watson66

can anyone help? we are seriously thinking of moving to either spain or mallorca but the biggest worry is schooling for our children age 7 and 10. Can anyone please advise where would be the best place to look.

Also is it very easy to rent out there, and find work.

Also do you still get family allowance and tax credits in living in an EU country.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards Tracy

lynnxa

spain is a huge country & there are international/english/bilingual schools all over the place - I don't know about mallorca though

I personally would consider spanish state school - certainly for the younger & possibly for the older child too - though not much older than 10 years - not everyone here will agree with me

do a search on this forum - try just putting in 'schooling' or 'education'


I'm pretty certain that you would lose both of those benefits if you came to spain - I know family allowance has to have a UK address

work is really hard to find - even for fluent spanish speakers - indeed even for the spanish themselves at the moment - unemployment is climbing at an alarming rate

lynnxa

look I even did it for you


jobs
http://britishexpats.com/forum/searc...archid=1053617


education

http://britishexpats.com/forum/searc...archid=1053633

fionamw

I would suggest Spanish state school asap, plus find yourself a native Spanish private tutor for your children after school maybe once a week. Our school actually (until this term - don't know why they stopped) had Spanish for foreign pupils lessons weekly as well, after hours. The sooner they're immersed, with at least 30% of waking hours among native Spanish speakers (to quote an article I read recently) the better. My 6 year old is now into his third year & although his vocabulary won't be as comprehensive as his classmates, his general understanding, tenses, pronunciation, etc., is doing fine. Older kids naturally will find it harder, so strike while the iron's hot. (nb all this has the caveat of where you set up home may have a backswood mentality for example on the education of girls, or no university expectations, etc..... but that doesn't usually kick in, if it's going to, until they're approaching 12 or 13)

jdunbavin

There is an English School in Seville which teaches the English curriculum, called Britannia.