Kingston vs Harrow Int'l school

yokada

My daughter currently studies in Kingston and she loves the school so much. However, Harrow is a famous school internationally. How will u choose?

readymama

Harrow has high discipline on students. My couple of colleaques sent their kids from CKY and CIS to Harrow , one's even living in HK Island side and reason is her boy is staying in boarding house. That save her money from sending her boy to UK but experience the UK education system in HK. Harrow has restriction of 50% of its students , after Y6, need to live in the school during weekday and only go home during weekend.  

tai2cat

Who said the student mix is 70% (mainlander) and 30% (local)??  Where this information came from??  

I personally attended the school tour, I saw a large range of nationalities at the school.  The ratio of westerners seems to be a lot higher than many other international school (i.e ISF, Yew Chung, CIS).  There are some mainlanders but which IS has not???

A friend mine who worked at Harrow told me 70% of their student are holding foreign countries passports (with valid visas to stay in HK, not including China passport) and the remaining 30% local student.

clubmed

原帖由 fanfanbb 於 14-03-30 發表
May I ask why you prefer Harrows over Kingston other than "internationally"? Harrows has never been  ...

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fanfanbb

May I ask why you prefer Harrows over Kingston other than "internationally"? Harrows has never been my cup of tea, first is the location and second too many mainlanders.

yokada

Can u share any tips for preparing the CDNIS interview? Which areas need to be trained for interview?

yokada

I just got offer from Harrow. Still struglling coz of the location. Happy to know that you got offers from all the schools you applied for. I'll be having interview from CDNIS next year. Just want to know how much chinese are there in CDNIS? Any Chinese class every day for Reception? For how many hours? Sorry for so many questions coz I want my daughter to study in the int'l school with Chinese....

jolalee

yokada 發表於 14-3-17 20:56
I also applied two years ago. But I'm happy to hear that u got good offers from some through train s ...

Apologies, somehow i didn't see any notification on this thread and noticed both your questions only now:

I got offers from all three schools i listed above. In the end it's an emotional battle between IMS & CDNIS. CDNIS always been my top choice even before my boy was born, but after being in Montessori for 2.5 years (since age 1) we are deeply in love with the teaching method. In the end we bowed to reality and chose CDNIS.


You applied two years ago as well to Harrow? Have you received as interview yet? How old is your child now?

jolalee

Mamamu1126 發表於 14-3-17 20:52
Can u tell me which through train international school u applied for

Apologies, somehow i didn't see any notification on this thread and noticed both your questions only now:

My child is already in K1 and the ESF system (as a back up), so we only apply for 3 schools this year--
IMS - International Montessori School
ICS - International Christian School
CDNIS - Canadian International School

We want to apply for CIS & HKIS as well, but he is not old enough this year (born Nov). Since he has offer this year already from my top choice, we will only try for CIS next year (my husband's top choice), but no high hopes as the low rate of success is legendary.

yokada

I also applied two years ago. But I'm happy to hear that u got good offers from some through train schools.  Do u mind to share which through trains schools that u got offers and what is your final decision?

Mamamu1126

Can u tell me which through train international school u applied for

jolalee

Have you got an offer into Harrow? We applied two years ago and still haven't even received an interview, but we have 3 offers from other good through-train International schools already...