There are a number of important forms that parents must complete before their child starts at DBIS.
An easy-to-use system, OpenApply, handles new applications and associated forms. Please login to your existing account (or create a new one if you have not already done so.)
Parents with older applications who did not apply through OpenApply can find the pre-arrival forms below:
DBIS Levies
New parents will have selected one of the two types of Levy on application:
- Premium School Development Levy (PSDL)
- Standard School Development Levy (SSDL)
Premium School Development Levy:
- Single one-off payment
- Must be paid on receipt of offer letter
Standard School Development Levy
- Two payments of 50% of SSDL amount
- First payment must be paid on receipt of offer letter
- Second payment due in June of the academic year the student starts
Students are unable to start school until the levy payments have been received.
Following receipt, students will be allocated a class and parents will be sent a Parent Portal login.
School Fees
- Fees are due on the first of each month and are paid in 10 monthly instalments.
- The Accounts Department will issue an invoice on a monthly basis.
- A Direct Debit form will be sent by Accounts Department for AutoPay.
- Fees are generally settled by AutoPay through a Hong Kong bank.
Contact
Methods of Payment
Uniform can be purchased from the DBIS Uniform Shop located at the Main Campus.
The uniform shop opening hours are extended over the Summer Holidays and details of the times will be available in a school bulletin on the Hub at the time.
General School Information
90% of information can be found without a login on the Parent Hub.
This includes bulletins about upcoming events, news, calendar, curricular information, practical day to day information required by parents.
Download DBIS Communications PDF HERE
Individual Student Information
Schoolsbuddy and the iSAMS’ Parent Portal
Schoolsbuddy and the Parent Portal share a login. Instructions on how to set-up a DBIS login is emailed to parents prior to their child joining the school.
| Schoolsbuddy: | Sign up for extra curricular activities three times a year. Upcoming camp and trip information Sports fixtures. |
| Parent Portal: | School reports; timetables; logins; music lesson invoices; medical and contact check documents (for camps). There is a computer based version and an App. |
Seesaw
Students in FS-1 to Year 6 have Seesaw portfolios and parents will be sent a family invite after joining to enable them to view their child’s work.
Emails sent by School
Emails are not sent except in specific circumstances:
- Emergency emails e.g. school closure due to typhoon
- Small group emails e.g. small group excursions
- Specific emails to parents about their child
- Weekly bulletin summary on Sunday morning
- Weekly newsletter on Friday afternoon
Student Online Learning Platforms
Please refer to the Digital Learning tab on this page for more information –Â HERE.
Links to DBIS Communications Systems
How to Guides and Videos
Student Logins
Google Login
Student are provided with a school login from Year 1 upwards. This is a Google login and gives students access to Google Drive, Google Classroom and email (for the older years only).
Other Logins
There are also a number of other online logins that students in Year 1 and upwards use to access certain learning platforms such as Mangahigh. These are emailed to parents on the first day their child joins and are also available on Parent Portal in the Documents section.
School-wide shared logins
DBIS has subscribed to a number of useful educational sites with a shared school login (for example Encyclopaedia Brittanica). These school wide logins are available on the Parent Portal in the Documents section.
Online Resources Guides
Digital Devices
There are a number of guides to help parents understand the online systems that students will be accessing to support their learning and the digital devices used within school.
Digital Guides
Student Forms and Agreements
Students in Secondary and their parents need to sign the relevant agreement before they can be given their digital device or be allowed to join their BYOD device to the school network.
Student Forms
Student Agreements
During your child’s time at DBIS we ask that you keep us informed of any changes e.g. address, student absence.
We have a number of forms that you will find useful to keep the school up-to-date:
General Forms:
Medical Forms:
Extra Curricular Forms: