Halloween in Spain is now part of the school curriculum in Mijas. Last year I wrote a post, Halloween 2010 , complaining how I’d suffered for five hours, having volunteered to help out for a Halloween activity at our son’s school. I’d made over 150 ghost balloons and had the blisters to pr
10.23.2011 | children, Education, Life | admin
Wow ! What a day we had. Where do I start? Sunday night marked the end of the the Mijas Feria 2011. On the final Sunday children´s rides are only €1.50 so, needless to say, almost every child near the villages visits the feria on Sunday evening, despite it also being the night before “Vuelta
09.13.2011 | children, Education, Life | admin
Monday sees the return to school for our two children, after a week’s holiday to celebrate Semana Blanca ... a week celebrated only in the Malaga province, but this year, it seems it was unusually celebrated in Calatlonia too. And, as only in Spain, the carnival week celebrations in the scho
In our previous post Education in Spain (Our Story I), we told of how smoothly our eldest son adapted to changes. Our daughter however, appears to have suffered more due to the changes in her young life. At the age of 15 months, she eventually adapted to private Spanish nursery in Velez Malaga.
In our post Education in Spain (part 1), we mentioned that probably, the first decision you have, regarding your child’s education, when moving to Spain is the choice to place them in a state run school or a private/International school. In one sense, our decision making process was made mo
I am writing this, having just spent almost five hours, with around one hundred and fifty pupils aged five to seven years, at my son’s school, making ghosts! The children had a fantastic time but my fingers are sore from cutting and sticking, that’s for sure. Today is the first of four days o
10.29.2010 | children, Education | admin
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” - Emilie Buchwald Anyone who has a little knowledge of the Spanish language will agree with me, I am sure, when I say that I think that teaching your child to read in Spanish is a lot easier than teaching them to read in English
On moving to Spain 6 years ago, the one thing my husband and I were determined on, was that our children would have a Spanish School education, this was for a few reasons. We were moving to Spain, to embrace the whole culture,and provide our children with an insight in another way of life .
10.22.2010 | children, Education, Guests, Relocation | admin
In Spain, education is compulsory for children between the ages of six and sixteen. The good news is that state education, from nursery through to university, is free of charge* for both Spaniards and foreigners (*subject to certain requirements that we will discuss at a later date). Education is
10.15.2010 | children, Education, Life, Relocation | admin
