Residential Programme

It is our intention to set up a Residential Programme at the BEST Centre, commencing September 2011.

The idea is that a small number of swimmers aged 11 – 18 will have the opportunity to combine their academic careers alongside their swimming career. In effect, we would become a small, private swimming academy. We would take as much care with the academic achievement of the athlete, as we will with their swimming achievement.

Most swim programmes in schools tend first and foremost to be a school, and the swim programme fits in around the academic timetable. Waking up at 6am to go swimming is part of a swimmer’s life. Waking up at 4.30am seems just plain wrong.

Our view is that it makes more sense to plan a day, a week, a term and a year around the individual needs of the student and the athlete. With a small, independent school and an outdoor 50m pool, we can do exactly that. Students will have a cutting edge education, combining one to one teaching time with internet resources, interactive study and tapping into the educational blogosphere.

We expect to excel in our academic results, which will follow GCSE or International GCSEs, and A levels or the International Baccalaureate. We also expect the swimmers to become as great as they dare dream.

We want to create an environment that doesn’t just make champions. We want to create an environment that makes champions inevitable.

The first intake is planned for September 2011. If you have an interest to discuss the idea of a swimming academy, and why Colonia Sant Jordi might be the right place for your child’s education and swimming, please contact one of us to talk in more detail. More detail will appear here in the coming months.