Government & Education Royal Oaks International School

Hi,
Still looking at the schools in the Dumaguete area in consideration of my 11 year old daughter. I have some questions about Royal Oaks International School.
How much emphasis do they place on the Filipino dialect? My daughter does not yet speak it, she only knows a few words and the last private school we had her in here in Manila, there were 2 classes taught solely in Tagalog and then she had to attend 2 hours after school each day in Tagalog tutoring. Anyway, long story short, she became physically ill from the stress of moving here and being so far behind in the language that we had to take her out and have been home schooling her using an American home-schooling program. We really want to get her back into a structured school program, but not at the expense of her becoming ill again.
Also, are the fees at Royal Oaks in line with the other private schools....seems like I have seen most of them being in the 20k range?
If anyone has any suggestions as far as schools that work well with English-speaking students, I am open to them. I know she needs to learn the language, but, she is very far behind and it is going to take some time.
Thanks!!
Marie

 

My understanding is that Philippine government accreditation requires schools to teach Filipino language (a variation of Tagalog) and a certain amount of Philippine history/civics, etc. So, I would think you would encounter at least that much at any school.

I can't answer any questions about Royal Oaks, but I can list some other schools you may like to consider:

Holy Cross (Chinese sponsored)
Silliman (affiliated with SU; Protestant)
St. Louis School - Don Bosco (Catholic, co-educational)
Cittadini (Catholic, girls-only)
Foundation (affiliated with FU; non-sectarian)

 

royal oaks international school is nice and friendly teacher. my daughter studying t


my daughter studying at royal oaks shes a kinder 1 and transfery frm manila. the school staff are nice, friendly and specialy teacher kitche the teacher of my daughter shes realy nice . my daughter cannot speak good english when we are at manila, but now she can speak english the school teach a english coz almost student there is foregner. a litle bit expensive but its okey as long we are satisfied.

tnx and god bless

 

Thank you for the info, sweet and sour!!

 

Guru I think you have been mislead about Cittidini It is a co-ed school but taught by Catholic Nuns. My Son and 2 of my Daughters went there.

 

Thanks for that clarification. I must've misunderstood...so, Don Bosco is run by Brothers and Cittadini by Sisters? But, they basically share the same campus?

You'd think the boys order and the girls order would get along better. Hehehe. Sorry, I didn't go to Catholic school so it's all a bit gray for me.

I know you have alot of experience with the private schools of DGT...can you recommend any one over the others?

P.S. I would edit my error out of the previous post, but I don't think it is possible after a certain period of time?...

 

Find another school

I would recommend you to find another school for your daughter. I put my son in that school for two years and summer time...he is now in kindergarten, my son is academically good but their only concern is he wont speak, so they are recommending him to be in kinder two this coming june.

I dont even understand why my son wont talk to them, when he speaks to everybody. He is very fluent in english and knows how write and read.

They are not very helpful and when you caled them nobody will answer the phone and they will dance around...

I am very concerned and most of our friends, other nationalities did not recommend this school to us. They said they tried it for a year and then transfer their children.

I dont want that things would happen again to anybody. Better aware than being sorry later.

Thank you.

 

Our boys finally graduated from Silliman HS, after years of continual bullying and thefts, and Professor Oblong's admonition to parents who complained: "We didn't tell you to drag your student here."

We did some serious searching and interviewing before moving our 10 years old daughter. After a morning visit to Simon Montessori our girl begged us to never make her go back to Silliman again. Rather than regimentation and rote learning they promote independence and initiative. A large percentage of students are foreigners and tuition runs about P40K per year.

Simon is now moving from the Valencia road to a new location close to NORSU.

You may have noticed that there is no clamor here of parents demanding their children be taught Tagalog (alias 'National Language') The current colonizers of the country, Imperial Manila, don't allow children here to learn to read and write their own language in the schools. Silliman charged us an additional P1000 a month for an after-school class which gurantees your child won't flunk. We've had no such problem at Simon.

The national Department of Education still manages to impose itself, last month all schools had to conduct art projects using popsicle sticks, every store in town was sold out.