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Dear *all,

I just thought I'd ask if anyone has any experience/ guidelines/ advice re bringing english speaking 6/7 year olds to 'School' in Spanish state schools ? how easy ? difficult ? anything to bear in mind etc ?

initially we are thinking of either Torrevieja or Guardamar ?

As I say any advice would be very much appreciated.

Thank you

Our grandson Sam has been attending the Dama de Guardamar school in Guardamar for just over a year and he loves it. He is soaking up the language like a sponge and is doing well in just about all subjects. There is a guidance teacher who helps with any difficulties. Highly recommended.

Hi,Different topic.We live in Algorfa and we home school our 5 and 6 year old boys.We have just met another English home school family with two boys and we have become friends.If you do decide to come out then please message me if you would like to join in and meet up with us one day.More friends they have the better in our opinion.
Regards and good luck if you do come over.
Dave

Hi El Tel...Bringing young English speaking children to another country can be problematic...however we did it some 17 odd years ago and we stuck at it and made a success of it. The key was to get the children involved in local pass times...in our case two boys joined the local football club and made friends with the local Spanish kids...this helped at school as they were known and this helped to integrate them into the local community. The language problem does slow up their learning process so you have to put effort in at home to help them over this hurdle. In the round as youngsters they will pick up the language at a fair rate of knots. It can seem daunting but it can be achieved. good luck.

Thanks for that.