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I've just joined this forum after reviewing the site for a few weeks. Looks like a good spot to start. I am returning to Thailand after 11 years living in Australia. I have a 13 year old son. We have been looking at the Nakorn Payap school website. Does anyone have anymore information about the school or knows someone with children or who teaches there that could give me info.

I am also curious to know more about a few apartments: Flora House, PT Place and Silver Sand House. I would like to have airconditioning, access to sat. TV and internet.

I speak Thai and am fairly used to Thai culture. We would look at renting a house later down the track but I need to get most of all this organised before leaving Australia.

Much thanks in anticipation of replies.

I work at Nakorn Payap International School. NIS is an American Curriculum, fully English medium international school. Our student body has about 40% Thai national kids, 30% mixed nationality kids, and the rest are from some other country. We have a very strong ESL program in both the elementary and secondary schools. NIS is a secular school that has excellent facilities and a really superb group of teachers that are fully qualified and mostly American or Canadian. The faculty turnover rate is 4.9 years - very good for international schools. NIS is fully accredited with the US based Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) as well as the Thai Ministry of Education. Our facility is only 4 years old and the school bought new resources at that time, so everything is quite new.

The best way to get a feel for each of the schools is to visit them and see for yourself. Each school has its strengths and weaknesses, and as a parent, you should choose the school that you feel best suits your needs and the needs of your children. Please feel free to contact us at NIS for any questions that you might have about our school.

Thank you for your reply. I have been in contact with NIS and they have been extremely helpful by sending information like curriculum, etc and I am aware of their creditials (hence my strong interest in this school). But I wanted to gather more of a feel of the school from parents and students so I can reassure my child will have other kids there to relate to as a native English speaker. He doesn't speak Thai yet (I can communicate in Thai so no problems for me). I am hoping NIS also has a good Thai language faculty. Are there any other kids from Australia? And yes, I would love to come out and visit all the schools if I could but we are planning to come out to CM to live in January and I would like to have the school organised first. The school year here finishes at Christmas so it doesn't leave much time to visit schools, apply and get accepted. This is certainly not a case for "Jai Yen Yen" but rather good planning. Do you have any information about housing near NIS? I would be most grateful for more feedback from you. cheers

Haven't got a clue regarding the school-part of your query, but if I were you, I wouldn't bother much about deciding on living quarters by means of Internet research. You can rest assured that' there'll be no problem in finding a neighbourhood you'll like in Chiang Mai - and there'll be no problem in finding a temporary place you can stay until you've found that place of your dreams. The places with Internet adverticement are usually not the optimal ones, when considering best value for money. Take it easy, come here and find a temporary place from where you can look around for your dreamplace.

Very good advice!!!!

I live in a neighbourhood that has several familes who send their children to Nakorn Payap. There's also a few teachers who live in this neighbourhood as well. From what I can tell, most of the families are Asian. The Thai family that I know don't speak English but their kids do because they go to that school. While they're not native speakers, I was impressed by how fluent they were.

You'll get every opinion going but based on what I've heard people say from my side of town is that the best school is Prem (no other school compares to it in quality). If you can't afford Prem, the next choice is CMIS. Nakorn Payap seems to be third choice for those who live on this side of town. But, from the highway, their facilities look quite nice compared to CMIS. Other schools (such as Lanna) are probably equally as popular if you live towards Hang Dong.

Many thanks for your feedback. I know about the Prem school but unfortunately, its way out of my price range.

How many kids (high school). % of western kids to Thai kids. Number of kids in class. Types of after school activities and sports. Sports (my son is into football - like Rugby)

How does this school rate amongst other new schools of similar type?

Student teacher ratio.

How do kids feel about the school.

Those type of questions and probably alot more I can't think of at the moment.

Cheers

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http://interactive-map.chiangmai-news.com/

I've just joined this forum after reviewing the site for a few weeks. Looks like a good spot to start. I am returning to Thailand after 11 years living in Australia. I have a 13 year old son. We have been looking at the Nakorn Payap school website. Does anyone have anymore information about the school or knows someone with children or who teaches there that could give me info.

I am also curious to know more about a few apartments: Flora House, PT Place and Silver Sand House. I would like to have airconditioning, access to sat. TV and internet.

I speak Thai and am fairly used to Thai culture. We would look at renting a house later down the track but I need to get most of all this organised before leaving Australia.

Much thanks in anticipation of replies.