10 Feb 2008 11:16 AM:
Thank you all for your comments re the girls. My two younger girls age 11 and 10 have been given tremendous help. They have been doing seperate work to their class to enable them to learn the language but they are both now at a stage where they are starting to do the same work as the class and might I add that they are getting similar results as their friends in tests, not bad for 4/5 months of schooling. One of the teachers gives them extra lessons after school two nights a week for two hours each night and it is free. In the senior school we did have to go and ask for extra help but again they have been more than helpful...
I agree with Barbara that if a child wants to learn they will no matter where they go.... I worked in a primary school in a special unit for kids who couldn't cope in a main stream class (the average age being between 4 -7) so I have come across some very difficult and challenging behaviour. Yes at such a young age.... I know in the senior schools back in Uk they have alot of units within schools for those who don't want to work. Don't get me wrong, my girls have said that some of the kids in their classes are really bad in class and there does sometimes seem to be a lack of discipline but I know the teachers who are involved with our girls are def willing to put the effort in for them as they see how much work the girls are doing to imrpove their spanish.
Just wish that my old brain would start to retain the language. I am struggling so much and get very frustrated.... My girls laugh at me when I try to speak with their friends because I always get it wront. Well at least I try, that's what I say......
Sherryl
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Schools - Spanish v International
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