They have a soft start with first one hour with the parents on Thursday followed by one hour without the parents on Friday. 
He liked even more than we took a double decker bus to get there.
The first hour went well. Oskar played in the classroom pretty much not caring about anything else than the toys. I talked to the teacher, the assistant teacher and the English teacher to clarify a few points as well as get to know them. The default language for the teacher is French which makes things a bit harder for Wolfram to follow but I did my best to translate.
We told Oskar he was changing school and he was quite excited about the idea to go to the big school as we described it to him. He also liked the new uniform.
The second day was a bit different. When he understood that we would leave him there alone he was not happy. Teacher had to take him from me and we walked away from a crying Oskar. He was the only one really crying and making a scene. We knew it would be difficult but it doesn't make it easier to let go with a smile when your child is crying as if you were abandoning him. This was the third time for me to do so and it wasn't easier. But we were strong and left.
It took half an hour for Oskar to join the rest of the class. It might have been faster if the teachers had left him alone at the beginning so he would calm down by himself instead of talking to him. But as the teacher said, they need to learn how he functions and what's important is that he played with the rest of the class in the end.
Until then, I have to fill in all the paperwork. I had forgotten how much French administration likes paperwork.
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