Hi there, I recently moved to Malta with my partner and 2 children, 20 months and 3 and a half years old. As we will be both working soon we need to find schools for our children but the more I look the more I am confused. Regarding childcare I understood that if both parents work there are centers that are registered with the free scheme for working parents. Regarding kindergarten instead I thought it would be free but I now understand (and please correct me if I am wrong) that free schools are either state schools or religious. My kids speak English and Italian and I don't want them to go to a school where lessons are thought in Maltese and where the majority of children are Maltese because I am concerned they would end up being outcasts. I also don't want them to go to a religious schools. I have been looking at independent schools thinking they would all be schools where the main language is English and there would be no religion but that doesn't seem to be the case as independant is mostly another way of calling private schools which in many cases are religious? Am I right? That doesn't seem to be an option of a school which is free, not religious and in English. Thank you for any advice/reply. Have a great day!