Dear Parents, 

If you were unable to attend, here is the recording of the recent webinar on the new ESF Hub. Over the summer, across ESF, we will be moving to new online systems that will support our community. This is your first introduction to its functionality. 

Here is the link and password to watch the recording

https://esf-learning.zoom.us/rec/share/0RPvdkS0vF3PVFt1mrtoKKo2xu3HD_yFEoWd42YaGtUA-bMiknxiBQZv66_KhZg.5_KtKn-VoRvC3gkQ
Passcode: aGj+FRd0

Kind regards, 

Suzannah

Adventure Awaits this Summer!

ESF Explore Summer Camps kick off on 29 June, and we want your child to be part of the excitement! There’s still time to secure a spot for a summer filled with discovery, learning, and new friendships.

Exclusive Loyalty Offer: As a valued member of our community, use promo code ESFAPP10 to enjoy 10% off all summer camp registrations.

View our Summer Camp Guide

Spaces are filling up fast. Register today to ensure your child doesn’t miss out on an unforgettable summer experience!
We can’t wait to see you there!

ESF Explore Team
Sports | Language | Playgroups | STEM | Arts

T +852 2711 1280
http://www.esfexplore.org.hk | info@esfexplore.org.hk

Dear Parents of K1 Students (2022 year born),

Peak School is delighted to announce our upcoming Open Day for prospective parents of children born in 2022 who will need a Year 1 place for August 2027. This will take place on Wednesday, 10 June, from 8:45 am to 10:30 am.

If you are interested in attending, please register via this Google Form link. 

For any questions, please contact the Peak School Admissions Manager, Maria Brusuelas, at 2849 7211 or by email at admissions@peakschool.edu.hk.

We look forward to welcoming families to Peak School and showcasing our vibrant learning environment.

Warm regards,

Peak School Admissions

Dear Parents of K1 Students (2022 year born),

Clearwater Bay School will hold an open day for prospective parents of Year 1 students on Friday, 12 June 2026. The open day is designed for interested families whose child will be enrolling in Year 1 for the 2027/2028 academic year (born in 2022).

The open day will include a school tour and an opportunity to meet with some of our students and our senior leadership team. Parents will also be able to ask any questions they may have about the school or the admissions process.

CWBS Open Day for Y1 2027/28 Prospective Parents 

Date: Friday, 12 June 2026
Time: 8:45-9:30am, 11:15am-12:00pm, 1:15-2:00pm
Venue: Clearwater Bay School

If you are interested in attending, please register via this link: Open Day for Y1 2027/28 prospective parents (CWBS)

If you have any questions, please contact admissions@cwbs.edu.hk 

Warm regards,

Clearwater Bay School Admissions

Confirmation of School Place and Advance Fees for 2026/27 - ESF International Kindergartens

Dear Parents

As we approach the end of the school year, we are writing to let you know the procedure to confirm your child’s place for 2026/27. If you will be withdrawing your child and have submitted the Withdrawal Notice to your school, please ignore this letter.

Every year, parents need to reserve a school place for their child for the following year by making an advance payment of September’s fees as a surety.

Advance Payment

The advance fees for K2 students in the next academic year are as follows: 

Students who will be transferring to the new kindergartens—ESF Renaissance College Kindergarten, ESF Quarry Bay School Kindergarten, and ESF West Kowloon Kindergarten—in the upcoming school year are required to pay the advance fee based on their current kindergarten to secure their place. 

Students transferring from ESF Tung Chung International Kindergarten to ESF Renaissance College Kindergarten next school year are required to pay the advance fees of $10,160 or $11,790 for bilingual class students, which are the current fees. 

These advance fees will be used to offset the tuition fees for September 2026. If there is a revision of fees in the next academic year, the difference will be payable in September 2026. 

Please note that your child’s school place will not be confirmed if we do not receive your advance fees before the payment due date or if there are any outstanding tuition fees on the account without prior arrangement at the beginning of the next academic year. 

Settlement

The advance payment will be debited from your designated bank account on 3 August 2026. Please ensure that there are sufficient funds in the account.

If you have not set up the direct debit authorisation yet, please complete the Direct Debit Authorisation Form and send it back to ESF Centre, G.P.O. Box 11284, Hong Kong by 1 June 2026 as it may take up to six weeks for the bank to process the direct debit.

If your monthly tuition fees are being settled by your employer directly, please make the payment by cheque on or before 15 July 2026:

1. Click here to download and complete the Cheque Payment Slip;
2. Send the cheque payment slip together with a crossed cheque made payable to “The ESF Educational Services Ltd” to “G.P.O. Box 11284, Hong Kong” on or before 15 July 2026. Post-dated cheques are not accepted.

