25/03/2023
📚 🇳🇱 - Dutch Language schools in the UK - 🇬🇧
Many Dutch children spend (part of) their childhood in the UK, in the British or International School System. Upon returning to the Netherlands, they usually are required to speak Dutch when they (re-)enter the Dutch education system, whether this is at primary school or university.
Hence, would you like your child(ren) to keep up with the Dutch language? You may consider sending them to a Dutch Language and Culture School.
The UK hosts several schools that offer Dutch language and culture classes and where passionate Dutch teachers provide students Dutch education on a weekly basis. Most schools are connected to the Foundation for Dutch Education Abroad (Stichting Nederlands Onderwijs in het Buitenland, or NOB (since 1980).
We made a brief overview –apart from private tuition and online education– of the options in the UK:
London area
* Richmond Dutch School (http://richmonddutchschool.org.uk)
* De Nederlandse Regenboogschool (Saturday mornings), http://regenboogschool.org.uk/
* Fulham Dutch School
Kent
* De Zeven Eiken (Monday afternoons), http://www.7eiken.co.uk/
Oxfordshire
* NTC De Droomtorens Oxford (Saturday mornings), http://www.dedroomtorens.org.uk/
Cambridge
* De Vaarboom (Saturday mornings), http://www.devaarboom.co.uk/
Chester
* De Luchtballon (Saturday Morning), http://www.deluchtballon.co.uk/index.php/nl/
Aberdeen
* International School of Aberdeen (during regular school days) https://www.isa.aberdeen.sch.uk/.../dutch-language-culture
See for general info about Dutch education abroad the website of NOB: http://www.stichtingnob.nl