If anyone in Malaga or nearby cities has found a great school for children in primaria or secundaria, please write! We have a child who is still small, attends kindergarten and will likely continue until primaria. But we already want to take a look around and understand if there are schools here with a humane and modern approach and a reasonable workload (private schools are okay).
Spanish public schools have the same curriculum. In Malaga, there are English, German, French, IB, etc. In private schools, as a rule, the level of foreign language teaching is higher and the school day is longer - there is a higher workload.
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@Karina: I am from this region - my son studies in Germany. I know that many here hire tutors even in elementary school due to insufficient language proficiency. I only know one private school following the Spanish system, attendis. About public schools, it will be roughly the same.
@Karina: I had a negative experience with attendis regarding the summer camp. They really didn't like the 3-year-old child who didn’t speak Spanish. The following year, they just announced that there were no spots available. I don’t know anything about Montessori, but I am generally not a supporter of this system for healthy children. Enroll them in enforex camp in the summer - they will improve their Spanish and the atmosphere is good.
@Marina: About Attendis, there are frightening reviews with accusations against the teachers for racism. I don't even want to think that something like this could come from teachers in the school. Have you heard anything about the Montessori primary school?
Thank you. Just from the feedback of parents about the schools I know, at the infant stage, parents are already doing homework for their children, competing in every way and boasting that their child can count to 15 in English at the age of 3. On the other hand, there are schools that have the opposite reviews, described as super-basic and lacking any individual approach. Therefore, it’s interesting if someone has been able to find a golden mean. I'm not considering language schools primarily; I think it would be best to learn Russian and Spanish first))
@Karina: Well, we taught the child in the nursery to count in English and Spanish. But they just learned it like a rhyme: a sequence of words. There's no understanding of counting. The same goes for reading now: they memorize syllables with vowels, and then they learn to recognize those syllables. They aren’t taught the connection of letters into syllables and words. So, he walks around repeating these rhymes, for example: pa, po, pi, pu, pa, etc. Yes, he recognizes these syllables in words, but he can't read.