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My son got admissions to both schools. Anyone can share some ideas and insights on which one should we choose? He is in Primary Year 2. Thanks!

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Congrats.

Surely GSIS as the academic result is outstanding

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Thanks. I heard GSIS is only half day, so little worried about where to put him in the afternoon.

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原帖由 Literocean 於 16-05-09 發表
Thanks. I heard GSIS is only half day, so little worried about where to put him in the afternoon.

how much is the school fee?

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原帖由 callmebabe 於 16-05-09 發表
how much is the school fee?

137,000 per year . A debenture of 475,000 shall be purchased at the time of accepting the offer

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Literocean 發表於 16-5-9 18:43
Thanks. I heard GSIS is only half day, so little worried about where to put him in the afternoon.

Half day is a good thing. The best education systems usually has about 20 school hours per week. Kids should play (unstructured, uninterrupted) for at least 2 hours a day, then there's always after school activities (both in school and outside) that your child can join. Congratulations again for having such options.

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原帖由 jolalee 於 16-05-10 發表
Half day is a good thing. The best education systems usually has about 20 school hours per week. Kid ...

其實GSIS和其他國際學校學習模式有什麼分別？我記得website 提及自己同英國grammar school 一樣。現在有IB和A level .first cohort ib 39 (不是我最関心的）畢業生到Uk多，之後美加。我地defer 左assessment 到Year 1.想再了解多d.

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lui 發表於 16-5-10 08:03
其實GSIS和其他國際學校學習模式有什麼分別？我記得website 提及自己同英國grammar school 一樣。現在有IB ...

GSIS 首先是精英制，跟ESF All-inclusive 的取向是相反的，所以入得GSIS的孩子通常本身已經很聰明。他們做的是拔尖，把聰明的孩子再推上一層。

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GSIS 首先是精英制，跟ESF All-inclusive 的取向是相反的，所以入得GSIS的孩子通常本身已經很聰明。他們做 ...

我明白，他是眾多IS中academic 最好之一。在學習過程是活動相向嗎？我很想了解他們的教學模式。

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相比IB 較為disciplined, 以澳洲的算法，它是一所grammar school.

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Literocean 發表於 16-5-9 16:53
My son got admissions to both schools. Anyone can share some ideas and insights on which one should ...

IGCSE 2015

Kellett

GSIS

39%

60%

A*-A

73%

85.5%

A*-B

94%

A*-C

99%

98.8%

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Thanks a lot for all the nice reply and discussions. I just sent our answers to both schools and would like to give an update here as well. In the end, we chose Kellett.

In addition to asking advice at this forum, I also asked my friends, and friends' friends who have experience in either schools. No argue that both schools are very good. But I found that people with local background prefers GSIS, while expats love Kellett. In terms of education styles, Kellett is more nurturing, and GSIS is more competitive. Parents who have kids in both schools (luckily I found 3 of them) or kids transferred between both schools agreed that their kids are happy in both schools. By comparison, they think kids at GSIS are more independent, while the quality of English study is more advanced in Kellett (maybe because there are more expats kids in the school). Since we don't fill in much English at home and plan to send my son to the US for high school/college, English makes a good point for our case.

I heard both school lose a lot of students in secondary, so there's still chance if we decide to move him later.

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原帖由 Literocean 於 16-05-13 發表
Thanks a lot for all the nice reply and discussions. I just sent our answers to both schools and wou ...

Local parents prefer GSIS and expats prefer Kellet => you summarise all haha.
Actually both are good schools and you can't be wrong whichever you choose