We are moving to Quito for a year with kids aged 10 and 8. Our desire it to have a fairly immersive experience that both opens their eyes to other cultures as well as gives them a love of the world and a desire to explore more nations later in life (ie not too overwhelming or intense as the life long love is really what we are striving for).
With this in mind, my thoughts are that a bilingual is the right answer so they get both language exposure as well as some confidence in being understood in English and not being too overwhelmed and defeated in not being able to communicate properly in any subject. (Their Spanish will still be at a very basic level when they arrive).
I know that the British School Colegio offers a strong bilingual program, but they seem hard to get into and not very responsive to someone just looking at a year's education. Academia Cotopaxi has been very responsive but seems much more expensive and not necessarily the bilingual experience we are looking for, even if it is very globally international which has its merits too.
Please let me know if you can recommend bilingual schools in the Quito area. We will base where we live around which area the school is so we can develop a local community more easily.