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Forum: Italy
Nov 14th 2014, 2:00 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Yes Lorna Yes! Sounds like a great idea. That's really nice, thanks!
Forum: Italy
Nov 14th 2014, 8:47 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Yes we will continue to speak to him in English of course and we'll get a sackload of English language books for children when we are in the UK so he could start to read those next year. My concern...
Forum: Italy
Nov 14th 2014, 8:43 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Yes, even more as he was born in July.

BTW Brando won
Forum: Italy
Nov 13th 2014, 7:47 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Maybe Giulia has a note about Chloe?

On another note, my boy is starting to reed and right, aged 6, at his Italian scuola elementare. He speaks English but would teaching him English confuse him...
Forum: Italy
Oct 1st 2014, 2:19 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Just want to add we were NOT outing any gays and we were NOT milking the gerbil.
Forum: Italy
Oct 1st 2014, 2:17 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Yeah same here, I remember we were always going on school trips and outings during primary school: city farm (Dean City), children's theatre (Wimbledon), nature reserve, museums, sewage works,...
Forum: Italy
Oct 1st 2014, 12:12 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

I'm not Catholic and my OH is non-practising but the nuns really do look after the kids and at both these schools, they cook the lunches themselves rather than having outside caterers, which I think...
Forum: Italy
Oct 1st 2014, 10:27 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

I must say that my opinion in general is quite positive. However, my experience is limited to 3 years of scuola materna (run by nuns) and just under 3 weeks of scuola elementare (also run by nuns).
...
Forum: Italy
Sep 29th 2014, 7:27 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

This has reminded me about a teacher I know. Last year I was chatting to one of the other fathers after dropping the kids off to school in the morning and we were debating the 40 hour week for the...
Forum: Italy
Sep 26th 2014, 1:44 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

There must be some good teachers. In Italy I mean.
Forum: Italy
Sep 18th 2014, 12:08 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

I thought 1066 was the last time England won the World Cup. Shows you how much I was paying attention. So what happened in the 15th century?

4th day of primary school for DS today, he seems to be...
Forum: Italy
Feb 6th 2014, 1:22 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

OK I get it. We've put Brando in a Catholic scuola materna and from Sept a Catholic primary school so basically it's compulsory. If we don't like it then we must change schools.
Forum: Italy
Feb 4th 2014, 9:47 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

You get to choose to do Religion or not? Pretty neat. So liceo would be a specialised high school correct?
Forum: Italy
Sep 16th 2013, 2:16 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

He actually goes to a Catholic school at the moment and the logical step would be to continue this path but the middle school is in the mornings only. In the next town there is the option of sending...
Forum: Italy
Sep 16th 2013, 1:18 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

He has just started the final year of Scuola Materna (3-5 years) and by January we should have him enrolled in Scuola Media or inferiore for Sept. 2014. We are looking for a suitable full-time school.
Forum: Italy
Sep 16th 2013, 1:01 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

:flypig::flypig::flypig:
Forum: Italy
Sep 13th 2013, 8:05 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Why can't the teachers get sacked? From what I read on this thread all the teachers are selfish, incompetent prats without any consideration for education (except for Mrs Sensible of course). How the...
Forum: Italy
Feb 15th 2013, 2:04 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Are teachers allowed to give sweets to school kids? Wow!
In my day if you got sweets from the teacher it would mean you'd get a sore arse shortly afterwards. I'm not saying I got abused. I just...
Forum: Italy
Oct 24th 2012, 12:41 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Were they experimenting or something?
Forum: Italy
Sep 19th 2012, 6:49 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Do they teach the kids to wipe their bottoms at scuola materna? TBH at home we wipe our 4yr old's bottom... I suppose now is as good time as any to teach him.
Forum: Italy
Sep 12th 2012, 8:39 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Cars parked all over the place this morning, triple parked even in some places and gangs of parents standing around gates overflowing onto the road in front - bloody schools have started again!
Forum: Italy
Sep 6th 2012, 12:54 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Modern Languages? What a complete and utter waste of time! I just don't get why somebody would choose this as a subject.
Forum: Italy
Aug 27th 2012, 9:23 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

When I was at Uni, if you failed then it was either taking the whole year again or retaking a couple of modules in the summer. If you failed again then you were basically told that you were not...
Forum: Italy
Aug 27th 2012, 8:42 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

The fees are paid by the Scottish government up front.
Forum: Italy
Aug 27th 2012, 7:15 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 259,978
Posted By duffer

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Well... You could send the kids to Scotland and get 100% discount on the tuition fees...
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