Homestay Accommodation for Summer School Students

  • Summer school students live with homestay hosts unless they select residential accommodation. All IPC Hosts are visited by our Accommodation Officer who interviews them and judges their suitability to host.
  • Hosts meet students on arrival in Exeter - either from the group coach or from the coach or train station if students are travelling independently
  • For students flying into Bristol Airport hosts may offer a meeting service - at additional cost - this is a special service and not always available
  • All hosts provide a clean, warm, and comfortable home with adequate space,a suitable room with comfortable bed(s), and sufficient washing facilities for students hosted. Towels and linens are provided. For 2 week courses hosts will offer to wash students clothes in the middle weekend.
  • Meals - Hosts provide bed, breakfast, a packed lunch and an evening meal each day. Breakfast is usually cereal and toast - a typical English breakfast before school. Packed lunches usually consist of sandwiches, crisps, fruit and a sweet snack - a typical English school packed lunch. Evening meals vary according to the host - hosts will ask you what you like. Typical meals might be - fish and chips, sausages and chips, pasta and salad, pizza and salad, spaghetti bolognaise
  • All hosts deliver to school on the first day of the course. This will either be by car or by public bus.
  • All hosts undergo a DBS Enhanced Disclosure check. We also write to Devon Social Services about new hosting applicants. Applicant hosts who do not pass these basic tests cannot host for IPC.
  • All hosts are interviewed by our Accommodation and Welfare Officer - we choose friendly hosts who enjoy meeting new people
  • Summer school students travelling as part of a group who have requested to share with a friend will normally be accommodated in a twin room. Students may be placed in threes and fours if requested.
  • Individual students may be invited to share a room with a student of a different nationality - you will often be sharing the homestay situation with students of a different nationality either from IPC or another school
  • Some hosts who can offer the space may accommodate two pairs of students from different groups, of different nationalities.
  • IPC hosts will accommodate no more than a total of 4 students in their homes. Some hosts may accommodate two students from IPC and two hosts from another school. In this case it will be checked that they are of different nationalities.
  • Hosts do not bring students to and from school after the first day but, unless you are withing easy walking distance of a venue and old enough to walk home alone, hosts will always collect students at the end of evening activities
  • Students will travel to and from school using the bus pass provided (included in your package)
  • Exeter is a relatively small city - students travelling to and from school will usually have a short bus journey (max 25 minutes) followed by a short walk from the centre of town to the school (Colleton Crescent 10 mins, Exeter School 15 mins)
  • All students fill in an application form which helps us to match students and hosts. Hosts come in all different shapes and sizes.
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