lynnxa

in the Valencia region will now be available for all primary school children

'Los alumnos de primero y segundo recibirán 122 euros; 127 los de tercero y cuarto, y 132 los de quinto y sexto'

the students of 1st & 2nd years will recieve 122 euros; 127 those of the 3rd & 4th, and 132 those of the 5th & 6th

more here

http://www.levante-emv.com/secciones...-proximo-curso



sorry no time to translate any more but that was the important bit!!

jdr

Just been to a school meeting here this morning.
No such luck with my Grand daughters first year here at her school, 65€`s to pay, but they get a voucher towards the cost of books etc in the second year. ;-)

lynnxa

it won't cover all the books in any case - and we'll still have to buy all the librettas, pens & so on

and no doubt there will be something like 25-30 euros to pay for classroom supplies


and the 25ish euros for AMPA


and in excess of 200 euros for dd1's books





still, every little helps

snikpoh

Our son is in 1 ESO (secondary school) his books cost 320 euros this year but we will still get a contribution as we are "familia numerosa" (3 or more children). So, if you have 3 or more, it's worth applying for this!

valenciatim

I have been told that I can't register as "familia numerosa" as only two of mine are in the family book. I couldn't add my UK born son to it?

lynnxa

dunno about that

I know 'familias numerosas' who were all born in the UK who get it

snikpoh

That'll be us then (as well ) - all three born in UK.

jdr

Well my daughter can`t add her daughter to the book because she was born in the UK ?
Must be one of those Spanish grey areas. lol

lynnxa

I think they are trying it on with Tim!

a lot of families around here fill in the forms for help with book payments - you can get help if you are on a low income & for various other reasons

my older dd asked why we didn't apply - I said I'd read the form & we didn't qualify

apparently a lot of her friends parents had filled in the forms - 'and they've got more money than us!' in my dd's words


guess what - they didn't get anything!

valenciatim

How did you register? As My Town hall say they can't add our eldest son to the family book because he was born in the UK!

lynnxa

they don't have to be added to the book as far as I know

they just have to exist!

you get a form from the school in order to claim

jdr

Right I will get her to check it out as this is her first year at the school as she is only just three, she has been at kindergarten before.

lynnxa

there was a family at our school last year who had 5 kids, 4 in school - all born in the UK (they've gone back now - lasted about a year)

they just filled in the form they got from school and qualified

valenciatim

Thanks Lynn, more running around with the school! Have just spent 2 days running round trying to sort out distancias (for the school bus, even though the house hasn't moved since we have been here, we still have to fill a form in, each year, to give to the Town Hall, to give to the Policia Local, to measure the distance! And they have to to one for each child!) and the book grant too for next term!

lynnxa

jeez - we only have to do that if we've moved!


come to think of it we have!!

all of about 50m so I'll get around to it sometime...........

as soon as they go back to school!

they send a form out at the end of the school year which you have to say if you've moved or not


we hadn't at the time!