http://www.labels4kids.com/blog/2009/05/26/exchange-students-for-school-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ Everything you always wanted to know on personalised name labels for starting school, why we need them, why we love and hate them, how to apply name tags and labels to right way,which ones are good and which are not, the trials and tribulations of life with young kids at primary school. This blog gives you the highs and the lows, help sort your lost property problems, give you fundraising ideas and hopefully a laugh too! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.labels4kids.com/blog/2009/05/26/exchange-students-for-school-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-3508 Ann-Maree Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:54:56 +0000 http://www.labels4kids.com/blog/?p=337#comment-3508 A little. However if she is going with the school she will be with a group of English speaking kids some of the time (atleast half you would hope) so she should manage. We will be facing the same dilemma as our son is due to go back next April. I do hope it will be fine as he is excited about it anyway. I must say though that having had no thank you or feedback from the other family since the student's return home has not been encouraging for us at all. Perhaps a note is winging it's way to us via the school but as yet not a peep despite everything we did at this end. We just hope he will be treated in just as nice a way over there. She will hopefully learn sign language well if nothing else! What we found here is all the kids visiting us had mobile phones and were all texting and phoning their parents daily, and each other. That really helped them from their side of the exchange. So my advice, send her with a mobile phone activated ready to get in touch with the UK and update you. I would hope your child's school would atleast allow that. Good luck and let us know how it goes! A little. However if she is going with the school she will be with a group of English speaking kids some of the time (atleast half you would hope) so she should manage. We will be facing the same dilemma as our son is due to go back next April. I do hope it will be fine as he is excited about it anyway. I must say though that having had no thank you or feedback from the other family since the student’s return home has not been encouraging for us at all. Perhaps a note is winging it’s way to us via the school but as yet not a peep despite everything we did at this end. We just hope he will be treated in just as nice a way over there. She will hopefully learn sign language well if nothing else! What we found here is all the kids visiting us had mobile phones and were all texting and phoning their parents daily, and each other. That really helped them from their side of the exchange. So my advice, send her with a mobile phone activated ready to get in touch with the UK and update you. I would hope your child’s school would atleast allow that. Good luck and let us know how it goes!

]]> http://www.labels4kids.com/blog/2009/05/26/exchange-students-for-school-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-3479 freyadevon Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:32:26 +0000 http://www.labels4kids.com/blog/?p=337#comment-3479 My twelve year old girl is going on a French exchange with school next week for 8 days to a family who seem to speak no English and my daughter's French is pretty limited. Am I right to be worried?! My twelve year old girl is going on a French exchange with school next week for 8 days to a family who seem to speak no English and my daughter’s French is pretty limited. Am I right to be worried?!

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