do you school in Dinan or St Malo (or thereabouts)?

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Want to start investigating options for dd of 7 after primary. We're half time in France and she's in a Jersey primary though we would consider moving her. The secondary choice here is v.ltd with the grammar starting at 14. I wonder whether we could fill the gap with a French school, it might have to be boarding but we'd want her to be able to come home at w.e. is this impossible? Aware lots of issues re. delicate age, moving from flexible to more rigid rote based system, language etc.

Does anyone have any experience of schools in this area...am a bit concerned by the violence in schools stats on the French entree website.

There are 2 schools (one state, one private catholic) with bilingual sections in Rennes, which might be worth considering if she is to return to the UK system at some point, and to help with integration. One of them (St Vincent) offers boarding, but not that many schools offer it from 11. Boarding houses (internats) tend to close at weekends so going home wouldn't be a problem.

Re violence, I don't think French schools are any more violent than UK ones (Jersey might be a haven of peace in that respect!) if you compare like with like.

Thank you that's helpful. I'll investigate and organise to visit. She's not impressed with the idea at the moment but I think thats language fear and feeling happy where she is. Jersey isn't immune from the violence issue, I think its a function of large schools. Don't really understand why the small scale model can't be carried over from primary. Do you have children at either of these?

Not yet, but my DD is starting college in September so we're visiting the state one soon. It's in quite a rough area but friends whose son is there are happy with it. We know some families with children at the private one, but we're not considering it because it's very old fashioned in terms of its teaching methods, strict and too bourgeois for our liking!

...probably lost you, have been visiting family in Newfoundland and now want to move there! Imagine I'm probably bourgeois in my tastes...but not sure! I don't think catholic education is good for young women and I'd need to find out what strict means. Are they allowed to use physical punishment/ridicule in France? I hope your visit goes well