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Can anyone tell me more about this school?
In its website, I cannot even see how the school looks like!

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Hong Kong Academy is moving to Sai Kung next year. So if you enroll your child for the next academic year, it'd mean that s/he will be going to school in Sai Kung. Regarding the new campus in Sai Kung, only school administrative staff and teachers have seen it (and it's not even finished yet). But it's really close to the beach, as well as a community swimming pool as far as I know. The facilities will be awesome as well ("even better than CDNIS" as one of the senior teachers commented) and most of the things will be new (e.g. lab equipments are all newly bought for the new campus).

Let me know if you have other questions about the school. I'm a student from HKA.

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But the debenture is quite expensive....

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Thank you Arielle. What is your comment about the school? Any particular country's curriculum the school is using? Any Mandarin taught? Thank you.

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I joined the school around 2 years ago and a big reason for that is the extremely friendly atmosphere. All interested parents/+ students are required to take the school tour (once a month) and I was really surprised that when I asked the high school principal questions, he already knew my name and situation (that was the first time we ever talked, so clearly he'd done his "homework") It just showed me that the school does care. HKA is a school that stresses much on its community support. Parents are very supportive of school events. School staff and teachers are really caring as well. Comparing to the other schools I attended, I feel like HKA is more "humane", in terms of how friendly and warm everyone is. And that's why i chose to go there.

The school is a full IB school, so it follows the IB curriculum throughout all school years instead a particular country's curriculum. Despite that, I think the school is more American due to the fact that (in high school) the principal is American, and the dominant nationality of students is American as well. I don't know much about the other sections (early childhood, primary and middle school), but the primary section principal is an American lady so you can imagine. Sometimes they incorporate some practices in American schools into the school's curriculum or general rules, but at the same time, our principal also stresses that HKA is an international school and he doesn't wish to make it "too American".

And yes, Mandarin's taught (probably at all grade levels except IB DP where students can opt to NOT take Mandarin) I don't know how old your child is but when I do my own studies at the school library, I often see these children in early childhood/ primary section listening to Mandarin stories and they do seem to understand their Mandarin teacher's instructions and everything. I'm not sure if all classes in early childhood have an in-class Mandarin teacher, but in those that do, I saw that those Mandarin teachers speak no English to the children at all.

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May I know which schools you've attended before studying at HKA?

How about IB score for this school?

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I started schooling at HKA after moving back to Hong Kong from Germany. The other IS I attended in HK was FIS.

The school's just had their first cohort of graduates last year. Last year's cohort was only 6 people so I wouldn't say it's a good indicator of the school's performance in IB DP. They have 100% pass rate though. There are 19 people in this year's cohort, of which, 16 of them are taking IB full DP. The highest predicted grade is 40.

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Thank you arielle for your reply.

Sounds like a good school.

I will probably attend the open house to learn more about it.

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arielle.w 發表於 13-3-21 09:25
I started schooling at HKA after moving back to Hong Kong from Germany. The other IS I attended in H ...

I'm curious what's the placement for the last cohort?

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Actually, my mistake - the highest predicted grade should be 42/45, including bonus points.

I don't know too much about last cohort's destinations after graduation. I believe at least two students took a gap year, one went back to his home country for compulsory military service, one ended up at NYU I believe, and at least one other went on studying in the US as well.

As for this year's cohort, university decisions are coming in. Most people applied to UK and US. A few applied to Canada and HK as well. A number got scholarships from the US schools. And recently, someone got into Durham.

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Thanks so much for your detailed explanation, arielle. You gave me much more confident on HKA, that's really useful comments...

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No problem :) Just ask anything if you still want to know more. I will answer what I can answer.

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No problem :) Just ask anything if you still want to know more. I will answe ...

the class sizes are very small. so not a lot of students in each class. we applied last september, but still haven't heard anything about interviews. i have given up.

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I've heard that the school doesn't conduct interviews in the conventional way but rather chooses by profile the child they think will best complement the class. So once your child fits the right "profile" they are looking for, they will call you for an interview.

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Mom2One 發表於 13-3-24 01:35
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I've heard that the school doesn't conduct interviews in the conventional wa ...

That's kind of true. But instead of saying they "conduct interviews" in an unconventional way, it's more like they "call for interviews" in an unconventional way. (which I'm pretty sure is exactly what you mean) I, myself, went through both an interview and admission test before I got admitted by the school. But yes, they don't randomly admit students. The school seeks to create classes with diversity. To be honest, HKA is probably the most "international" international school I know in Hong Kong. Students in each class are really culturally diverse and there isn't really any dominant cultural group (there are indeed a larger group of students from the US but they're spread in different grades and classes). In my grade, I think no more than 2 or 3 persons are actually from the same country. Classes at HKA are truly international, unlike some IS which have a dominant cultural group or nationality.
I guess there're good and bad things about it. The good thing is that we really learn to be understanding of each other's cultures and we hear a lot about what happens at another country a lot. But I guess the bad thing is that it hinders some great kids from getting admitted to the school just because the grade level they're applying to already has "enough of" their cultural background.

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Hi Arielle, what are the "criterias" that the principals/head of school are looking for in a kid when they admit them into HKA? Would you please share your experience?

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小冬姑發表於 13-4-23 11:30
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Hi Arielle, what are the "criterias" that the principals/head of school are l ...

Since I don't work at the admission office, I can't say for sure their criteria used to admit students. However, at the Open House that I attended, they did say that they try to create diversity within a class, and hence, admit students of diverse background. In other words, what they basically have is this thing called "quota". Whether it is a quota for nationality, race, ethnicity, etc, I don't know. I'd guess it is nationality though.
I believe my admission process was much simpler since currently in high school, the number of students in each grade is way lower than that of the middle/ primary school. In fact, there are only 19 students in my grade in total, including me. However, our nationalities don't really "overlap" in a sense. In addition to my passing of the admission tests with good results, I think I got in also because there is no one else in my grade who is of my nationality, or even race (there're only two Asian girls in my grade, and I'm one of them) The only overlapping nationalities with more than 2 students are Americans and Canadians, but they have very different backgrounds despite their nationality.

HKA is really international. It's not like some other schools that have some dominating nationalities/ ethnicities. But then I guess it also makes the admittance change more reliant on "luck" since you never know if the "quota" of your child's nationality is already "full".