January 2008

We have 2.5 years of international school funding left, but I am beginning to think we need to take the bull by the horns and work out what we should do long term for schooling.

I start to make enquiries about the other international schools in Zurich with bigger facilities, and we go to visit the nearest one, c.10km away, that is authorised for the IB right up to Diploma level. We are impressed, the school run would only be 5 minutes more than I am doing at the moment, and the facilities are good.We like the idea of the boys following the IB as they are both flourishing under the Primary Years Programme and the enquiry-led learning on which the IB is based. We join the waiting list, but it’s highly unlikely that places for both boys will become available at the same time as each other, and we almost definitely won’t get places for the next school year.

In addition, I need to find a well paid job within 3 years in order to pay the fees, in a country where my German language skills are developing painfully slowly.