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Latest post on 10 May 2014 - 10:12

Hello ladies,

My son has been offered a place in SEK, any reviews and insight for this school would be really helpful.

Many thanks in advance

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Latest post on 14 May 2014 - 13:17

Where can I see the school fees for SEK please? We are interested in Grade7/Year 8. We are also interested in Grade 9 but believe the grade is not available yet? Thx I too didn't find the fees on the website Did you try to ask the school directly?

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Latest post on 14 May 2014 - 13:17

Are school fees not on the website? I'd check the grades against ages as what they call grade 8 is different to UK grade 8. It's 42k for pre-school 4 and then goes up from there. It's one of the more expensive schools in Doha

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Latest post on 14 May 2014 - 12:47

Where can I see the school fees for SEK please? We are interested in Grade7/Year 8. We are also interested in Grade 9 but believe the grade is not available yet? Thx

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 14 May 2014 - 10:55

Eleanor it's better to call more than once on the same day I'll try to call as many times as I can, but I have to work too......looking for a school place in Doha has required a lot of energies, time and money, and it has been a frustrating experience. I would have preferred to concentrate these energies and time to my job or to my daughter or to myself or my friends, instead of doing 9 applications more complicated than if I had applied to Harvard or to the NASA, and then emails, phone calls, etc :-) there should be e better system....like, for instance, unifying the admission forms and the assessment procedures....

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Latest post on 14 May 2014 - 10:48

Hi, I have received a mail from DBS for an assesment for my son, they are opening a new branch in Alwakrah. Just incase u wanna apply Thank you very much, but as far as I understand, Al Wakrah is another town south from Doha, quite far from where we would live and work, because we would be in Education City, north-west od Doha, and live in a compound of Qatar Foundation near Sherborne School (which is full and which will never admit our daughter, not being her English mother tongue - we know it. there in also another school in Al Wakrah, GEM school, which I think it is good, but, as I said, too far :-(

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EW GURU

Latest post on 14 May 2014 - 09:28

There are loads of Qatari kids who speak fluent English. Just in general they are already in one of the international schools and therefore not likely to shift at the higher grades. Loads of Qatari kids who speak good English coming into school as well (because of English nursery). I thought it was 10% Qatari they had to take but I might be wrong - not an issue in my son's class because the vast majority of the class are ESL anyway (in fact I can only think of 4 who aren't including him). Apparently everyone who applied for pre-k3 who didn't get a place went on the waiting list. From what I saw roughly 2/3 of places went to siblings (assuming they aren't opening another class which I don't think they are).

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Latest post on 14 May 2014 - 02:59

Hi, I have received a mail from DBS for an assesment for my son, they are opening a new branch in Alwakrah. Just incase u wanna apply uote=Eleonor'>dear friends, thanks for the support. I tried to call SEK but with no result, they don't answer the phone. Maybe they are too busy. May I ask you which are the new two schools which are going to open in West Bay? thank you very much. Eleonor Any way with 2 new schools opening near by in September West Bay will be well served by schools.

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Latest post on 14 May 2014 - 01:28

Eleanor it's better to call more than once on the same day after I got the email my kids joined waiting pool I did that finally they answered Lalaa is your friends kids get the same answer they r on waiting pool about qatari kids they should accept 25 percent in every class even in high grades there r qatari students who can write read understand english who been to ASD qatar academy or so on but usually few change the school if u mean qatries who goes to independent schools I don't think that they will find a place in higher grades .

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Latest post on 13 May 2014 - 11:51

dear friends, thanks for the support. I tried to call SEK but with no result, they don't answer the phone. Maybe they are too busy. May I ask you which are the new two schools which are going to open in West Bay? thank you very much. Eleonor Any way with 2 new schools opening near by in September West Bay will be well served by schools.

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Latest post on 13 May 2014 - 09:21

I wish all the best to SEK school, it is warm and friendly for kids. I don't know if they learn much in the upper grades but the preschool is nice. It looks more empty than full this year but I am sure that it will grow progressively. Any way with 2 new schools opening near by in September West Bay will be well served by schools.

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Latest post on 13 May 2014 - 09:06

marykar - sorry but I think your information is out of date. My child went through the pre-k 3 assessment this year as did many others I know. My child is the only one I know who got a place - like all schools they are massively oversubscribed and the majority of places went to siblings. They certainly don't need the students more than the students need them. In later years they may still have space but not in early years. Last year was completely different because they needed fluent-English speaking students (although they were still full in early years at the start of term). For background, my son's class is roughly 40% Qatari, 40% Spanish-speaking and 20% other. That looks pretty representative of the rest of the school from what I can see (although the older years may be less Qatari because of the need for good English).

