French International School

happyfleet

jyk 發表於 17-11-2 20:16
Have you received anything about the interview yet? I have applied reception for my daughter too
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Interview is usually in Jan, before CNY.

bbanya

964000 發表於 17-11-1 19:43
At my time they never reply anything too on enquiry too. Then suddenly on one day I received a emai ...

I always heard that their English standard are good.  But will there be some French accent?

Also, how’s the parent’s involvement? Do they expect lots of participation from parents?  

bbanya

bbanya 發表於 17-11-5 23:43
I always heard that their English standard are good.  But will there be some French accent?

Also, ...

Also for the school fee,  Other then the school fee, how much extra spending is needed?  From their website, school fee is around $120k per year.  Just wonder how much is the actual spending each year?

964000

bbanya 發表於 17-11-5 23:43
I always heard that their English standard are good.  But will there be some French accent?

Also, ...

Lol, what do you mean by french accent? So german Swiss will pick up german accent and Korean IS is Korean accent?
Parental involvement is optional, my friend studying there told me she never joined parent activities. It’s up to you, if you are willing to mingle well with the expats parents will be fun for yourself too.

bbanya

964000 發表於 17-11-6 07:29
Lol, what do you mean by french accent? So german Swiss will pick up german accent and Korean IS is ...

Thanks for your reply.  It’s true that some kids studying in Singapore International have Singish. My colleague’s kid studied there and finally changed to another IS due to this reason.  I talked to the staffs from FIS admission office and found that the staffs there have strong French accent.  So I worry the kids follow this kind of accent too.

964000

bbanya 發表於 17-11-6 09:59
Thanks for your reply.  It’s true that some kids studying in Singapore International have Singish. ...

Really I never thought of this, but the few kids I knew I didn’t found that they have french accents.

1992英语baby

回覆 bbanya 的帖子

French accent is a plus, just my 2 cents

dem0cracy

I went to the FIS Christmas Fair last year. Some of the students (probably lower secondary from their appearance) who were selling stuff at the booths had heavy French accent and weren't particularly fluent in English. But they are possibly from the French stream.

canteen31

1992英语baby 發表於 17-11-6 13:29
回覆 bbanya 的帖子

French accent is a plus, just my 2 cents

Hahahaha.... I think the french accent is cute

bbanya

dem0cracy 發表於 17-11-6 15:01
I went to the FIS Christmas Fair last year. Some of the students (probably lower secondary from thei ...

Probably they are French.  Do you see lots of Hk/Chinese kids?

dem0cracy

I hardly saw any Asian faces among the volunteers.

Also, I took a quick glance at the Reception class name list when passing by the classroom during a recent school tour at the Jardine's Lookout campus. I didn't see any Chinese last name.

964000

bbanya 發表於 17-11-6 15:56
Probably they are French.  Do you see lots of Hk/Chinese kids?

For Jardine lookout campus, mostly foreigners / mix , some Chinese. Not sure will it be changed after moving to TKO. But even for NAIS and kellet in Kowloon east can still maintain a high proportion of foreigners, so I think probably not a big problem.

Mrspan

Want to know the expenses other than tuition fee too..
also are there very few ECAs for the students?

964000

dem0cracy 發表於 17-11-6 15:01
I went to the FIS Christmas Fair last year. Some of the students (probably lower secondary from thei ...

I think they probably came from french families. For our kids I would more worry they got canton accents than french accents lol. Maybe the kids with Singlish accents came from Sing family too. That’s why I try not to speak too much English with my child now .

happyfleet

Mrspan 發表於 17-11-6 16:46
Want to know the expenses other than tuition fee too..
also are there very few ECAs for the student ...

there are optional expenses like bus fee and canteen fee. and refundable debenture of 90k.

happyfleet

dem0cracy 發表於 17-11-6 16:08
I hardly saw any Asian faces among the volunteers.

Also, I took a quick glance at the Reception cl ...

there are about 1/4 chinese.

Mrspan

happyfleet 發表於 17-11-6 20:06
there are optional expenses like bus fee and canteen fee. and refundable debenture of 90k.

Thx happy feet. How abt ECAs? I saw from another post that there are not many ECAs (or in-School ECAs).. and not many inter-school activities with other IS so FIS is very secretive to other IS.

happyfleet

bbanya 發表於 17-11-6 15:56
Probably they are French.  Do you see lots of Hk/Chinese kids?

This year Christmas Fair will be on Dec 2, 10am to 5pm.

happyfleet

Mrspan 發表於 17-11-6 20:51
Thx happy feet. How abt ECAs? I saw from another post that there are not many ECAs (or in-School EC ...

Not many for lower primary, around 3. Need to arrange own pick up after ECA

Mrspan

happyfleet 發表於 17-11-6 21:05
This year Christmas Fair will be on Dec 2, 10am to 5pm.

Open to public ?