Can dd yr 10 move schools from welsh to english without too much worry ?

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It seems that our dd is being bullied and if it doesnt get sorted very quickly im not going to watch her get more and more withdrawn. I could move her if she wants to-very bright straight A usually popular well liked caring girl. Im sure she`d fit inamnd make friends well enough but would her education suffer a lot ?
Shes facing school everyday but is scared and sad.
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Bless her, I hope the situation improves soon. I don't know about the differences between Welsh and English schools but I would imagine she would have to change syllabus for a lot of her GCSE subjects if she moved schools. My DP still blames his mum for moving him between yr 10 and 11 as he had done a load of course work for one subject which was just an exam in the new school and then for other subjects he repeated most of the topics and never learnt others.

He was happy at his old school so it was a different situation to your DD but those last two years at school are pretty important I think that you need to move her sooner rather than later.

Sorry to hear this, feel sorry for your daughter. Well, if you live on the Wales/English border (as we do) it's quite easy to change IMO. One difference is that English schools tend to do AQA exam board but more and more English schools are taking WJEC exams so it's worth asking about that.Also, there won't be any Welsh exam to do, which may be a welcome bonus for your DD. However, there might be other subjects that she is not familiar with and these might need a bit of catching up on. It's worth a try IMO but depends how near exams she is now. What age?

Sorry, just realised she's in Year 10.I think move now before she gets behind with coursework. GCSE is a two year course in lots of subjects.

My DS1 moved from Welsh language school (discipline was poor in that school) to another Welsh language school in Yr 10. He found this hard enough and it did effect his grades for GCSE as e.g some Gcse poems were covered at his previous school in yr 9 were repeated in the new one, and of course this meant that some work that he hadn't covered yet had already been done in the new school. Also stadards were better in the new school, so there were some glaring holes in his education from the previous school. So it depends on the course coverage. Son was happier in new school though.
DS2 moved from Welsh languge primary school to english languge secondary and it's the best thing I could have done.

DO you mean moving from Wales to England, or moving to an English-medium school in Wales?
If you're moving within Wales then there's a pretty good chance the 2nd school will be using the WJEC exam board too. You'd want to check that that though. She'll probably have missed some course content that the other school have already covered, but given that she's still only in Year 10, I don't think it'd be too difficult to catch up.

Even if she'll have different exam boards, I think moving would be the right thing to do. If she has to stay in a school she's unhappy with, her education will suffer anyway.

The language difference will be difficult in some subjects such as science or history for example, but not too difficult to justify her staying at her current school.