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Bangkok, Thailand · est. 2013 · Private
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Siam Singapore International School is a trilingual school in central Bangkok, on Phetchaburi Road by the Ratchathewi and Phaya Thai skytrain stations. It has been running since 2013 as Bangkok's first trilingual international demonstration school under the royal patronage of Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University, and it is managed by RVi Academy. Children are taken from twelve months and carried through to IGCSE: the primary school runs six years on the Singapore programme and ends with the iPSLE examination of the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board, while the secondary school has two blocks - Pre-IGCSE in the first and second years and IGCSE in the third and fourth, as an eighteen-month programme. Lessons are taught in English, Thai and Chinese, and language classes are led by native speakers; in the youngest group, eight to ten little ones have a native-speaker teacher, an assistant and a nanny. After lessons, from a quarter past three to four, there are clubs - taekwondo, Rubik's cube, robotics, ballet, swimming and computing - and in June and July a summer school is open. The school does not name its fees, its number of pupils or its examination results on the site.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE
Admits from
1 year · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English, Thai, Chinese
About the fees The school has no fees section at all: the only sum named on the site is the application processing fee - 1,000 baht. Payment is described in general terms: tuition and charges are to be paid, and once payment has been made the admissions office issues the family an invoice and a form.
Admissions Admission runs all year round ("Enrollment Period: Year-round"). The order is this: an enquiry and a campus visit, then an entrance test for applicants to the first year of primary school and above. For the test the school asks for a completed application form, a health certificate, a copy of the latest report card and a certificate of conduct, and for payment of 1,000 baht for processing. The outcome and the offer of a place are reported within a week. Thai pupils additionally hand in four photographs, a copy of the birth certificate and a copy of the house registration book; foreign pupils four photographs, a copy of the passport and copies of the previous and the current visa; parents are asked for a copy of a Thai identity card or passport and one photograph each. Meetings with the admissions office and campus visits are by appointment only; the school holds open days twice a year.
Stages and year groups Grades Prenursery - Secondary 4 (IGCSE). The "Quick Facts" page gives "Grades: Prenursery to IGCSE", and the age table gives Prenursery, Nursery 1 and 2, Kindergarten 1 and 2, Primary 1 - Primary 6, Secondary 1 - Secondary 2, and IGCSE as an eighteen-month programme across Secondary 3 and 4. Separately the school keeps GED preparation as a route to a certificate for those who did not finish secondary school.
Address 153 Phetchaburi Road, Thung Phayathai, Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10400
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓CateringA canteen with a salad bar and strict rules for preparing food: "Having a salad bar and strict food preparation guidelines ensures that the dietary requirements of each child is being met during lunchtime". The school posts the menu a month ahead.
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The campus stands at a single address on Phetchaburi Road in the Ratchathewi district, and the nearest skytrain stations are Ratchathewi and Phaya Thai. The school shows visitors round the campus and holds an open day twice a year, including a virtual one. What the school does not have: The school has no list of facilities: the "Campus Tour" page opens with no content, and the site names neither a library, nor laboratories, nor sports facilities. Physical education the school describes in words, including climbing, taekwondo and cookery.
Clubs and activities: Taekwondo · Rubik's cube · Robotics · Ballet · Swimming · Computing
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The summer school runs in June and July: "Timeline: 1st semester: August to December; 2nd semester: January to May; Summer school: June to July". In a separate post the school announced a summer school for preschoolers. It names neither a programme nor a price for the camp.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
✓Teachers listed by namepublished
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: Two of the leadership are named: Ms. Christina Chan, Principal, and Dr. Nantarat Funchien, School Director.
The school writes that all language classes are led by native speakers with high qualifications and experience, and that there are few pupils to a teacher: this is how the school holds its standard and its attention to each child, and it builds its programmes around the needs of the child. It gives no figures. In the youngest group the make-up is set out exactly: 8 to 10 children, with a native-speaker teacher, a teaching assistant and a nanny. The recruitment page lists the school's subject specialists: Chinese, Thai, English, mathematics, science (integrated science, physics, biology, chemistry), business, economics.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data90 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data76 Value for money (6%) scored at the median65 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
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