The American International School, abbreviated AIS, is a privately-owned school in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. AIS provides educational instruction at the early childhood, elementary, middle school and high school levels and follows an American format English curriculum, modified and tailored towards students with a limited knowledge of English. The school has a diverse student body with students coming from a number of countries. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Image File history File links Aislogo. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In modern day Hong Kong, Kowloon refers to the urban area made up of Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon, bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutters Island in the west, Tates Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and... Image File history File links Flag_of_Hong_Kong. ... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... Hong Kong (香港; Cantonese IPA: ; Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2; Yale: heūng góng; pinyin: Xiānggǎng; Wade-Giles: Hsiang-kang) is one of the two Special Administrative Regions of the Peoples Republic of China. ... A primary school in ÄŒeský Těšín, Poland Primary education is the first stage of compulsory education. ... Middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) covers a period of education that straddles primary education and secondary education, serving as a bridge between the two. ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Campus

The school's primary campus is located at 121-129 Waterloo Road, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, a 10 minute walk from the Kowloon Tong MTR and KCR stations and bus terminus. Kowloon Tong station sign Kowloon Tong (Chinese: 九龍塘, Cantonese IPA: ; Jyutping: gau2 lung4 tong4 zaam6, Mandarin Pinyin: Jiǔlóngtáng Zàn) is a station on MTRs Kwun Tong Line in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. ... Entrance to Kowloon Tong station. ...

Over the past few years, AIS has started to expand its campus by building up new campus buildings along Waterloo Road. AIS has built a new campus building in the high school area.

The school campus only has very limited sports facilities, and most physical education activities are held in Kowloon Tsai Park nearby. Ball games can be played in the public playground and tennis/squash can be played in booked courts. Annually, the Sports Day/Track and Field Day, an event ran by all school students in December, are also held in the sportsground in the park. Kowloon Tsai Park (Chinese: 九龍仔公園/九龙仔公园, Pinyin: Jiulongzai Gongyuan) is one of two parks located in the Kowloon City area of Kowloon. ...

History

In 1986, the California International School (CIS) was established in the Kowloon Tong area. In 2000, the school was renamed American International School. Still, for many years, the school continues its policies in teaching in the Californian system despite calling themselves American International School.

Curricular

Due to the competition of new international schools being built around the area, AIS started to accept more students than before, expanding the school to a bigger community. Other than American teachers, there are also teachers from New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, South Africa, England, France, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, India, Hong Kong, Burma, and Canada. In adapting to the American system, this school demonstrates a good opportunity for students to get into American colleges easier.

Extra-curricular

School pupils compete in tournaments between international schools in Kowloon and Hong Kong; in soccer A/B/C (Boys/Girls), volleyball A/B/C (Girls), basketball A/B/C (Boys) and swimming (Boys/Girls). AIS also is participating in track and field events against schools around the district and also throughout Hong Kong.

In recent years, the volleyball A/B girls teams won the international schools' championships in Hong Kong (ISSF).

A Cultural Fair is held annually in November, and Middle/High school performances are held in February or May.

Houses

AIS had created house activities, creating rivalries in the school in competing in sports-based and academic-based activities. Before the 2003-2004 year, AIS had four houses determined by color: Red, yellow, green, and blue. After 2004, the school started to make house activities more significant, based on homerooms in grades, into three competitive houses with legendary animals and colors coming from the school emblem, as well as the American flag. The three legendary animals are the Blue Dragons, the White Tigers, and the Red Phoenix.

Every year in December, track and field competitions are held for Sports Day in Kowloon Tsai Park.

See also

• Education in the United States

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Official site

• American International School