Moving a family with a 5/6 and 8/9 year old to Pinar de Campoverde - Advice please? - Page 2

emmac859 wrote on Fri Jun 9, 2017 11:51am:

Hello there! We are a British couple (46/47 and 44/45) wishing to move to Pinar de Campoverde for the start of the school year in September 2018 when our children will be 9 and nearly 6. We have had a holiday home in the area for the last 2 years and now want to make a more permanent move especia...

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...lly for our children to learn Spanish and for all of us to enjoy the climate and more of an outdoor lifestyle. We have businesses in the UK we would continue to run remotely so are not dependent on earning an income in Spain although we would no doubt have to take residency if we were here more than 6 months a year. Obviously things are up in the air with Brexit but we have no problem getting private health insurance and if we could no longer attend a local Spanish school we would look to put our children into the private international school ELIS at Villamartin. Does anyone have any advice about:

- Renting in the area before we buy

- Good local Spanish schools & whether we might be accepted

- Best areas of PdC to look at properties where we would be onto faster roads more quickly (all important for that twice daily school run!)

- Social activities for people our age and whether there are many similarly aged children in the village

- Anything else we ought to think carefully about!

Many, many thanks in advance!

Emma & Mark

emmac859 wrote on Fri Jun 9, 2017 11:51am:

Hello there! We are a British couple (46/47 and 44/45) wishing to move to Pinar de Campoverde for the start of the school year in September 2018 when our children will be 9 and nearly 6. We have had a holiday home in the area for the last 2 years and now want to make a more permanent move especia...

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...lly for our children to learn Spanish and for all of us to enjoy the climate and more of an outdoor lifestyle. We have businesses in the UK we would continue to run remotely so are not dependent on earning an income in Spain although we would no doubt have to take residency if we were here more than 6 months a year. Obviously things are up in the air with Brexit but we have no problem getting private health insurance and if we could no longer attend a local Spanish school we would look to put our children into the private international school ELIS at Villamartin. Does anyone have any advice about:

- Renting in the area before we buy

- Good local Spanish schools & whether we might be accepted

- Best areas of PdC to look at properties where we would be onto faster roads more quickly (all important for that twice daily school run!)

- Social activities for people our age and whether there are many similarly aged children in the village

- Anything else we ought to think carefully about!

Many, many thanks in advance!

Emma & Mark

Andrea77 wrote on Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:23pm:

Hi

I visited the ELIS school last week and was looking for my 8 year old to start in Sept.  I have a house in Quesada and looking to move to Campoverde, but cant see a bus to the ELIS school from there.  I cant find a website for the mediterraneo school either.  Does anyone have ...

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...any further details for this school?

The ELIS school was excellent and children were/become fluent ibn both English and Spanish, fees not bad either!