School in France

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My child (year 10) and I have been discussing improving foreign language skills, she is keen to spend a term at school in France, we could either go there together and rent somewhere or she could go to boarding school. Has anyone done anything similar? Have any suggestions or comments? Recommendations? (She has done 2 years bilingual education English/French in primary and we are EU passport holders)
Thanks

You might look at EJM Lille. Not cheap though.

Have you asked whether your DD would get her school place back when she returns?

Less of a problem with a private school if you continue paying the fees, I imagine.

But in both state and private schools, how will she catch up with her other subjects after missing a term?

Depends if the uk school follows gcse syllabus. Taking a term in year 10 would disrupt that and creates gaps in curriculum. I’ve only known this in private schools where they paid fees to keep the place open.

What an interesting idea!
Perhaps it would be easier for her to go to a summer camp/summer school in France, or some other Francophone country/region? A whole summer of speaking French, without interrupting the education at home.

We moved to France with school-age children a few years ago. I'd say Year 10 is quite late to do an exchange-style full term, though might be possible if you could afford an international/bilingual school which is used to supporting children switching systems. I know quite a few French families who did this the other way round -- sent children to England for a term or a year, but usually a bit younger, 11/12 ish (often to a boarding prep school). If you just move to France for a while she'd be allocated a school of course but I think that would be very tough on her unless she is both fully bilingual and also fully literate in French and has some experience of French education. French education is a very different 'style' from England. In the bigger cities, newly arrived children who aren't able to keep up in a mainstream school get sent initially to an immersion programme and then transfer back to the mainstream once their language is up to speed. I don't think that would be much fun for her though.

Wouldn’t you be better off spending the summer there, rather than disrupting her GCSE courses.

https://www.rotarygbi.org/projects/young-people/rotary-youth-exchange/ could be worth looking into..

Check first if her school would support this..