Local schools & Homeschooling

Hello Daniel, I work in a British Montessori school but as publicity is not allowed I won't tell you the name :) just ask what you need and maybe I can orientate you

Cheers, ^__^

We moved 2 years ago with our 10 year old son.  A small Spanish village with Spanish school. And no other English kids. 

Within 3 months he was conversing in Spanish. The school were amazing and offered us the option of him not doing French. But instead during French lessons he was taught more Spanish 1-1 with a teacher. 

He passed both years and is now fluent and heading to high school.  

The real question is how old are your children? Once teens they struggle to pick up the language quickly. 

Also the area you plan to live ? If on a expat community then a lot harder. If all your neighbours and friends are Spanish you have to learn. 

Hi , thank you for your reply. We want to homeschool our children as we have been doing for many years if we decide to move to Spain 

There is so much contradicting advice out there ..Can we legally homes

I have No idea if you can home school here. I assume so.

However unless one of you speak fluent Spanish........ the kids are unlikely to pick it up rapidly. And without school integration near on impossible. 

But then again you could live in a Uk community and teach your kids as normal. 

No need for Spanish in certain areas.  VERY SAD but true 

We all want to learn Spanish and will be taking lessons before we make the big move. As we have homeschooled our children most of their school careers we want to keep doing it even when moving to Spain. Some website say it’s legal and some say it’s not - we just want hi know that if we homeschool we are not breaking Spanish laws.

Good luck with your move. 

And Spanish lessons. 

Spanish people must be schooled from 6 to 16 years old by law, and if you do not allow your child going to school you can get into big problems (they can charge you with abuse, abandonment and neglect, which is relatively easy to prove otherwise). There is controversy as Spanish Constitution tells about Compulsory Education, and not about Compulsory Schooling, so at the end it depends on legal interpretation by education authorities. But as education authorities are different in every Autonomous Community, you find people openly homeschooling on Catalonia, and Basque Country, and in the rest of Spain, clandestine families afraid of busybody whistleblowers.

You as foreigners should have no problem unless you become residents, then you would have all the pros and cons.