jivefeet

hello everyone first post so be gentle

My family are at the talking stage of moving to Murcia spain and looking at schools for my two grandchildren age 7 and 13, Kings College looks good and is in the area we would go, does anyone have children at this school, is it a free school or fee paying, I have looked on there website but can't see anything about fees

thank you for reading

leighbloke

It's a fee paying school.
I'm going to La Torre in a couple of weeks - I'll let you know if they're a quiet bunch on my return.

jivefeet

thank you for replying, strange they dont have their fees on the website, I wonder how expensive they are

leighbloke

If you work on £2500 (+ extras) per term you'll be in the right ballpark.

sarahchirles

Wow... I assume you get to **** a proper Princess for that money?

Relampago

In Spain, and for example in Murcia, there are public schools and private schools (of payment)...What place is of Murcia? The city of Murcia, or some population of the province of Murcia?

rugbymatt

and you would know all about that eh?

thehollos

Hi,
My son goes to the BRitish school Of Alicante which is one of the Kings College group. They are the same school in 3 locations. Alicante, Murcia and Madrid.

The school is excellent and he has settled well. He is 10. It is costly (7000 euros a year + 200 for uniform and then bus on top) but it is worth it. My only concern is his Spanish studies. At 10 he is with children who are very fluent in English so the playground language is also English. He gets 8 hours spanish a week but the schools are very " we are an English school and spanish is not to be spoken in class".

So extra tuition is needed if you want them to go onto Spanish higher educ.
The discipline, structure, facilities are first class in all their schools.

jivefeet

wow they have 2 children each so a lot of money, do you have to buy the books as well

also the eldest age 13 is a gifted A student, she swims twice a day and is not far off qualifying times for olympics, she is also an olympic hopefull in badminton, is it a good school for sports

jivefeet

oops forgot to say thanks for your replies, also are there any other English speaking schools in Murcia

thehollos

No thankfully we don't have to buy books or pay for meals or trips etc. Afterschool activities are expensive though, well compared to the regional ones.

There is another school El Limonar (?) which is nearer Torreveija.

leighbloke

As this is a forum and given I can't keep my thoughts to myself - If the kid is as gifted as the above reads and has serious aspirations of making use of these - I don't think it would be a wise move - I don't remember reading of Spain producing many/any swimming or badders champeens.
As for the educational excellence, The UK is by far the best option in Europe - Spain doesn't even come close, even Spains best, is hardly a Cambridge, UCL, Manchester or even Leeds.
I'd say put it on hold for 5 or 6 years.

Debrina

Hi just be carefull, as my kids started at King's college san pedro in Marbella, and the school was not owned by King's but in fact a franciase...which resulted in the owner of school having a dissagreement with the directors of King's and they withdrew their francise..and we were left with a no name school no headmaster, no money and the uniform having to be changed etc etc...so check it is not a francise first.
My children were very disrupted but now we have been taken over and now feel comfortable with the the new owners.
Hope this is some help,
Regards

jivefeet

once again thanks for your replies, we need to find out as much as we can before we make any plans to move and would never go if it wasn't suitable for the childrens education and sporting talents, funny thing is we thought it would be better

I have tried google for sports centers, and swimming clubs and coaches but seem to get private health clubs and hotels