German schools - help please

[MmeLindor.]

soooooo, it looks as if we are leaving Switzerland soon. DH has to go back to Munich.

My problem is that DD is 10yo so would go into 4. Klasse in Germany - straight into the exams in April to decide if she should go to Gymansium or Realschule.

She speaks German, but is not fluent and I don't think she would manage even to get the pass mark 3.3 that is required for Realschule.

We are thinking about moving to Scotland for 6 mths (me and the dc) and possibly moving over to Germany after the summer hols. Or maybe not at all, depending on DH's job.

So. Question.

If we move back to Germany in summer next year, how will they decide where DD goes? Will she have to do a test, or will they put her into a school based on her UK school results.?

I have googled but not found out what would be likely to happen. Any ideas?

What about some intensive additional tuition to get her german and maths up to standard?

don't they have state bilinguals in Munich? They have 3 English-German (or possibly now even 4) primaries in Berlin. If they have that kind of school, she would go into the English mother tongue stream and it would not matter if she were behind in her German. Dc come andgo in the English mother tongue groups right through primary and they move on to the state bilingual secondaries

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would have thought Munich has the same kind of set up

Hello all.
We're planning to relocate to Berlin in 2012, and searching out schools now.
DS not a native German speaker has just turned 6 as he was born in November 2005, and is enrolled in a overseas German school in kindergarten. As a kannkind he could've have gone into Grade 1, but we chose to go with kindergarten.
It seems that in Berlin the cutoff date for kannkind is in December, and so DS would not be considered one.
My question: we want to enroll him as a Grade 1 student in autumn 2012 in Berlin, as he would definitely struggle as Grade 2. Will that be possible at any of the schools public or private in the area?
Thanks!

Can't help with the German aspect of it, but I have BTDT with a child who was trailing in maths due to a weak teacher.

Tutoring is one option, but there are also online subscription services too that are worth looking into.

Maths Whizz

Mathletics

I've used both, prefer mathletics for an older child (10 plus).

Getting DS up to speed took a whole summer of daily use, doing three sessions between 15 minutes to half an hour, plus lots of the Live Maths challenge because his mental maths was awful. He wasn't too grumpy about it....most days.

Worth looking into if one to one tutoring isn't an option.