We often see advice given to families who post on the forum about relocating to Spain that it will be very difficult, if not impossible, for children to move to Spain once they have reached secondary school age.
I saw this report today about a Portugese student who arrrived in the UK less than a year before sitting her GCSE exams:-
Portuguese student who came to England a year ago gets straight As in GCSE's - Manchester Evening News
Of course she had been learning English at school for some years before moving, but then again many British students of that age would have been learning a second language too. But would they find it so easy to switch to a new school, with subjects taught in their second language, and if not, why not?
I saw this report today about a Portugese student who arrrived in the UK less than a year before sitting her GCSE exams:-
Portuguese student who came to England a year ago gets straight As in GCSE's - Manchester Evening News
Of course she had been learning English at school for some years before moving, but then again many British students of that age would have been learning a second language too. But would they find it so easy to switch to a new school, with subjects taught in their second language, and if not, why not?