International School of the Algave EIA Porches

[SharonODubai]

Recently I visited the school and liked what I saw, BUT I have heard bad reports on this forum, BUT they were a few years old now, is there ANYONE our there with something possitive to say about it.

Many thanks

Sxxx

[sunman]

hello Sharon,

we've had 2 sons there for the past 8 years and overall can't complain about it;

pluses; the class sizes are quite small, the teachers are all nice, the level of education is more than good enough and our boys seem generally to go out laughing & come home laughing

minuses; our main gripe is the almost total lack of sports, there's PE and the play football at lunchtime but there's nothing organised; my wife is a tennis nut so the boys go to Carvoeiro Clube de Tennis where they play with all their friends & have tennis lessons

lots of folk have left the school in the past 2 years because of the crunch which is goof for class numbers but it means the odd good teacher has left

happy to help with any other info

Sunman

[James Faro]

The school was recently featured in the Algarve Resident newspaper for excellent O and A level(or equivalent) examination results. If you go to their website it should be featured in their archives section etc.