寒假插班：比夏令营更接近真实的英国课堂

After a summer of camps, Dr Zhihao Yan sorts the children who came into three kinds — the sightseeing tour led by a Chinese teacher, the language camp where a mixed-nationality intake forces English, and the academic camp built on two or three weeks of project work. Then he argues that none of them shows a family what English schooling is actually like. A camp is addition: cross-cultural games, arranged socialising, visits, all designed to soften adaptation, with classroom time necessarily limited. A winter placement is the opposite — the child joins a real spring term alongside local pupils, at their pace, with nothing packaged for a visitor. He notes why schools resist two-week placements, why Chinese families keep asking for them anyway, and why a growing share of the enquiries now come from pupils who are already top of their class at home.