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Latest post on 13 May 2014 - 02:27

To be honest I didn't complete this school application even though they called me so I guess they need kids about my son who will enter pre 3 he was talking but standing all the time and running or playing or asking the consuler I need some chocolate for my other son who is your son age in a different school right now was answering the teacher qustions and I saw she is clubbing her hands both of my kids speaks english because the youngest is in a nurssery and the eldest was in english speaking nurssery since 18 month

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Latest post on 12 May 2014 - 19:52

Just want to add that last year my daughter didn't do well at all at the assessment :) they spent one hour with her before to get a single word :) but they took her :) I think it is a kind of procedure to respect, kind of face control. They need students more than students need them as they are a new school and not known in Doha. More over, at least 2 new schools will open just next street in September, so the concurrence is high in the area :)

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Latest post on 12 May 2014 - 19:49

My daughter is at preschool 3 at SEK and we love it. It is a new school, they put an effort to get the reputation. We have a native English speaking teacher and a spanish assistant. The kids are mainly Europeans. The school stuff is friendly and helpful. The number of classes will increase year after year, so I think it wouldn't be difficult to get a place at this school. Just make sure that your kid is fluent in English AND make sure that you really want IB curriculum because in early years it is fine enough, amusing, but at the last stages the child would need more serious school if he or she pretend to enter some serious high school. call the head teacher directly, her name is Vivian, she is very helpful, but don't waste your time on communication with the secretary :)

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Latest post on 12 May 2014 - 16:32

Elenor I got the same answer like you but my sons r small like applying for pree school 3 and 4 the took long time to replay like 3 weeks during this this time I called the office of admission they told me the dession will be according to the assesment result eathier accept not accepted or waiting pool my son who is 4 Years old did good in the assesment but my 3 years old didnt do that good because I was not with him in the room in my opinion about your daughter I guess they will interview more kids then they will see how many is going to take the place or how many will leave u called them again to ask and explain your situation

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Latest post on 12 May 2014 - 11:37

The admissions departments at all schools in Doha can be difficult at times (to put it mildly). I'd recommend calling them. Thank you to you all - I'll try to call them, as soon as I find the energy to do it. This morning I am pretty discouraged and I am thinking of giving it up and remain in Italy, as we are finding obstacles after obstacles in this moving project.... :-(

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Latest post on 12 May 2014 - 10:49

@E: My son will be going to grade 2, also my accept was surprisingly sitting in the junk mail where as the other communication from them was not also only I received the accept mail and not my husband. May be you should call, we had a very pleasant experience with the admissions dept. uote=Eleonor'>dear Lalala and purpleviolet, may I ask you in which grade will be your children next year at SEK? I am asking because we applied too, we did the assessment (Flying to Barcelona for the assesment from Italy!!), but we have been told that our daughter is in waiting list. We asked to have the results of the school assessment and to know what is the position in waiting list, but we never had the reply, and I did not like this behaviour at all!! I think that, after having paid for the assessment, the least we deserve is a feedback. thank you!!!! Eleonor My son goes there and my daughter will go next year. Very happy with the school (only school my daughter applied to). Do you have any specific questions?

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 12 May 2014 - 10:42

Thank you , am going ahead and paying up today, c u around soon.

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EW GURU

Latest post on 12 May 2014 - 09:26

The admissions departments at all schools in Doha can be difficult at times (to put it mildly). I'd recommend calling them. My daughter will be pre-school 3 and my son pre-school 5. Not sure that's at all relevant to your child's admission though - my son applied last year and my daughter has sibling-preference.

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Latest post on 11 May 2014 - 22:16

dear Lalala and purpleviolet, may I ask you in which grade will be your children next year at SEK? I am asking because we applied too, we did the assessment (Flying to Barcelona for the assesment from Italy!!), but we have been told that our daughter is in waiting list. We asked to have the results of the school assessment and to know what is the position in waiting list, but we never had the reply, and I did not like this behaviour at all!! I think that, after having paid for the assessment, the least we deserve is a feedback. thank you!!!! Eleonor My son goes there and my daughter will go next year. Very happy with the school (only school my daughter applied to). Do you have any specific questions?

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Latest post on 11 May 2014 - 09:48

My son goes there and my daughter will go next year. Very happy with the school (only school my daughter applied to). Do you have any specific questions?

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