Lantau International School

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Moving to HK and looking for a school can be daunting, particularly if you are working in a short timescale. Choosing the right school for you and your child depends on many factors, geographical, financial, but also, of course, educational. Key to this decision is the effect of your child’s primary education on their secondary school and even college or university enrollment chances. We all want the best for our children: we want them to be happy as children and successful as adults. At LIS, we put children first, with the greenest environment any school in HK has to offer combined with all the most recent technology in the classrooms, a British curriculum, highly qualified teachers, and small classes that maximize student-to-teacher contact. We are proud to have one of the highest enrollment rates in the secondary school of choice. A number of our former students have been so happy with their academic experience here that they have enrolled children of their own at LIS.
If you are relocating to Hong Kong, you should consider living in beautiful Lantau. With excellent transport links to Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, and with the airport within easy reach, Lantau is the perfect location. With Disneyland, the Big Buddha, and the Ngong Ping cable car all situated on Lantau, it’s a great place to unwind. There are outlet shopping malls in Tung Chung, cafes, restaurants and a golf course in Discovery Bay, and wonderful beaches in South Lantau. All these areas have large expatriate communities which LIS serves, and we provide school buses to all our campuses.
L.I.S. provides schooling in the English language from Reception Class to Primary Six. The curriculum follows the requirements of the British National Curriculum and the guidelines of the SATS examination system. The tests are administered in the first two weeks of May every year.
According to the British Curriculum, children must be in reception class when turning 4 years old during the school year and turning 5 years old when joining Primary One.
As Hong Kong is such a diverse city, and as we truly are an international school with both children and teachers coming from all over the world, the British National Curriculum is adapted so that it applies to all of our pupils.
Among the international schools of Hong Kong, L.I.S. provides the highest ratio of teachers per child, with no class exceeding 22 children in lower primary and 24 children in upper primary.
Topic works focus on local history, local geography, and the traditional culture of the Hong Kong people. These areas of study are connected to broader topics in European and North American history, geography, and culture.
World religions are taught to promote understanding, tolerance, and the appreciation of the rich collective histories and cultures of this part of the world.
L.I.S. provides training in Mandarin starting from Reception. Some of our pupils are blessed to be bilingual if not trilingual at a very early age.
L.I.S. takes full advantage of its green surroundings with outdoor education programs (such as camping trips, PE on the beach, school hikes, outdoor nature lessons, and sometimes unexpected encounters with the rich wild fauna of Lantau South).
L.I.S. also provides after-school hours non-compulsory extracurricular clubs (soccer, drama, choir, dance, cookery, basketball, etc…).

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