COMING SUMMER 2026!

Dates: June 14-28, 2026
Cost: $4,000 (excluding airfare)
Course Credit: 1 World Language Credit
Certificate Pursuit: Global Citizenship & Awareness

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Allons à Montpellier is a two-week intensive language program that offers Pomfret students a total immersion experience with four hours of daily language instruction, homestays with French families, daily cultural activities, and weekend trips to cities like Arles, Nîmes, and Marseille. We will guide a minimum of six and a maximum of twelve students to maintain intimacy and ensure that each student is able to truly appreciate French culture, history, art, cuisine, and language. 

Who Can Apply? 
This program is open to students who have successfully completed French II. 

Trip Leaders 
Tim Deary | French language teacher at Pomfret School

After graduating from Pomfret School in 2005, Tim studied at Amherst College, where he graduated in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in French and Sociology, and he earned his Master’s in French Linguistics and Pedagogy from Middlebury College in 2014. Tim studied in Paris in 2008, and he served as a teaching assistant in Toulon, France, from 2009 to 2010 before he began his teaching career at Pomfret School. Tim has extensive travel experience in France, and he has led language immersion trips with Putney Student Travel (2009-2011), where he taught students French while traveling to five different regions in France, and with Pomfret’s L’Atelier au Château in Mussy-sur-Seine, France (2022-2023). 

Tory Dobbin | French language teacher at Pomfret School
After attending boarding school in Massachusetts, Tory attended Bates College in Maine, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in French and Psychology in 2018. Upon graduation, Tory moved to New Hampshire and taught French while earning her Master’s degree in French from Middlebury College in 2023. Tory has studied throughout France, including the cities of Arles (2015), Rennes (2017), and Paris (2023). She has led students on language and cultural trips as well as rafting, skiing, and camping trips for the White Mountain School and Cardigan Mountain School in Montreal, New England, and Arizona (2018-2023), and co-led the Project: Pomfret Criminal Justice trip to Georgia, Alabama, and DC (2024). 

What Students Can Expect 
We will meet students at the Paris-Charles De Gaulle airport on the morning of Sunday, June 14, between 7:00 and 11:00 a.m. We will meet as a group to board the train, and continue on to Montpellier. Upon our arrival, students will take a brief walking tour before meeting their host families for dinner and a good night’s rest. Classes will begin the following day. 

Classes will be held Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Students will then enjoy a lunch break as a group in the lively area around the language center. After lunch, students will meet up again for afternoon activities. There is so much to explore in and around Montpellier! Activities include visits to museums, châteaux, Roman architectural and archaeological sites, a cooking class...every day will be a new adventure! 

After our afternoon of adventures, students will return home to their host families for dinner and time to rest. 

On the first full weekend, we will be taking two day-trips to explore several of the towns outside of Montpellier, such as Carcassonne, Arles, Nîmes, and Avignon. After classes on Friday, June 26, we will return to Paris and spend our last evening together eating a yummy dinner in the City of Lights. On Saturday, June 27, we will shuttle students to the airport in time for their flights and no later than 11:00 a.m