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Post by hopefulspouse on Jun 29, 2024 19:16:34 GMT
Hi I have been going through the posts about this but many of the answers are many years old. We are interviewing now but I’m worried about the on camp school. What is the quality like? I’ve read elsewhere that many people are sending their kids to the British school instead of the camp school? Is the quality not like it used to be? I’d rather our children go on camp because I think that would be more convenient. But if the school isn’t good we need to really think about things.
Any insight?
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Post by raulo on Jun 30, 2024 4:11:51 GMT
Thanks for posting, i had the same query and looking fwd to responses. One family in Dhahran camp whom we know are sending 7 and 10 yr olds to British school outside camp sighting dissatisfaction about camp schools.
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tamsin
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Post by tamsin on Jun 30, 2024 7:09:41 GMT
I have never used the school, my children were too old but the fact you only mention the British school might be the key. The camp school is very well subscribed to but is American curriculum, only goes up to age 14 and is the standard of any good state school. The issue is children then having to switch to the British system at the exam years stage.
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Post by hopefulspouse on Jun 30, 2024 7:57:38 GMT
Thanks tasmin. I suspect it is a very good school so we will just have to wait and see for ourselves. If anyone else with kids in the school has any comments we’d love to hear!
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Post by kyle1639 on Jun 30, 2024 17:26:05 GMT
We moved from Scotland to Saudi and my daughter attended the Elementary School in RT. We had the same concerns and a few expats had voiced their concerns.
Personally we had 0 issues in the end, we have since came back to Scotland and my daughter is probably ahead of 95% of the class.
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Post by hopefulspouse on Jun 30, 2024 20:55:02 GMT
Thanks Kyle. This definitely eases my mind. Glad to hear your daughter was ahead!
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Post by kyle1639 on Jun 30, 2024 21:57:31 GMT
Thanks Kyle. This definitely eases my mind. Glad to hear your daughter was ahead! Depending on the date of birth, some children miss the cut off for the higher grade. My daughter was one of them, but absolutely did not suffer for it. She excelled if anything. |
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NewBieRE
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Post by NewBieRE on Jul 1, 2024 3:42:15 GMT
One comment about the Aramco school you might want to consider, kids are brought home for lunch everyday. This was not very conviniet to one of my colleagues but ok for us.
Also, make sure you have all vaccinations, there are probably posts on this subject on this forum...
Good luck
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Post by xceptional8 on Sept 23, 2024 3:47:59 GMT
Many people join aramco considering am opportunity to travel middle east but reading the school handbook it looks like school is very strict about absences so I wanted to check if they really are and then how people manage travel with kids
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tamsin
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Post by tamsin on Sept 23, 2024 6:20:14 GMT
In the school holidays or homeschooling..
But also, many departments expect you to take a big vacation (one month) and a smaller (two weeks) so outside of that and public holidays/eids, you possibly won’t be travelling outside those times either.
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