ESF abacus k1 offer

gragragra

anyone has abacus k1 offer?

Mrs_Totoro

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My daughter has pm bilingual offer. How about you?

gragragra

me too! my daughter is in pm bilingual too.

gragragra

do you wanna start a group and keep contact ? pls PM me. Many thanks.

sabsab122

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did u opt for billingual? Or the school just offered u billingual? Is debenture purchasing compulsory or optional?
Many thx!

gragragra

we are not debenture holder and we did state our preference on the bilingual class. lucky enough to get into the school and we are very happy

sabsab122

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Congratulations! How’s your child’s English level? Beginner or intermediate/ native?
Does foreign passport help? I’ve heard that ESF schools always hv 70% locals (unlike other IS, which is the other way round) is that true?
Hv u visited the school yet? How’s the student mix?

How much is the capital enrolment fee or (建校費）? It doesn’t say on their website)

Thx

gragragra

my child’s english is more on inter mediate to native level. Yes, we do have foreign passport, guess it helps us to get into the play visit. student mix wise, i think abacus has a good balance of local and non local (guess part of the reason is contributed by its location)

we dont have the pay any capital levy yet, what i understand that is, it is necessary starting from grade 1, but the amount is considered very reasonable when comparing to other IS.

tamwong

sabsab122 發表於 20-2-22 07:52
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Congratulations! How’s your child’s English level? Beginner or intermediate ...

FYI

ESF Schools are required to have at least 70% of all students hold a foreign passport (passports other than HKSAR or BNO). PIS Schools (Discovery College and Renaissance College) are required to have at least 70% of all students hold Hong Kong permanent residency status.

貝珠

tamwong 發表於 20-2-22 08:51
FYI

ESF Schools are required to have at least 70% of all students hold a foreign passport (passpo ...

Have a school visit , there are just around 4 ( including mix ) foreign students in a class (24 students) in Wu Kai sha or Tsing yi campus. Same in sjs, beacon hill.

A lot of hk families with foreign passport nowadays, and I think Esf also define 內地護照as foreign passport

tamwong

貝珠 發表於 20-2-22 09:33
Have a school visit , there are just around 4 ( including mix ) foreign students in a class (24 stu ...

yes that's true... they only counts what kind of passport they hold.. not their race

that basically applied to all international school .. and yes surprisingly they count PRC passport as foreign passport...  

貝珠

tamwong 發表於 20-2-22 09:37
yes that's true... they only counts what kind of passport they hold.. not their race

that basicall ...

But you won’t see many Chinese faces in fis(hk island ) , nais, Australian IS, kellet.

gragragra

we went to nais for school tour, assessment and things too. there are quite a lot of chinese faces. but i guess at the end of the day, it is hk, so having a reasonable amount of chinese faces in class is “normal”.

as for fis- it is true that the chinese faces are relatively less than esf and nais.

SISian

For high Caucasian ratio IS, I can think of HKIS, CIS, FIS, GSIS, Kellet, HKA, CDNIS, Harbour, etc.

gragragra

Want to see if there is any other friends that accepted abacus offer?

pat1668pat

gragragra 發表於 20-2-22 15:03
we went to nais for school tour, assessment and things too. there are quite a lot of chinese faces.  ...

We went NAIS for assessment also, there are overall around 20 kids being assessed and there was only 1 Indian and the rest are either HK or Mainland Chinese, just wonder the actual student mix in the school, we applied the school tour but now being cancelled, no way to understand more in person. Hope the school can resume soon to discover that.

In their website saying 40 nationalities but don’t know if they are referring to the overall schools around the world or just HK?