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| I think a French public nursery to start will be our best option as my son will pick up French and I can cope...and then when it comes to proper school at age 4, he'll need to go private as we're only here for 2 years, so when we go back at age 5, he needs to be able to read and write otherwise he will be left behind. | |
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Keep in mind that the public nurseries (creches) often have very long waiting lists and can take years to get into. Like the above poster mentioned, many of the private international schools have a programme for 3 year olds, CDL comes to mind, and thus you may want to start out there at 3 and keep the continuity until age 5. You also stand a much better chance of gaining a place.
Also, just to clarify, the norm in this area of Switzerland is school at 4, not 5 or later as some have mentioned. As both GE and VD adopted HarmoS, this will become 'mandatory' at age 4 (not optional) for the cantons accepting HarmoS as of 2011 I believe.