I got news today that Vigo got a spot at the Berlin Kids International School. This is a new school in the neighborhood of Friedrichshain. This is only the school's second year, so it's kind of exciting getting in on the beginning of a new project.
He'll get extra German lessons at school until he's up to the same level as his classmates. Every classroom has two teachers – one English speaker and one German speaker. English is used for roughly 60-70% of all teaching in the first three years of schooling, balancing out to 50% from Year Four onwards.
The classrooms are mixed age, like he would have had started having next year at his current school. Actually, there is a lot about the pedagogical concept of this school that reminds me of the Healey Choice Program.
It's a big relief having this major detail of our lives straightened out!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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