School hours: how do you manage it?
 

Hello,
Hope you can help me. We will be moving to La Linea next month and we have a major concern: finding a school for our 5 year old. I have found some schools both Spanish and international but there is something that worries me, school hours... Most school I enquire end by 3.30 pm. As both me and my husband will be working until 6 p.m., how can we manage it? Is there any after school programs? Can you please share your experience?
Thank you :)

Re: School hours: how do you manage it?
 

... and then theres the long summer holidays - mid June til September!!! IME. some schools offer afterschool type activities, but I dont think they're on til 6pm. you need to ask the schools in question

Jo xxx

Re: School hours: how do you manage it?
 

yes, some do - the International schools here do, but not the state schools

most parents have grandma pick the kids up or if that's not possible they take the kids to work with them until they finish

the summer will be the bigggest challenge - our local ayuntamiento does run 'summer school' - but not for the entire 12/13 weeks, and only til 2pm I think

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'round here the schools finish at 5:30. It's only the much younger children (under 5) who leave at 3:30.

As said before, this is where the extended family comes in - welcome to Spain.

PS: Actually, don't schools finish at 3:30 in UK as well?

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Hi, Thank you for your replies.
We live in Portugal right now. The school my daughter goes to runs until 7 pm. We will not have any relative with us so I'm thinking we will have to hire some help for a few hours.

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At the age of 5, our local primaria only goes to 2pm. There are after school activities (plus comedor to fill in the bit between) but I haven't the foggiest how anyone copes with working hours apart from - as others have said - family. Our international school finishes at 4 and there are afterschool things which might to go 5 if you're lucky. Certainly no later.

Re: School hours: how do you manage it?
 

so they do iirc!!


around here (just down the road from you) the infant & primary schools finish at 4:30 with a 2.5 hour break for comedor - although of course the kids can stay at school for that time

a lot of kids in the infants only do the morning session & finish at 12:30