My family are moving to Dumaguete next year so will be looking for a suitable school for my 11 year old son. He had a bad experience last time we were over here when we lived in Bayawan. He went to St Augustine Acadamy for 3 months but the lessons were not done in English. I ended up teaching him myself as best I could. Is there a school you could recommend in Dumaguete where English is used for the lessons. He will be in grade 6 next year.
All schools in Dumaguete teach in English EXCEPT Filipino Subjects, Grade 6 try West City Elementary (It is a good school) or Pay and go to Don Bosco but it really does depend where you live, as to what school you choose
You must be careful with the English being taught in the schools. The teachers themselves do not (were never taught properly) speak or know proper English themselves. My daughter was always coming home telling us how her English teacher was always mispronouncing and misspelling words. I told her that as long as they didn't expect her to say the words like they were, then just to let it go. I do recall a trip we had to make to the school to discuss a spelling test with the English teacher, which ended up with her apologizing to my very-well-English-speaking Filipino husband. They were teaching misspellings of some words that we could not accept or overlook, and my daughter was missing them on the tests. Just read over your child's homework and do your due diligence.
Yes I wholeheartedly agree with you but I tend tink the OP was meaning lessons spoken in English not actual learning of English
Any suggestions for schools for Grade 10 - probably private as I am shocked by the standards in State schools. I am presently thinking about St Paul's or Silliman and would like any feedback anyone is able to provide about those two schools, but would also be interested to hear opinions on other schools in Dumaguete City (including State ones if there are any good ones!).
I am happy with our 2 1/2 years at Don Bosco, although my son is not in high school. They have a new building for their grades 11-12. Also, I have heard Dumaguete Science School is very good, public but with admission tests to apply.
My step-daughter went to Don Bosco. By the time she graduated grade 10 her written english was better than mine. The math taught in grade 10 seemed to be more or less on par with what you would get in Canada. From what I saw Don Bosco was not particularly strong on the singing and dancing aspect of education. There are religion classes, she was mostly un-affected by those. One thing that I liked was that she had a daily diary which were brief notes about her school day. If she did something wrong like talking in class, late for class, homework not done or was absent, then Mom had to sign the diary.
Thanks to all for their helpful replies. My concern was only about English being spoken during the lessons. Is there a strict enrollment requirement for foreign students as schools in Australia have a different way they grade students which Philippine schools do not accept. They are grade A - D depending on their performance for the yer, not a grading mark out of 100.
Don Bosco uses the 100 scale with top students receiving scores in the 90’s, equivilent to an A. Although classes are taught in English, students also learn to read and spell and are graded in Visayan and Tagalog in Kindergarden so not sure how that impacts a foreign high school student coming in without that backgound, a question for Admissions.
