Staff at Embassy

Embassy Gold Coast students make a splash at SeaWorld!

Our staff at our Embassy schools work very hard to create a varied and enjoyable programme of activities and trips to keep the students entertained in their spare time. Recently, the students at the Embassy Gold Coast school had a great time visiting their local Sea World park.

Steven Rowe, the Student Services representative for Embassy Gold Coast writes: 'In May a pre-intermediate class from Embassy Gold Coast went on an excursion to SeaWorld, a marine-themed amusement park located only fiftten minutes away from the school.

Here, the students saw various exhibits with animals such as polar bears, sharks, penguins and stingrays,and they also watched live performance shows by dolphins and seals. This combined with riding rollercoasters and other thrill rides, along with watching a jet-ski stunt show made it a very enjoyable and educational day for the students.'

To see all of the great photos from this fantastic day out, visit the Embassy Gold Coast Facebook gallery. Also, you can visit the Embassy activities and excursions page to find out more about the other trips on offer to our students, or ask a question if you have a specific query about studying with Embassy.

 

Videos on site

Videos really help you to see what student life is like - and even more so when our students themselves get to speak.

That's why we've been busy adding videos across the Embassy website in recent days. Here you can view just a few of them. Enjoy!

An introduction to Embassy Sydney:

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See also:
An introduction to Embassy Melbourne
An introduction to Embassy Perth
An introduction to Embassy Gold Coast
An introduction to Embassy Brisbane
An introduction to Embassy Auckland

An introduction to Embassy Boston Downtown:

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See our other Boston Downtown videos:
Boston Downtown students and staff
Boston Downtown local information (foot of page)
Boston Downtown activities
Boston Downtown facilities (foot of page)

An introduction to Embassy New York:

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See our other New York videos:
New York local information (foot of page)
New York accommodation
New York activities
New York facilities(foot of page)

Easter Beach Barbeque at Embassy Gold Coast

Over 150 students at Embassy Gold Coast celebrated the beginning of their Easter break with a beach barbeque (or BBQ as it is sometimes known).

The weather was gorgeous, the food delicious and the company even better! The students enjoyed a mouth-watering BBQ cooked for them by their teachers with the menu including Aussie steak, Indian spiced chicken, homemade salads and of course many many Easter eggs.

No one was left hungry! With all this food, exercise was needed with different nationalities teaching us new and exciting games, which culminated in a fast and furious international soccer game.

See more images over at the Embassy Australia Facebook page, or find out more about studying English on the Gold Coast on the Embassy website.

Treetop fun

Three classes from Embassy Gold Coast visited O’Reillys, a wilderness resort located in Lamington National Park.

Students had a wonderful time feeding and meeting the very friendly King Parrots and Parakeets and walking through the biggest subtropical rainforest in the world. See more photos from thuis trip in our Gold Coast Facebook album.

Congratulations to Embassy Brisbane's soccer team

On Saturday 21st June 2008, the Embassy soccer team played in an inter-school soccer competition with 11 other English language schools from Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

With Kristian as their coach, mentor and strategist, Embassy played well all day managing to make it to the Grand Final.

Through injury, Embassy’s numbers were not at their strongest for the final so unfortunately we lost the grand final 2-1 to Bond University and are therefore the 2008 runners up.

This is by far the best result Embassy has had since the competition’s inception so huge congratulations to Kristian and the team!

Click here to see more photos on our Facebook page.

Nice view!

Recently a number of students and staff from the Embassy CES Gold Coast school in Surfer's Paradise visited Q1, the tallest residential building in the world and a very popular local attraction. After taking quite a few photos from the QDeck on the 78th floor of the great views of Surfer's Paradise and the surrounding area, they enjoyed fish and chips at a food court popular with students opposite the school.

Here are some of their photos:

Melbourne Cup Fever grips Embassy CES Gold Coast

Victoria Moyle, Director of Studies at Embassy CES Gold Coast writes:

Five classes, from Elementary to Advanced, joined together for "The Race That Stops the Nation", the Melbourne Cup: it was a day of fun, fashion and frivolity.

Administrative staff, teaching faculty and students dressed up in their finest hats, fascinators and suits, culminating in a "Fashions on the field" parade, with prizes awarded to the best dressed.

Students put their creative hats on to design their own jockey silks with some truly artistic skills being shown.

The finalists' work has been prominently displayed around the college for all to see. To give students a chance to feel the local excitement for the event, the race was viewed on a large screen TV in a local shopping precinct.

On a more academic note, students put their heads together in mixed level groups to solve vocabulary, idiomatic and movie questions before moving onto the highlight of the day. We finished up with our resident dance teacher leading the students in some Aussie style bush line dancing, with some hilarious moments for all and some very loud yee ha’s.

The Race that Stopped the Nation was a fabulous day for all involved.