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leehoma001 寫道:
My kid is now studying at year 2 of ESF, therefore I can only tell about year 1 and 2.

Homework:
For year 1 -
- read one English book per day according to the kid's reading level
- read one more difficult English book together with parents per week
- do a few lines of Chinese writing once per week

For year 2 up to  now
- read one English book per day and write a short comment about the book
- read one more difficult English book together with the parents per week
- do a few lines of Chinese writing once per week
- do one page of homework once per week, it may be to draw some objects at home when talking about shapes at school, draw a plant with labels when talking about plants at school, draw both sides of different coins and go to buy things with the same value and then draw the things that have bought, cut a fruit into half and portrait the fruit, do some measurements... etc.

For both year 1 and year 2, there will be no formal test nor any formal exams. There will be two assessments per year.  The teacher will ask the students one by one to conduct individual assessement by the teacher himself/herself while the other kids are doing some other activities during the lesson.  Of course the kids will not be ranked.


It is difficult to tell exactly what kinds of things my kid has learnt from school. However, my kid (in year 2 equivalent to P1 of SIS) has already known most of the science knowledge as described by EEPhoon. I don't know whether my kid learnt them at school or by his own reading as my kid likes to read the series of science and encyclopedia books I purchased by himself  and he always tells me somethings that I haven't read or heard before.





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thankful 寫道:
leehoma001,

I remember seeing you mentioned in one of the threads that your kid is studying in ESF.  Could you please tell us what sort of homework he is having on a daily basis and what sort of things he is learning in school?  Thanks![quote]

thankful 寫道:
一條毛

Just tell me that you are kidding only - I'm 45 years old and I still don't know any of the things that you mentioned.  By the way, you are really asking for trouble.  I'm sure that leehoma001 will tell you that her new born baby already knows all these things.  So in order to pre-empt her rebuke, I would now declare that my kid (who is conceived this very instant) knows everything already.  So my kid is the winner!!![quote]
一條毛 寫道:
Leehoma001,

One thing that I totally agree wtih you: kids can learn lots of thing by self reading. My son who is in PY1 of SIS knows most of the scientifc knowledge discribed by EEPhoon and much more. To name you a few: how fossil is formed, what are the different kind of volcanos, Mt Everest is a fold mountain, what is the differences between crocodile and alligator, different kinds of rocks (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic) etc......However, I am sure that these are not learned from school since I receive E-mail from his class teacher almost every week to inform me what is happening in the class.
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leehoma001 寫道:
My kid is now studying at year 2 of ESF, therefore I can only tell about year 1 and 2.

Homework:
For year 1 -
- read one English book per day according to the kid's reading level
- read one more difficult English book together with parents per week
- do a few lines of Chinese writing once per week

For year 2 up to  now
- read one English book per day and write a short comment about the book
- read one more difficult English book together with the parents per week
- do a few lines of Chinese writing once per week
- do one page of homework once per week, it may be to draw some objects at home when talking about shapes at school, draw a plant with labels when talking about plants at school, draw both sides of different coins and go to buy things with the same value and then draw the things that have bought, cut a fruit into half and portrait the fruit, do some measurements... etc.

For both year 1 and year 2, there will be no formal test nor any formal exams. There will be two assessments per year.  The teacher will ask the students one by one to conduct individual assessement by the teacher himself/herself while the other kids are doing some other activities during the lesson.  Of course the kids will not be ranked.


It is difficult to tell exactly what kinds of things my kid has learnt from school. However, my kid (in year 2 equivalent to P1 of SIS) has already known most of the science knowledge as described by EEPhoon. I don't know whether my kid learnt them at school or by his own reading as my kid likes to read the series of science and encyclopedia books I purchased by himself  and he always tells me somethings that I haven't read or heard before.





[quote]
thankful 寫道:
leehoma001,

I remember seeing you mentioned in one of the threads that your kid is studying in ESF.  Could you please tell us what sort of homework he is having on a daily basis and what sort of things he is learning in school?  Thanks![quote]

leehoma001 寫道:

Unlike those traditoanl local school as well as SIS,  ESF doesn't give us a detailed syallubus nor a detailed description of its curriculum. There are no text books, no test or exam papers and the homework I mentioned before was so limited. What ESF gave us is a just a very very brief decription of the study focus for the coming week at its web.

However, I trust ESF's system very much from its good track records and also from the daily interaction with my kid and I know pretty well whether my kid can learn something from school.

leehoma001 寫道:

It is true that QBS or ESF primary follows the British curriculum.  However, I don't know whether it is exactly the same or have some modifications as QBS doesn't give me the details nor asks the parents to check on the UK websites.

I think we all know that the ESF and SIS are different. It is very diffucult to compare 2 totally different things. Like some people prefer BMW, but others might still stick to Mercedes.

Everyone has their own criteriors, and thus would have different choices.

In my opinion, both BMW and Mercedes are nice cars; and likewise, both ESF and SIS are good schools. I think there must be reasons why they all co-exist here. And the good thing about the present Hong Kong is that, we can still have choices.