School! The kids are going to a British Montessori school this year. This means that the teachers are either English speaking or bilingual and they use a Montessori approach, but for the older students they are preparing to take the British GCSE school exit exams.
G is in KS4, a year before they typically take the exams, but he wants to try taking a few elective exams at the end of this year, possibly music and history. There are only 2 other children in KS4, but they are combined with KS2 and KS3, so he has plenty of kids near his age and several he already gets along with well. Luckily one of the families lives just 2 buildings down, so we can share bus accompanying duties and the kids can get together often. They started he and the other new students on a half-day last week, so he has had a bit of time to adjust. The school is relatively new, so their Secondary School program is growing and developing. There will likely be some bumps along the way, but overall I think it will be a great place for him. And so far he is happy with it.
L is in the second of three years of upper primary. She had her first day today. The students who were there last year started last week to get the classroom ready and get to know the routines so they could be in the swing of things to help the 7 new students along. The entire upper primary has 25 children, so this is a good chunk of the children. She loves her teachers and she said the children were nice and friendly. Many of the students have known each other for several years, so I expect it will take a little bit before they figure out how to incorporate the new students, but hopefully it will happen sooner than later. She said she also got to make a science experiment journal, do some geography, and read a Harry Potter book, all of which she enjoyed. She didn't enjoy the watermelon soup but she did enjoy the spaghetti she had for lunch. Overall a good start to her school year.
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