The unfolding story of Gwilym's scolarité
It was nice to see our old friends yesterday. When they went to Austria their family was young. Their two lads were 10 and about 7 when they went, I think. The 7-year-old was having speech therapy just prior to them leaving. The older lad changed school every year for four years running. It was hard, but both were fine. Both are fine now.
Gwilym and German (ha !) : If he goes from 4 hours of German a week to 2 hours he'll have to change class. (I thought as much. Timetabling is going to be awful for next year, without further complications !) Yesterday was the conseil de classe anyway that decides whether kids go on to the next year or no. So here is where we are :
If they decide that Gwilym should redo the year he'll change to Spanish.
If they decide to brave it out and that he continue in the 4-hour German class, fine.
If they decide he should reduce to 2 hours per week and change class, then I'll go and talk it through with the headmaster and explore the possibility of changing to do Spanish instead, seeing that I can help him catch up.
We'll see!
His marks in English are always 19 or 20 /20 (predictably) but also in French he gets really very good marks, ranging from 15/20 up to 19/20.
Thanks for praying about this. We feel very surrounded by folks as we puzzle this one through. It's not (thankfully) a major preoccupation. After all, for his exam subjects he may not end up choosing to do German in the end. It's a minor blip. A process to go through. A discussion with the school. A time of reflexion. A learning and growing experience.
Gwilym and German (ha !) : If he goes from 4 hours of German a week to 2 hours he'll have to change class. (I thought as much. Timetabling is going to be awful for next year, without further complications !) Yesterday was the conseil de classe anyway that decides whether kids go on to the next year or no. So here is where we are :
If they decide that Gwilym should redo the year he'll change to Spanish.
If they decide to brave it out and that he continue in the 4-hour German class, fine.
If they decide he should reduce to 2 hours per week and change class, then I'll go and talk it through with the headmaster and explore the possibility of changing to do Spanish instead, seeing that I can help him catch up.
We'll see!
His marks in English are always 19 or 20 /20 (predictably) but also in French he gets really very good marks, ranging from 15/20 up to 19/20.
Thanks for praying about this. We feel very surrounded by folks as we puzzle this one through. It's not (thankfully) a major preoccupation. After all, for his exam subjects he may not end up choosing to do German in the end. It's a minor blip. A process to go through. A discussion with the school. A time of reflexion. A learning and growing experience.
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