CWB ESF vs. Renaissance College

Hello all,


I am planning to move to Sai Kung and was wondering what thoughts people have on CWB ESF and Renaissance School. Pros, cons and what would be the preferred school for kids 6 - 9 years old. Thankyou.

I understand that CWB esf is to become an IB school next school year (or has just changed its curriculum).


Renaissance is also an ESF school, I believe.


While i have no direct expereience of either school, the impression i have from friends is that there is generally more excitement, enthusiam and general good feeling (!) about renaissance than CWB.

Renaissance probably has the better (stronger) Chinese language teaching if that's important to you.

Renaissance is a PIS school. The PIS schools (private independant school) have been set up under an ESF umbrella company called ESF Educational Services. These schools have been set up to generate funds for ESF Schools. To obtain entry into an ESF school the child must be a fluent English Speaker so playground language is English. This rule is not so stingent at PIS schools (Renaissance & soon to be one in Discovery Bay)and playground language is predominently Chinese. Renaissance is IB all the way through. ESF schools will all shortly be PYP and IB at post 16, no IB for Middle Years. The facilities at Renaissance are outstanding, all the teachers are new and are paid less than ESF teachers, ESF schools have proven exam results which are some of the best worldwide, Renaissance being new is still an unknown quantity in regards to exam results.