The most vital aspect of help given at Angela's School is probably difficult for teachers in the international schools to evaluate.

This is the help given with the transition from a foreign education system to the requirements of a local international school. A tremendous adjustment is often needed by all members of a newly arrived family in Spain and in many cases Angela's School represents an immediate, warm, friendly, stable environment for the children for some hours every day, and at the same time, a rich and dynamic learning experience.

Integration into the local schools and community is helped by walks, camps and outings, sometimes with other schools, socialising and making new friends with other students at the centre and at shared birthday parties.

Both Michael and Angela benefitted from an excellent teacher training and educational system themselves in Zimbabwe when it was a British colony and continue to emphasise the same basic values which the students are expected to acquire. These include the traditional values such as:

• Respect for other students, teachers and the community.
• Good behaviour including polite greetings and farewells.
• A positive attitude towards learning.

Both Angela and Michael use their very considerable experience of working with children to do everything possible to communicate these values to students, sometimes in a very short period of time.

The child that enters the international school is often a very different to the child that entered Angela's School only a few months earlier.