My DSs (ages 9 & 7) are both near-fluent Spanish speakers, and have spent a year in school doing the regular Spanish class once a week, where they learn the colours and numbers and animal names and body parts OVER and OVER and OVER. I recently met a mum at school who is Spanish, CRB checked and a teacher, and willing to teach my boys IN school time but doesn't have time after school or on weekends. When I proposed to the school that I pay this mum to come in and teach the boys separately during their normal Spanish lesson, the school refused. Instead they have offered to send home a few sheets of extra homework. But to me this doesn't address the problem of appropriate level teaching.
If the subject were maths and my boys were at the level of advanced geometry and calculus, they would address that, wouldn't they? But as it's a language, that's not considered important enough. And my boys have to just sit there and get bored.
Does anyone else have experience with this? My school says it is never done, getting someone else in to teach. But that's not true really, as they have musical instrument and drama lessons one-on-one in school. Anyone got any ideas?