- Ideally positioned for a range of subject trips including French Language Enrichment & WWI battlefields trips
- The complex is only open to our groups, providing reassurance to teachers and parents
- We can accommodate year groups of up to 250 students
- Dedicated on-centre Group Co-ordinator for each group to ensure the smooth-running of your educational tour, acting as all-round support for your group
- Programme of evening events and activities tailored to your group’s requirements
- Inspected as part of NST's Safety Management System
NST's Château d'Ebblinghem
Inspected as part of our Safety Management System
Our exclusive school group accommodation on the Opal Coast in Northern France
Château d’Ebblinghem is ideal for school groups being set in a rural location just 8km east of St Omer on the Opal Coast in northern France, and just 45 minutes from the Channel ports.
The centre has four buildings designed with school groups in mind all accommodating student and teacher rooms together alongside dedicated dining and teacher areas. Sole-occupancy options are available so your group can take over a whole building!
Accommodation
There are four separate buildings at our château, each designed to accommodate student and teacher en-suite bedrooms together, with dedicated teacher and dining areas too.
Dining area
Dining area
Located in your building and exclusive to your group, area can be used for recreational activities too.
Depending on your group size you may share the La Caserne dining area with another school group.
L’Auberge
L’Auberge
Students rooms : 13 x 4 beds (2 bunk beds)
Teacher rooms: 3 x 2 single beds
All bedrooms are en-suite
La Caserne
La Caserne
Students rooms: 18 x 4 beds (2 bunk beds)
Teacher rooms: 6 x 2 single beds
All bedrooms are en-suite
School trips available from Château d’Ebblinghem
WWI battlefield trips
WWI battlefield trips
NST's Château d'Ebblinghem is ideally positioned for WWI battlefield trips, with sites in Ypres easily accessed within 45 minutes, Vimy only 75 minutes away and excursions on the Somme Battlefields less than 90 minutes away.
At NST's Château d'Ebblinghem, your group will be able to have a go at baking, and later tasting, traditional ‘army biscuits’ which soldiers would have eaten during WWI. Your students will also gain a practical understanding of the war by trying on replica wartime uniforms.
French language trips
French language trips
The Opal Coast is an ideal destination for groups seeking to enhance language skills through a range of educational and cultural visits. Our French Language Enrichment Experience can be included in your school trip too.
With the support of your own French-speaking Groupie at NST’s Château d’Ebblinghem, your pupils will be encouraged to use their language skills whilst on visits, during mealtimes and throughout their entire school trip.
Cultural school trips
Cultural school trips
The Opal Coast is a fantastic location to get a real taste of France. Pupils will have the opportunity to experience traditional dishes, go shopping at the local markets where they’ll have the opportunity to interact with native speakers and practise their language skills.
You’ll also have your own Group Co-ordinator organising fun evening activities to keep everyone entertained.
Your dedicated Group Co-ordinator
- Meet you on your arrival, organise a welcome talk and centre orientation and organise your group into their accommodation.
- Accompany you on excursions and assist you with supervision and provide practical and historical information regarding your destination.
- Help supervise them in the dining area.
- Liaise with the Group Leader and adult members of the group on a daily basis to ensure good communication throughout your stay.
- Organise and supervise evening activities for your group.
- Encourage your students to use their language skills at all times, for example, during mealtimes and evening activities.
Your Group Co-ordinator is here to ensure the smooth-running of your school tour, acting as all-round support for your group. During the course of your stay your Group Co-ordinator will:
Shared recreational facilities
- Two football pitches (one floodlit)
- Volleyball area
- Four hectares of private grounds
- TV, DVD player and white board available in each building
- Full box of sports equipment
Organised evening activities at Château d'Ebblinghem
Our programme of evening activities is designed so you can easily enhance your group’s itinerary with a range of cultural, subject-based and fun experiences. All activities are free of charge unless otherwise indicated and are co-ordinated by your dedicated Group Co-ordinator.
For French language groups, activities are led by a French speaking Group Co-ordinator and can be conducted in French, English or somewhere in between, giving pupils every opportunity to practise the target language and help build confidence.
Resources to support & extend language learning
Resources to support & extend language learning
We offer a range of language resources to help your group get the very most out of their time away.
Our Go Explore journal encourages pupils to expand their vocabulary and we provide additional language resources to help support with on-centre learning including a crêpe activity worksheet and meal vocabulary placemats.
We also provide a range of town trails for local towns which are an excellent method of getting pupils to read, repeat and understand French words and phrases whilst exploring a French town.
Campfire
Campfire
Enjoy a traditional campfire, guests can enjoy songs, relax, share stores and reflect on their shared experiences from the day.
Teamwork, fun, support & encouragement
Disco
Disco
A chance to dance the night away. A popular activity for the final evening of your trip.
Fun, confidence & social skills
Meals
Our brand new menu is designed to provide a nutritious balanced diet, accommodating for all dietary requirements. Breakfast and evening meals are provided on-site and packed lunches are supplied daily. Meal times are flexible to suit your itinerary, and most special dietary requirements are easily catered for. The Head Chef will prepare a carefully balanced menu which provides a taste of France but at the same time will still be familiar to most students.
Daily menu
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Continental breakfast |
Cereals, toast, croissants or pain au chocolats, orange juice and hot drinks |
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Lunch |
Prepared by the pupils to their preference and consists of freshly made baguette with a choice of fillings, crisps, biscuits or cake and fruit. |
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Evening meal |
Starter, a main course, choice of salads and a dessert. On your last evening, students will have the chance to try ‘les escargots’ (snails)! |
Supporting healthier eating habits:
- Fresh fruit with all meals
- Healthy and nutritional salad at dinner time
- Two hot vegetables are served every day at dinner
- Reduction of salt
- Reduction of fats (particularly trans and saturated fats)
- Reduction of added sugars
- Promoting fibre-rich foods
- Water is available with all meals
- Orange juice is available with breakfast
- Semi-skimmed milk is available with breakfast
Watch our château mini-movie
Helping to combat climate change
Reducing the use of single-use plastics
Hosting hundreds of groups every year, we have managed to significantly reduce the number of single-use water bottles with the introduction of our on-site water re-fill stations.
Offsetting carbon emissions, reducing deforestation & providing wildlife habitats
For every group staying with us, a Maya nut tree will be planted in Peru and we’ve pledged to offset an additional tonne of CO2 through the Portel-Para reducing deforestation project in the Brazilian Amazon.