Student Withdrawals

If you are withdrawing your child at the end of this academic year, please submit the student withdrawal notice via the ESF App by 1 June 2026. Otherwise, we will assume that your child is returning after summer and parents are liable for the tuition fees for September 2026 even if the student does not return to school.

Should you have any queries regarding the above, please contact our Billing Team at billing@esfcentre.edu.hk

We would like to thank you for your cooperation on this matter, and we wish your child every success in 2026/27.

Yours sincerely

Vivian Cheung                          Julie Wong
Chief Financial Officer              ESF Head of Admissions

Dear Parents, 

ESF is currently performing a carbon audit of our operations, in conjunction with a consulting firm. This is to help us, as an organisation, establish a reliable and accurate baseline of data to inform our future actions in the area of sustainability. As part of this, we are gathering complete and accurate data on the emissions associated with our students' daily travel to/from school. 

If you would like to contribute to this work, please click on the link below.

Survey link

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly. 

Kind regards, 

Suzannah

Parents

I wanted to follow up my message to you yesterday about ESF Hub with an invite to an introductory Webinar about the product.

Kindergarten ESF Hub Parent Information Webinar:

27 May 6:30-7:30 PM

Register here:
https://esf-learning.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kBoGxGLHReWCIHw8LkL-IQ

At this session we will give you a demonstration of the key features of ESF Hub and explain when it will roll out, the training materials that will be available to you and also begin the conversation about how it will look in your school.

For those of you who cannot make this session, don't worry, we will send out a link to the recording afterwards.

As I said in my message yesterday, this is a major upgrade to our systems. It will bring with it a whole host of benefits, particularly for our students. Change of this nature can often be tricky, but you have our commitment that we will be doing everything we can to make sure that you are ready to use ESF Hub when it launches with you in the new academic year.

I look forward to seeing you soon.

Rob Shorthouse 

Director of Strategy and Communications

Dear K1 Parents,

Your child's unit report for Stories is available on the VLE. The unit was part of the learning in Term 2, and supports inquiry into different forms of Stories and how we engage with them. It is designed to support children's understanding of 'How We Express Ourselves'. If you have any difficulty accessing this report, please contact the school admin team for support. I recommend you download/airdrop/save a copy for future reference. 

Save the Date - Shared Learning/Student-Led Conference Day 
Parents will be invited to school on Friday 5th June, for specified time slots to join their children in learning engagements. More details will follow about arrangements and sign-up, but please note the date. Regular session times will be suspended. We hope you will be able to join us.

Kind regards, 

Suzannah

Dear K2 Parents, 

Your child's unit report for Community is available on the VLE. The unit is followed at different points throughout the year, and supports inquiry into the communities we are part of and how we celebrate together. It is designed to support children's understanding of 'Who We Are'. If you have any difficulty accessing this report, please contact the school admin team for support. I recommend you download/airdrop/save a copy for future reference. 

Save the Date - Shared Learning/Student-Led Conference Day
Parents will be invited to school on Friday 5th June, for specified time slots to join their children in learning engagements. More details will follow about arrangements and sign-up, but please note the date. Regular session times will be suspended.

Save the Date - K2/P1 Transition Celebrations
As is customary, we will celebrate with all our K2 classes and families at school. More specific details will follow. Please note the dates and times.

Monday 15th June  Panda AM 9am Panda PM 1.30pm
Monday 15th June Giraffe AM 10am Giraffe PM  2.30pm
Tuesday 16th June Elephant AM 9am Elephant PM 1.30pm
Tuesday 16th June Tiger AM 10am Tiger PM  2.30pm

Please feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any questions or comments. 

suzannah.large@tyk.edu.hk

Kind regards, 

Suzannah

Parents

I wanted to write to you to let you know about the progress we are making with the rollout of ESF Hub.

I am sure you have heard about this, but in case you have not: ESF Hub is our new, 'one-stop-shop' app and desktop platform designed to bring everything related to your child’s ESF journey together into one convenient place.

As well as carrying out important tasks such as reporting absence, reading reports and catching up on all the latest news and events from your school, ESF Hub will, for the first time, allow you to gain real insight into what and how your child is learning at school.

Five ESF schools joined the pilot rollout in August 2025. Having learned from their experience, we are now ready to onboard additional schools for the upcoming academic year. Depending on each school's specific requirements, they will join ESF Hub in either at full capacity or via a phased approach starting this August. The following schools will be joining us for the next stage of the journey:

All ESF Kindergartens

All ESF Primary Schools

ESF Jockey Club Sarah Roe School

ESF King George V School

ESF Renaissance College

ESF West Island School

If you have a child at one of these schools, we will shortly be launching the parent information and training programme. The aim of this work is to make sure that you are ready to master the basics of ESF Hub on the first day of term. Your school will then continue to update you over the course of the school year with all the other, more advanced features of the product.

