The Summer Academic Orientation Program is an opportunity for students who have already received a "Letter of Acceptance" to experience a boarding school program. The majority of our students attending this intensive English immersion program have already been accepted into a boarding school for September. Therefore, their English skills have met the minimum requirements for those particular boarding schools, but the schools and parents strongly feel that additional preparation would benefit the students with their transition into boarding school for September.

Students attending our Summer Academic Orientation Program already have met the academic requirements of a regular boarding school and are attending our program to help with the transition both linguistically and culturally for September such that they will have the confidence to succeed in an English first language environment.

Attending Fulford Academy will increase students' English Language skills and will provide them with a venue to become oriented to both North American culture and academic curriculum in a boarding school environment. This is a very demanding English immersion program and students attending a traditional boarding school are advised to attend both the July and August programs.

Students attending the August portion of the Summer Academic Orientation Program will attend a mandatory four day "Leadership Camp", which again, gives students that "camp" experience before attending a similar program offered at most boarding schools in September with the focus on bonding students to their new schools, classmates and roommates.

Many boarding schools will highly recommend or make an offer conditional upon students attending our Summer Academic Orientation Program. Some of these students are students who are going into Grades 9 to 12.

As with the ESL Prep Program, the Summer Academic Orientation Program focuses on teaching English through Canadian core content subjects of math/science, history/geography, English Literature, Study Skills and sports, therefore developing student's skills in classroom vocabulary acquisition, reading comprehension, pronunciation, writing and listening skills. Teaching English through core content subjects allows students to gain the confidence required as they are familiar with the English content of these subjects as they enter their new classrooms in September.

Fulford Academy's venue (a beautiful 16th Century Surry Style Manor) truly mirrors that of a traditional English style boarding school. Our school is small by design and purpose to focus on the individual needs of our students. With a 50 student capacity, our maximum classroom size is only 10 students. When a student arrives for the Summer Academic Orientation Program, they will be placed in a class according to language ability which is determined by an entrance test, as well as by age and grade appropriateness. With all of our teachers, residential staff and administrative staff we can provide an English only environment to support a strong foundation in English such that students will be prepared to succeed in their boarding schools in September.