Originally Posted by D4HWT

Hi,

I just got back from CB and spent most of my time looking between alicante and Oliva. Visited 2 british schools, Sierra Bernia which is in l'alfaz just outside Benidorm and Lady Elizabeth School which is in Lliber. My kids are 8,12 and 14. Both schools are very different as SB is very small and has limited resources but is very nice. Lady Elizabeth school is fantastic,much bigger but it is expensive. The facilities are excellent but the junior school is in Javea and is a 30 minute drive from the secondary. I turned up at both schools without an appointment and they were both keen to show us round and talk to us.
I visited the british school of alicante which is about 2 Km south of Alicante itself but i didn't go in to talk to anyone as i ran out of time.
Both schools have websites and everything is taught in english the same as UK except spanish language has to be a core subject. SB costs a bit less than Lady Elizabeth and you can see why when you visit.
I fell in love with Javier and Altea Hills areas.

Hope this is of some help to you

Originally Posted by debi

thanks for your info D4HWT but we will be putting our children into a spanish state school. we,re trying to learn as much of the language as we can before we get out there so it shouldnt be too hard for them and i,ve heard that once we,re living over there it should be much easier to learn due to them mixing with spanish children more.

debi

Originally Posted by Mitzyboy

The power of the internet ... did you know the urb has its own web site?

http://www.lamarina.info/

It looks bloody huge!!!

Originally Posted by jdr

They will be speaking it within a couple of months no problem.
Dont forget to help them with the English at home also if you want them to be properly bi-lingual ;-)

Originally Posted by debi

this may sound really silly of me but do they teach castillon or valencian in south CB? we,ve just started learning the basic spanish but have heard i could be teaching them the wrong one for where we are going!