Premier English Educational Holidays since 1951.

Country Cousins is the only English Language School in the World with a BRITISH COUNCIL AWARD OF EXCELLENCE. We are a family business specialist Juniors English School in North Devon, on the coast of South West of England, established in 1951.

In 2014, we won the British Council’s ELTon award for Local Innovation, for our PALS scheme. We integrate local teenagers in our activities with our foreign students, it has proved very successful. In 2018, in our last British Council inspection, we got 29 strengths in our report, also accredited by Quality English.

Our boutique school is open all year (students staying with carefully selected Host Families), and have our own fleet of buses. We are between Exmoor National Park and Woolacombe beach (voted best beach in the UK by Tripadvisor for the last 5 years). This is an ideal environment for children to enjoy our activity programmes by the seaside; such as Adventure Sports, Ball Sports, Beach Volleyball, Riding, Tennis, Dance, Water Sports & Surfing.

Please see our 3 mins video, https://youtu.be/wBodNb3zT5k, which showcases Exmoor, Ilfracombe and the beautiful area where we live, our ethos, and the experience that we will provide to our students.

As a proud member of Green Standard Schools, our lessons are paperless, please see this video to learn more about our dynamic and creative lessons – https://youtu.be/OugTxZqwMK4, the general feedback from the students is “we never imagined that learning English would be so much fun!”