RCHK 雜費多嗎？

Maoku

想請教一下各位RC家長，PYP除學費外，學校還有多少其他雜費？例如籌款之類？

Radiomama

籌款一定有，但無壓力的。雜費如中文書、練習簿、文具等，幾百元。
最貴是校車，可上網check;
school lunch around $26

MKS

How about swimming class / other sport class, musical instrument ? Many thank!

chapman媽

For year one, I deposited $1,500 in the student account and there was 100 odd dollars left at the end of year and the cost including swimming lesson, field trips and Chinese books and work books.  For year two so far is similar....for charity, it's flexible....

MKS

The cost is reasonable!

Maoku

Thanks radio mama and chapman ma valuable advice. Is swimming course included as part of the PYP that each student have to take?

chapman媽

Yes, they encourage all to take the swimming lessons except those with Med Cert.

Maoku

原帖由 chapman媽 於 12-03-04 發表
Yes, they encourage all to take the swimming lessons except those with Med Cert.

Thanks! Start from Year 1?  When will the lessons take place?  During PE class or after school?  How much each month?

chapman媽

Last year I recalled there was one lesson per week for 6 weeks, about $2 or 3xx.  This year, there will be 2 lessons per week for 6 weeks program is $440.  I think it's different for every grade.  All lessons take place during PE.

Radiomama

The swimming class for year one to year three is scheduled in Mar to Apr. My boy will take the class from this week! And it's during class period. Helper for changing clothes is allowed for year one & two but not for year three and above.

Maoku

Really thanks for sharing of the first hand  information.

acdad

Hi folks,

How do you think about the cost being charged for the EOTC activities?

And do you know some ECA activites held by outside orgs ,including ESF Sports, are being charged at appx $200/sessions per hour?

Certainly, there are some sports teams activities (ISSFHK)  in RC which would  only last for 2 months in each acadmaic  year.

acdad

Annie123 發表於 12-3-8 13:21
(1)  Costs for EOTC is not cheap. But looks like similar programs elsewhere charge more or less the  ...

1. Cost of EOTC ranges from $3800 - $4800 for Year 5- 9 for various locations in HK, costs from 11k- $13k for year 10 going to locatoins in China, Thailand and Malaysia

2.  ECA - there are 4 ECAs being offered in season 3 to PYP students:  rounders, cricket and event management for year 5/6 students only, free but  with limited spaces, SNAG golf provided by outside providers for year 3-6 at $1225/7 one hour sessons, avg $175/hour, 8-16 spaces.

3.  ESF Sports - occupied most of the prime time , Friday after school and Sat,  especially the  secondary gym and swimming pool . Classes charged at $200/hour session

4. ISSFHK - it has 3 seasons/school year which  provides team competitions for 4-5 sports each , last only for 2 months. Most sport teams lack of continuity when the season is over unless supported by passionate coaches or teachers.

acdad

Annie123 發表於 12-3-9 11:41
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1, EOTC : It is a mandatory program and Year 4 - Year 10 students have to take that no matter parents judge that worth or not. But one thing that we can confirm regards the year 10 EOTC prgram is, a premium of over $7000 per student on top of airtkts and accommodation is being paid   to the service provider, APA, for a 6 days trip for a total of 47 students. The cost of the APA service portion is over 60% of the the total trip cost. and the EOTC cost of the year 10 is more than a month tuition of MYP. This has been confirmed by the school.

2.  ECA : I count activities being released by the school 's publication officially. http://www.renaissance.edu.hk/sites/renaissance/files/ECA-S3.pdf

Readers can check in the school news to verify. Certainly there are some on and off activities organized by entheastic parents and teachers.

3.  ESF Sports schedule in RC could be found in ESF sports website. http://www.esf.org.hk/esf_sports/general/schedule_T3.asp

No need to argue. I consider Friday after school and Sat as prime time for students after school activities. Pac rooftop, secondary gym, swimming pool, primary gym , even outside basket court are occupied by ESF Sports on Friday afterschool.  BTW, the swimming pool is occupied by ESF Sports Mon, Wed and Friday after 3:30pm.

4. ISSFHK - http://issf.hk/sports competition sports are bascially for MYP students  and each sports only last for 2 months. "All teams practice regularly " is a misleading statement as my girl has been in one of  the "Black kite" team for last 4 years. Team players are recruited 2 weeks prior to competition  starts. Practice  one week before competition starts by volunteering  teachers, some  only with limited coaching knowledge in that sport.


However, I beleive  the school mgt is trying to make improvement on each of the above areas via the help of entheastic parents and teachers. We have to identify and admitt areas need to be focus before improvement and corrective actions could be made.

Have a good weekend!

acdad

Annie123 發表於 12-3-9 13:32
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Different parents have different expection from the school and there is always rooms for improvement to make our children learning experience in RC a better one. Some would like to stay quiet or act as a guardian for the school but others would like to make  constructive suggestions to fine tune the system, both helps.

acdad

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Have a good weekend, happy parent!