Brush up on your languages for your holidays

Holiday-makers of all ages are being offered the perfect chance to finesse their French, German and Italian in advance of their summer break, with fun and friendly language courses.

Frenchwithout Fears is being held at Farncombe Courses, near Broadway, from Friday 5 April to Sunday 7 April.  A range of light hearted activities will help boost confidence and teach new vocabulary and skills throughout the residential course.

Italianfor Beginners is also being held at Farncombe in the last weekend in May, while Get by in German is being hosted a month later, at the end of June.

Mandy Morrison, programme manager at Farncombe Courses, said: “Whether you last spoke a foreign language years ago at school or you’re a little more advanced, these course are great fun and always very popular.

“It doesn’t promise fluency in a weekend but it will build your confidence and move you forwards, whatever your starting point.”

Painting Courses: How to Paint Portraits (Oils & Acrylics)

23rd - 25th november

At Farncombe, we offer a wide range of Painting Weekends and Day Courses. Keith Morton, a popular artist and tutor is offering a course on How to Paint Portraits.

During this weekend painting course Keith will teach students the skills to be able to paint lifelike portraits. This course is suitable for painters with some experience who would like to imporve their portraits painting skills.

Keith Morton tutors Portraiture, Still Life and Life workshops, demonstrates Portraiture and Still Life to art societies, undertakes commissions, and paints people he admires. To date, his most famous sitters have been the jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey OBE and the actress Siobhan Redmond.

Farncombe prepares to launch 2013 leisure course programme

The 2013 Farncombe course brochure is currently beign designed and will be landing on our customers' mats early September. The programme has been carefully planned to include a wide mix of weekend and day leisure courses.

Adult Edcuation has always been the focus of Farncombe and the team have planned a year full of courses in subjects such as; bee-keeping, history, crafts and texiltes, painting, writing, photography, singing and much more. We like to think that at Farncombe there is something for everyone.

We will be posting and e-mailing our brocuhre to every one of our customers. If you don't currently receive information from Farncombe and would like to, please fill in the brochure request form on our website. www.farncombecourses.co.uk