Admission Regulation 2024-2025

Distribution date of Admission Form (No quota): From 15^th July, 2023

Distribution Period: From 21^st August, 2023

Time:	9:00a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Mondays to Fridays)
	9:00a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  (Saturdays)

Classes:

Kindergarten: K1 students for A.M./ P.M. classes, and transferred students K2 and K3 P.M. classes.

Nursery: Nursery for P.M. classes

Admission Method:

1. For online application, please prepare the child’s birth certificate, the bank deposit receipt with the registration fee of HKD 40 and the softcopy of the child’s ID photo in advance.
2. Fill in the online “Admission Application Form”, and upload the child’s ID photo, birth certificate and bank deposit receipt of the registration fee (please fill in the student’s name on the front of the receipt) and upload to the online registration system. After submission, you would receive a “confirmation email”.
3. Please go to branches and directly deposit the application fee to the following bank account or pay the application fee through Automated Teller Machine.

Bank Name：Hang Seng Bank ( 024 )

        *Olympic Branch

         (Olympic Branch) Account number：223-070707-002

         (Olympic Branch ) Account name: DOMINIC SAVIO KINDERGARTEN

4. Please add “[email protected]” for Olympic branch to your secure email address list to prevent the email system from deleting the “confirmation” by mistake, or please pay attention that mail may be sorted into miscellaneous box.
5. Please fill in all information to complete the entire registration procedure.
6. If you could not use the online registration system, you could visit our school to obtain the application form.

	Kindergarten	Nursery
Download from School Website	From 15th July, 2023
Obtain at School	From 21st August, 2023
Submit the completed form to the school	On or after 11th September, 2023
Deadline of form submission	1st November, 2023	17th January, 2024
Date of Interview	4th November, 2023	20th January, 2024
Interview Arrangement for Online Submission	> For those who submit online application on or  before September, we will inform the interview details by email in early October. > For those who submit online application from October to 1st November, we will inform the interview details by email at 2nd November.	> For those who submit online application from September to October, we will inform the interview details by email in early November. > For those who submit online application from November to December, we will inform the interview details by email in early January. > For those who submit online application from early in January to 17th January (before the deadline), we will inform the interview details by email at 18th January.

Interview Arrangements

1. The kindergarten will arrange interview to meet all children who apply for admission.
2. If you need interpretation/translation services, please call Olympic branch: 2626 9323, email: [email protected] to contact us or parents could choose to have a Chinese-speaking relatives and friends to accompany the children for assisting communication.
3. Due to the large number of interviewees, we are not able to change any scheduled interview time.
4. The personal information of the applicant is for admission purposes only. The personal data of unaccepted applicants will be destroyed within one year after admission announcement.
5. If applicant would like to transfer to another branch of our kindergarten after admission results, parents must reapply for the child.
6. The school will announce the admission results by email. For waitlisted students, the school will notify them individually when vacancies available.
7. If the applicant intends to give up the place after submitting the “Registration Certificate for Kindergarten Admission” and paying the registration fee, he must notify the school in writing three working days before so that the school could arrange for the applicant to retrieve the registration certificate. However, the paid registration fee would not be refunded.

Number of Enrolment:

(Olympic Branch) Kindergarten K1: 120, Nursery: 24

 Enrolment Criteria:

1. Those with good performance at the interview.
2. Preference will be given to students whose siblings graduated or studying in the school.
3. Preference will be given to staff’s children.

     ** (Please be noted that NOT all eligible applicants will be admitted due to limited spaces.) **

Regarding the Announcement of the Admission Results and the Arrangement of the Registration Day:

	Admission Results	Registration Date and Arrangement	Registration Time
Kindergarten	Parents will be notified by e-mail or post before 10th November 2023	Parents register in person at our school during 4th January – 6th January 2024 (Centralised Registration Dates) by submitting the original copy of “Registration Certificate for Kindergarten Admission” (hereafter referred to as “RC”)/”Admission Pass” (hereafter referred to as “AP”) and paying registration fee ** Parents are required to submit an application for the RC to the EDB from September to November 2023. The “RC” will be open for applications in September 2023 and the Education Bureau (hereafter referred to as “EDB” will announce and upload the details of application onto the EDB’s website (http://www.edb.gov.hk/k1-admission_e) in due course. Applicants on the waiting list: Parents should complete the registration procedures for their child according to the specified date set by the school. Parents are required to submit the “RC” / “AP” to the kindergarten and pay the registration fee. The registration fee for 2023/24 K1 place is HKD 970/ whole day class place is HKD 1570 . If the concerned children study in the kindergarten, the registration fee paid will be refunded in September. Should parents decide to change school after registration, please notify the kindergarten in writing.The kindergarten will return the “RC” / “AP” but the registration fee will not be refunded. Upon retrieving the “RC” / “AP”, the kindergarten will no longer keep the school place for the child.	(Mondays to Fridays) > 9:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. (Saturdays) > 9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. > 2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Nursery	Parents will be notified by e-mail or post before 26th January 2024	29th January – 30th January 2024 Parents register in person at our school and pay registration fee HKD 970

Programme:

Kindergarten:

Lower Kindergarten (K1): ages 32 months to 4 years

Middle Kindergarten (K2): ages 4 to 5 years

Upper Kindergarten (K3): ages 5 to 6 years

Nursery:

ages 2 to 3 years

 

Class Schedules:

Morning session: 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

Afternoon session: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.

School Fee:

Approved by the government, Dominic Savio Kindergarten (hereafter referred to as “the School”) has joined “Free Quality Kindergarten Education” (hereafter referred to “the Scheme”) launched by the Education Bureau (hereafter referred to “EDB”) since September 2017, children who study at the School would be eligible for school fee subsidy by the Scheme from the EDB.

For 2023-2024 (last school year), each half-day and whole-day student could be subsidized $38170/ year and $49620/ year respectively by the Scheme from the government.

After subsidy, half-day students in the Schools need not paying any school fee while each whole-day student needs to pay a small amount of tuition.

Those who do not have “Registration Certificate for Kindergarten Admission” need to pay certain school fee set by the government.

Kindergarten (Final school fee to be approved and confirmed by the Education Bureau)
Olympic Branch	A.M./ P.M. classes: No school fee is required

Nursery (Final school fee to be approved and confirmed by the Joint Office For Kindergartens and Child Care Centers)
Olympic Branch	P.M. Nursery: HKD$4,700/ month

[Remarks: Annual school fee will be paid by 10 installments, no tuition for July and August]

Teaching Material Fee:

around HKD 1400/term

Refreshment Fee:

HKD 520/term

Class Commencement Date: 2^nd September, 2024 (Mon)