Thanks to all who have posted since my last post - our computer broke down and it took an age for the shop to fix. We finally made our decision and it was to send our daughter to the International School after the summer. As my husband works for an International company, there is always the possibility that we could be expatriated within the next 3-4 years where the schooling available may be more likely to be in English rather than French. I should point out that our daughter was born in France and up to the age of 2-1/2yrs had a french-speaking childminder (as I worked part-time when we lived in Paris) and all her friends are French. All our neighbours and people we know are French. We do speak English at home and always have done. She had been at the local school for over a year and her behavioural problems hadn't improved during this time (we thought they might). It may well be that her behaviour may not improve even after changing to a school that teaches in her mother tongue but time will tell. We recognised that she needed to be challenged, as she seemed to be spending most of her days drawing and colouring in at school and after speaking to the "directrice" of the local school it became clear that she wasn't going to be challenged if she stayed. Once we had advised the local school of our decision, the directrice spoke to us and said that she had thought we'd made the right decision for our daughter (take from that what you will)!! We did not want to force speaking french with her at home because the last thing we wanted was for her to retreat within herself due to her reluctance to speak with us in French. We do however manage to expose her to French through Dora DVDs, Muzzy, etc; and by doing exercise books in french (i.e. vocabulary, puzzle books, etc). We hope that by going to the International School, the pressure will be taken off her to speak in French and that she will do it naturally when the time is right for her.