Like It, one of the Bard’s most raucous and twisting comedies! Experience the players’ journey into the delight and magic of the Garden of Arden with a trip with Novel English to see the play performed in the Friend’s Seats at the Minack Theatre, one of Cornwall’s highlights and certainly the perfect place to spend a magical evening (I have included a photo of the gorgeous setting of the theatre for those

Next weekend- 7th-8th of May- Novel English is offering a special mini course based around LM Montgomery’s wonderful novel, Anne of Green Gables! Participants will have the chance to attend the play of the book and to take a follow-up creative writing session at Trelugga. With a focus on the 19th century in America, we will read and perform excerpts from the book, including Anne dying her hair, plying Cordelia with the wrong type of raspberry cordial and playing the tragic Lady of Shallot! Not to be missed, this weekend course promises an opportunity to get creative with reading, writing

Hello folks! The end of April is nigh (isn’t this year going fast!?) and here at Novel English we are planning our next course, which will be taking place over the May half term. This course will focus exclusively on the works and lives of the Bronte sisters, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte. This extraordinary literary family is a testament to female English writers and we are so excited to get the course underway! We will be focusing on Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre this time and we are sure that everyone will come away with a new

Don’t forget that we are celebrating the Bard this month; we will be kicking off with The Ides of March course where we will delve into Julius Caesar! An opportunity to discuss the themes of bravery, envy, betrayal, ambition, assignation and conspiracy in the Roman court! The play offers thought provoking questions on the role of leadership and what it means to lead! Discover what it means to be a tribune compared to a citizen; what it means to a soothsayer and to be influenced by predictions, omens and superstitions! All this with the opportunity to wear Roman robes and

Today is the 3rd of March and that means that Novel English wants to wish you all a very Happy World Book Day 2016! What are you reading today? We would love you to let us know on our Facebook page!

We have just finished our February half-term course here at NovelEnglish and I am here to let you know that there are now some photos on our Facebook page! Do have a look! This time we were focusing on the works of that most quintessential of English female authors, Jane Austen; the course included looking at the 18th-century way of life, learning about the balls, the hairstyles and the dances which Austen portrayed so often in her writing. The students also wrote and performed their own script! A wonderful time was had by all- a very lovely way to begin

Hello folks! Here it is then; the briefing of Novel English courses for 2016! We have planned a huge variety of exciting workshops for different age groups so there is sure to be something that takes your fancy! Do have a look through, and get in touch to book your place and/or discuss anything with us! During the Easter Holidays we are planning a month long celebration of the works of Shakespeare for his 400th anniversary; the courses will run as follows: So, an entire Easter of Shakespearean celebrations! During the May half-term we will be running a wonderfully exciting

Hello folks! First of all, apologies for the blog and Facebook pages being so quiet in the last month! Secondly, Happy New Year 2016 from all of us here at Trelugga! Things have not stopped at Novel English! In December we held our much awaited Christmas course, which focused on Victorian ghost literature, and most particularly Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol! The course was a fun packed few days in which the participants feasted on Victorian favourites: hot buttered crumpets, a full English roast supper and mince pies made by the children themselves! We had discussions on Christmas traditions such as

Here at Novel English we celebrated the coming of autumn with a course designed all around Shakespeare’s ‘unlucky’ play… (for those of you who dare to speak it, Macbeth!) The course began with an evening activity of discussing the famous symbol of the Tudor Rose and the children decorating the front of their notebooks with print outs of Tudor designs. On the second day the course focused on Act One of the play and we set off to the Goonhilly Downs (the nearest thing we have to the wild Heath!) to rehearse and discuss scenes; the morning was followed up with

Last week, over the half term break, we had a specially spooky, blood-thirsty autumn course at Novel English- we were focusing on Shakespeare’s ‘unlucky’ play: Macbeth! We have put some photos on our Facebook page, so do have a look! We will also be sharing more pictures of the course soon and we will be writing a longer blog post about it too, so watch this space! Happy November everyone!