Crucially, if you are part of this rollout, you will no longer use the current ESF App from August 2026.

If your school is not listed as part of this latest phase, we will be in touch with you again to let you know when you will gain access to ESF Hub.

This means that you will continue to use the current ESF App and other existing systems if your child attends:

ESF Discovery College

ESF South Island School

ESF Sha Tin College

This is one of the biggest programmes of system improvements that we have carried out in a long time. It will bring real benefits to you, to our staff and, most of all, to our students. 

Like all changes, there will be bumps in the road. However, I want to assure you that we will do everything we can to make sure that you will be able to first use the product efficiently for the most important tasks, before opening up all the opportunities to be a bigger part of your child’s education that ESF Hub offers.

I will be in touch with you again soon with more information.

As always, thank you for your support of your school and of ESF.

Rob Shorthouse

Director of Strategy and Communications

Dear Families, 

Your feedback is an essential part of the work we do at ESF TYK. In Term 3, I will be holding individual Principal/Parent consultation meetings to better understand your thoughts and suggestions regarding your child's experiences at kindergarten. This can be an opportunity to share more details about anything you added to the ESF survey, or any other areas you would like to discuss. It is not a meeting about your child's individual progress at school. 

If you would like to meet with me, please sign up using this FORM. These meetings can be on Zoom or in person, and I will add additional times if needed. I look forward to the opportunity to have a conversation. 

Wishing all of you a peaceful Easter break, and we will begin Term 3 on Monday 13th April. 

Kind regards, 

Suzannah

Dear Parent,

The ESF Board met last night to approve our budget for the upcoming school year.

Please click here to read a message from our CEO, Belinda Greer. 

Dear K2 Families, 

Thank you for your support of our Storytelling month, including your commitment to our Dress Up day, your donation of books for our book drop, and your time as class storytellers. We have welcomed over 100 storytellers to school, and today the children have all had the opportunity to make their own choice from our  'Book Swap'. In addition, the children have enjoyed an in-school puppet show and an inspirational visit to HKMOA. This has all helped to extend creative thinking in our classrooms. 

Thank you also for your commitment to your child's learning through your conversations with teachers during the consultation meetings and through your contributions to the ESF parent survey. Ongoing communication helps our whole learning community to be the best it can be. 

We have already begun to welcome visits from our Primary colleagues ahead of the transition time, and will continue to work closely with them to ensure a smooth process as our K2s get ready to move on to the next step of their ESF journey. 

The term has been a busy one, and our last day of school will be Thursday 26th March.

We will welcome children back to school on Monday 13th April.

As always, you are welcome to reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns ahead of Term 3 at suzannah.large@tyk.edu.hk

With much appreciation,

Suzannah

Dear K1 Families, 

Thank you for your support of our Storytelling month, including your commitment to our Dress Up day, your donation of books for our book drop, and your time as class storytellers. We have welcomed over 100 storytellers to school, and today the children have all had the opportunity to make their own choice from our  'Book Swap'. In addition, the children have enjoyed puppet shows and in-school performances over this month. 

Thank you also for your commitment to your child's learning through your conversations with teachers during the consultation meetings and through your contributions to the ESF parent survey. Ongoing communication helps our whole learning community to be the best it can be. 

The term has been a busy one, and our last day of school will be Thursday 26th March.

We will welcome children back to school on Monday 13th April.

As always, you are welcome to reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns  ahead of Term 3 at suzannah.large@tyk.edu.hk

With much appreciation,

Suzannah

Dear Families,

If your child has had their school photos taken on 5 or 6 February, they will bring home an order form today with thumbnails of their photos printed at the back. If you wish to place a print order, please send your order form to Peter by email. (Email address is on the order form) and payments will be made online via FPS or bank transfer. Any print orders received within two weeks from today will be returned to the school to be distributed to families. Late print orders will be mailed directly to you, with an additional cost for postage, to your mailing address.

If you have any enquiries about the photos, please contact Peter directly at info@peteringlisphotography.com.

Thank you.

Warm regards,

TYK Administration Team

Dear Families, 

Happy 2026 to you all! It is a pleasure to have our children back in school for the new term, reconnecting with their teachers and their classmates after the break. We are already looking forward to our celebrations for the Year of the Horse in February and are excited to join together as a community to celebrate. 

Your child's latest Unit report for Living Things is now available on the VLE/ESF App. I recommended that you airdrop or save a copy for your own records.

We have a busy Term 2 ahead of us. I'm including some key dates below for your reference, and more specific details for each will follow.

