What to do with the kids this summer…
Mother-of-three Wendy Andersen gives tips on surviving the long, hot Andalucian summer
Malaga schoolchildren ‘too noisy’, says Junta
Disciplinary proceedings launched against Parque Clavero School after neighbours complained about the racket
Expat teen scoops Spanish writing prize
Chloe Madison Grubb won first prize in Coca Cola short story contest
Dyslexia didn’t stop Einstein
How to help your child deal with dyslexia... and be as successful as Richard Branson, Whoopi Goldberg or genius Albert Einstein
How to keep pests off your lunch in Spain
Want a good way to stop wasps from ruining your lunch? Try this, writes Wendy Andersen
Herald the dawn of the Spanish ‘dive-bomb’ wasp
LISTEN UP: Spain provides the world with a rare new species, writes Eloise Horsfield
Child care costs crippling UK families
Figures show UK has the world's highest childcare costs
Expat’s new book to help Spanish children with English
Briton set to tour schools with book Dreamstones in bid to get kids interested
Private education is ‘corrosive’ to UK society, claims Clegg
Deputy Prime Minister claims massive gap between state and private schools is damaging the economy
T-Rex terrorises Marbella school pupils
Ashley Bolton on a school topic 65 million years in the making
Briton wonders ‘were4 art thou rmo’
Student translates famous scene from Romeo and Juliet into text speak
We are not Spanish sardines!
School strikes over plans to see class sizes increased to up to 42 pupils
Miguel Angel Jimenez to play in Butterfly event at Aloha Golf
The Spanish golfer will take part in a tournament to helps children with the incurable condition
Still Searching for a Star in Marbella
Quick! The last talent show audition takes place this Saturday
What was Guernica?
LISTEN UP: In this new section, Wendy Andersen gives a potted history on Spain’s most famous painting, which was inspired by the bombing of Guernica
Seussical the Musical takes San Roque by storm!
Students from Sotogrande school perform in Seussical the Musical, based on the Dr Seuss children’s stories
Mind the gap
Swans pupil Guillermo Fernandez (year 13) on why taking a year out between school and university may not be the best idea
Bronze medal for young Estepona figure skater
Bobbie Holgate-Pope, 11, wowed judges at Blackpool Ice Festival
Hey, big(ish) spenders!
Spanish schools are above OECD averages when it comes to school spending... and even beat the UK
A wonderful way with words
Sotogrande International School embraced World Poetry Day by asking its pupils to pen a few lines
But will we fit in?
Parents more concerned that other families are ‘people like us’ than about discipline
Fine schools for illiterate kids
Schools could be punished if children remain illiterate when they move to secondary schools
Bittersweet victory for OPX writing competiton winner
It was a classic mistake that any newcomer to Spain could have easily made
OPX writing competition runners-up
Elena Peel and Jasper Kettell's accounts of Cadiz and Via Verdes
Have parents gone soft?
One in five American parents has stopped reading their children the classics because they are 'too scary'
OPX writing competition winner (11 and under)
Queenie Molly Argent compares two very different Andalucias in her winning piece