French lessons and exercises in the classroom with our interactive smartboard, games and outdoor play in our beautiful Meridian Park, exploratory activities in the historical building of the Good Shepherd Center, and a fun hands-on project allowing our campers to get creative and collaborative around the camp's theme.

Full day camps for kids ages 6 to 12 take place weekly at our Wallingford location: Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm. Each day combines short French lessons, structured activities, games, lunch and snack breaks, and free playtime — see the sample schedule below. Teens ages 13 to 17 attend a half-day program; please check the course selector above for current teen camp days and times.

Our camps are open to all children who are either complete beginner, beginner or intermediate in French. They aren’t expected to become fluent from their camp experience, but they will go home having learned new words and phrases (and having made new friends!). Our objective is to get campers curious and interested in the language through fun activities, games, and self-expression.

Our camps' weekly themes trigger students' curiosity, activate their need to speak, use their creativity, express their emotions, and inspire them to defend their ideas all while learning French! Our camp instructors are French teachers with an extensive experience in teaching youth, and who have been constantly innovating our youth programs to adapt to new needs and formats.

Our half-day Teen Summer Program is designed for ages 13 to 17 at the A2 Intermediate and B1 Independent levels. Led by instructor Providence Kamana in collaboration with Cocreative Culture, sessions go beyond the traditional classroom: teens practice French through games, sports, music, and real-life conversations, and produce their own creative content in French. The program is built to keep teens engaged, speaking, and having fun while they strengthen their confidence and fluency.

Please note that the Alliances Françaises offer French as a foreign language course programs (in French ‘FLE’ for ‘Français Langue Etrangère’) and not as a native/second language course programs (in French ‘FLAM’ for ‘Français LAngue Maternelle’). This means that our youth students are non-francophones; they do not speak French at home or have not been following an immersion program. 

A membership is not mandatory to enroll, however, there are many benefits to becoming a member at the time of enrollment:

• The $40 registration fee will be waived
• You can access priority enrollment and our lowest tuition pricing during our member-only Early Bird 
• You will receive a 5% discount code for siblings during regular registration
• Additional enrollments will automatically be discounted 5% during regular registration.
• You will gain access to our many member perks!