K2 School Photo Day Friday 6th February
Panda and Caterpillar Family Days 9th February
Giraffe and Ladybird Family Days 10th February
Elephants and Butterflies Family Days 11th Feb
Tigers and Bumblebee Family Days 12th Feb

Last day of school before CNY Friday 13th February
First Day back after CNY Monday 23rd February

K2 Parent Teacher Zoom Meetings from 9th-20th March (Sign Up Forms will be shared later this week)

In March, we will be inviting parents to sign up to volunteer as class storytellers. Alli will share the sign-ups for those next month. We will also be engaging in curriculum enrichment activities this term for K2, and we look forward to sharing the details with you. 

 Additionally, this term, we will be welcoming teams from other ESF schools to TYK as part of our commitment to building collaboration across the foundation and to begin the transition journey to ESF Primary Schools.

Best wishes, 
Suzannah

Dear Families, 

Happy 2026 to you all! It is a pleasure to have our children back in school for the new term, reconnecting with their teachers and their classmates after the break. We are already looking forward to our celebrations for the Year of the Horse in February and are excited to join together as a community to celebrate. 

Your child's latest Unit report for Transport is now available on the VLE/ESF App. I recommended that you airdrop or save a copy for your own records.

We have a busy Term 2 ahead of us. I'm including some key dates below for your reference, and more specific details for each will follow.

K1 School Photo Day Thursday 5th February
Pandas and Caterpillars Family Days 9th February
Giraffes and Ladybirds Family Days 10th February
Elephants and Butterflies Family Days 11th Feb
Tigers and Bumblebees Family Days 12th Feb

Last day of school before CNY Friday 13th February
First Day back after CNY Monday 23rd February

K1 Parent Teacher Zoom Meetings from 2nd-20th March (Sign Up Forms will be shared later this week)

In March, we will be inviting parents to sign up to volunteer as class storytellers. Alli will share the sign-ups for those next month. We will also be engaging in curriculum enrichment activities this term for both K1, and we look forward to sharing the details with you. 

 Additionally, this term, we will be welcoming teams from other ESF schools to TYK as part of our commitment to building collaboration across the foundation.

Best Wishes, 
Suzannah

Dear Parents,

Keeping your child safe is our top priority at ESF.

I would like to share our Safeguarding and Child Protection Brochure with you. This document explains how we work to protect your children from harm.

You may be aware that Hong Kong has introduced a new law regarding child protection. As of 20 January 2026, our teachers and staff are legally required to report serious safety concerns to the authorities. We view this as a positive step to ensure children's safety, and all our staff have been trained on this new law.

We want to work closely with you to keep your child safe.

If you ever have a worry or concern, no matter how small, please come and speak to us. It doesn't have to be about a major incident; it could simply be a feeling you have or something you are unsure about.

You can speak with your school's Principal, or contact your school's Child Protection Officers directly. Please visit your school's website and go to the "What we stand for" section. You can find their contact details there.

Our doors are always open to you.

Sincerely,

Mark Blackshaw

Director of Education
English Schools Foundation 
 

Dear Parents,

Following the distressing news of the fire in Tai Po, we are writing to share how we are supporting children and to offer advice for the days ahead. Whenever a tragedy like this occurs, young children can feel confused or frightened. They will naturally look to adults for information and guidance on how to react.

How the School is Responding

Our priority is to help children by establishing a sense of safety and security. We understand that for many children, they will be aware of the event but will not be impacted by it. However, recognising the significance of the event, we want to inform you about the steps we are taking as a school community.

• Safety and Routine: We are maintaining a structured and stable environment within the school. Staying in a normal routine with friends and teachers helps children regain a sense of normality.

• Emotional Support: Our school staff will be available to speak with any students who need additional support or ask questions.

How You Can Help at Home

• Model Calm: Children take their emotional cues from the significant adults in their lives. Try to avoid appearing anxious or frightened, but it is okay to let your children know you are sad. You will be better able to support your child if you express your own emotions in a productive and calm manner.

• Remain Factual: Tell children the truth about the fire, but keep explanations developmentally appropriate. Do not embellish or speculate on what might happen next.

• Limit News Exposure: Restrict television and social media viewing of the event. Watching the same images repeatedly can be harmful. The news has been showing live streaming videos, which can contain disturbing images.

• Maintain Routines: Stick to your family's normal routine for dinner and bedtime as much as possible.

• Offer Comfort: Stay close to your children; they may want different ways to express their feelings, such as physical contact, creative activities, or longer bedtime routines.

• Validate Feelings: Acknowledge that it is okay to feel scared, worried, or sad, and think about ways you can help yourself feel better.

• Monitor Wellbeing: Watch for changes in behaviour, appetite, and sleep patterns, which can indicate anxiety. This can also mean your child is more withdrawn than usual.

If you have been directly affected by the fire, or if you notice your child showing anxiety or fear, please contact the school so we can support you and your family.

Kind regards,
Suzannah