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tvoincy

Thanks!

Is that mean I can only apply to Bradbury School only? I learnt that some parents can apply more then 1 schools in some catchment zone, am I right?  

原帖由 popolung 於 09-2-3 20:19 發表
Bradury School, see their website:

http://www.esf.edu.hk/index.aspx?nodeID=970&langNo=1

Zone:
From Stanley Village and Chung Hom Kok to Repulse Bay Road through Repulse Bay and Deepwater Bay to the  ...

popolung

原帖由 tvoincy 於 09-2-3 21:31 發表
Thanks!

Is that mean I can only apply to Bradbury School only? I learnt that some parents can apply more then 1 schools in some catchment zone, am I right?  

No, you have to appy via ESF Center anyway and they will send you to relevant ESF school according to your placement zone.

tvoincy

原帖由 popolung 於 09-2-3 21:46 發表


No, you have to appy via ESF Center anyway and they will send you to relevant ESF school according to your placement zone.

Oh...I see.

Many thanks.

oooray

原帖由 TigerB 於 09-4-2 00:06 發表
About catchment zone, may I ask what zone am I in, I am living in Tsuen Wan.  How many ESF primay can I apply at a time?

better check at www.esf.edu.hk, u will find the answer.if not clear enough, simply send an email to particular school to reconfirm. They will  give u a very vivid answer. BTW, only one at time and even u do not require to choose in the application form during central application. They will assign to you in accordance with your home address.

popolung

原帖由 TigerB 於 09-4-2 00:06 發表
About catchment zone, may I ask what zone am I in, I am living in Tsuen Wan.  How many ESF primay can I apply at a time?

For normal ESF should be SJS

http://www.esf.edu.hk/index.aspx?nodeID=979&langNo=1

and you can apply RC (PIS) too:

http://www.renaissance.edu.hk/

as other parents the ESF Center will allocate you to which school anyway (except for RC / DC application)

WYmom

原帖由 popolung 於 09-4-2 02:42 發表


For normal ESF should be SJS

http://www.esf.edu.hk/index.aspx?nodeID=979&langNo=1

No.  Tsuen Wan zone is under BHS.

oooray

Haha...that's why i suggest asking individual ESF schools directly for a 100% correct answer.
Sometimes I send email to ESF schools and they always provide detailed and informative answer promptly, even I am just an "potential applicant".

popolung

原帖由 oooray 於 09-4-2 09:09 發表
Haha...that's why i suggest asking individual ESF schools directly for a 100% correct answer.
Sometimes I send email to ESF schools and they always provide detailed and informative answer promptly, e ...

Haha, I demonstrate a bad example, and yes, please call ESF Center.

oooray

原帖由 popolung 於 09-4-2 09:46 發表


Haha, I demonstrate a bad example, and yes, please call ESF Center.

no problem. Practice makes Perfect.

popolung

原帖由 oooray 於 09-4-2 11:25 發表

no problem. Practice makes Perfect.

Ha Ha I agree!

oooray

原帖由 TigerB 於 09-4-2 23:05 發表
Thanks everyone for answering my question, I will contact the school and ask about my catchment zone.

But I do have one  more question about ESF... about RC, is it an ESF school, what is the real dif ...

sorry for being directed...I notice that u have a profound interest in IS.
I think most of your answers can be found from ESF website and RC website (popolung has already mentioned some links in previous posts). Try to spend a few hours to go through information there and u can pretend to be an "expert" (like me...haha).
Come back again to discuss after doing homework

oooray

from my limited knowledge, i can point out a few differences between PIS (RC) and ESF schools:tuition fee:RC is higher coz RC receive one time government subsidize on land (and premise?).;
admission criteria are different. PIS are supposed to admit 70% children whose parents have HKID; 
RC is a big school for Year 1 to 12 : through train; 
RC has no catchment area. everybody lives in everywhere in HK can apply...
Chinese : RC seems stronger but don't expect too much..it is a english teaching school....

oooray

原帖由 TigerB 於 09-4-3 00:14 發表
oooray, thank you very much!!!

there are still a lot to explore from their websites and this forum...read more and then u can be more specific in asking questions here.
good luck!

popolung

Normal ESF schools receive a subsidy from the Hong Kong Government to provide an education for English speaking children who can not access the local system. So they have the Catergory system in order to give priority to those kids who can only speak English to study in noraml ESF school first.

As part of the HKSAR Government's strategy to provide parents with greater choice for their children's schooling, the Private Independent School initiative was introduced. A total of 10 sites were chosen for this initiative with the sites being allocated to providers following a competitive process. ESF was allocated two sites for RC & DC.

For the Private Independent Schools, the HKSAR Government provides a capital grant for construction costs equivalent to the cost of a new, local standard school. In addition to this, ESF has added to the capital grant to provide a higher standard of accommodation and provide additional specialist facilities.

There is no recurrent annual grant being provided to the new school by the HKSAR Government, i.e. student places are not ‘sub-vented' in the way that other ESF schools are. As a result, RC & DC are operated by ESF Educational Services Limited, a part of ESF.

And this can explain why their school fee are higher. And to make itself profitable (or at least break-even), you can see RC (I don't know about DC) has quite a lot of fund raising program carrying via out the year.

But then, they don't need to stricly follow the Category system, so this is why they can take more Chinese Kids as long as they are capable to study in ESF, and this also explained why they interview so many applicants at a time instead of going for Cat 1 first then Cat 2. You can go to RC or DC website and see they never mention anything about the Cat 1 / Cat 2 in their website.

http://www.discovery.edu.hk/content.php?contentid=22

http://www.renaissance.edu.hk/content.php?contentid=97

While normal ESF will focus on using English as the medium of teaching, see what RC said in ESF website:

http://www.esf.edu.hk/index.aspx?nodeID=978&langNo=1

Although the College will use English as the medium for teaching and learning, the curriculum will have a very strong emphasis on Chinese language and culture. All students will study Putonghua and Standard Chinese.

So this explain why parents normally will see RC has spent more efforts in teaching Chinese, but other ESF is catching up now, as they are also moving to IB in full speed.

And see what DC said:

http://www.discovery.edu.hk/content.php?contentid=22

There will be provision for Chinese for native speakers (CNL) and for Chinese as a foreign language (CFL), including ab initio courses. All successful applicants will  need to demonstrate an aptitude for language learning.

Good Night.

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yenki

原帖由 tvoincy 於 09-2-3 19:56 發表
Does anyone can tell me whether South Horizon is the catchment zone of Kennedy School or Bradury School?

Thanks.

Kennedy School.