There is a gap between a language school and a holiday, and nobody was filling it.

Send your child to a language camp and they learn in a room full of other foreign children. Take them on a tour and they see China through a coach window. Neither gets them inside a real Chinese classroom, and neither includes you.

What is different here

• A real class at a real school, alongside local students, not a visitors’ group
• A parent with every child, so the experience is shared rather than reported back
• Ten school days, long enough to build a routine
• Five to ten families, small enough that we know everyone’s name
• One partner school per camp, so we know its teachers and how it welcomes a child who does not yet speak the language

Why so small

January 2027 is our first camp. Ten families is a number we can genuinely look after, and it is the only honest way to run a first one. It is also better for the children: a handful of newcomers across different classes join in properly, where thirty would turn into a visiting group that sticks together and speaks English.

Where this goes

Beijing is where we start. We are building toward camps in other Chinese cities, and each will open the same way: one school, one small group, properly known before we invite families in.

We built this as the camp we wanted for our own children, and they are coming on it.