國際幼稚園入本地名小學

pc228

想讓小孩讀國際學校幼稚園（>90% 一條龍），但同時補習去試試考本地名直私。
請問有無過來人可以分享一下成功或失敗的例子？要補甚麼？

謝謝！

pc228

Thanks for all your reply! Anyone knows if Victoria prepares kids well enough for interview at elite local primary schools? If not, how can parents supplement ? Thanks so much again

JW123

pc228 發表於 18-5-17 07:22
We share similar views and this is very helpful. May I know which is kindergarten your child went t ...

My child is now in local kinder K2 and got the offer from IS grade 1 in coming school year. My plan is to take IS offer as back up and apply private/dss same time but I’m worried how private/dss school weighting application from those studying in IS

pc228

ILikeToDream 發表於 18-5-17 01:51
Have been through your struggle and wanted to have IS as back up while pursuing top DSS/ private sch ...

We share similar views and this is very helpful. May I know which is kindergarten your child went to? Mind pm and talk more? Thanks

ILikeToDream

Have been through your struggle and wanted to have IS as back up while pursuing top DSS/ private schools. Finally decided to stay in IS kindergarten (or semi IS in ur perspective) til K3. At the end lucky enough to get into an elite DSS school and got offers from a few other prestigious DSS schools too.
From my opinion, after gong thru rounds of interviews from different DSS/ private schools, I believe both attitude/ personality and academics particularly language abilities like someone mentioned above of the child counts. I myself was brought up in local schooling, I believe IS can always provide better environment to groom a person’s critical thinking, creativity, expressiveness, soft skills etc, not to mention overall English ability. Those are the things can’t be trained in tuition class, while solid knowledge like grammar, spelling, Chinese words, math can always be easily supplemented through tuition. Therefore I decided to let my child stay in non local kindy and go to tuition classes instead. Fortunately it works out.  

So that also leads to the question of what kind of person ur daughter tend to be? And If you stay in Victoria, can VSA be your back up?

That’s my two cents hope it helps.

pc228

hapi_mami 發表於 18-5-16 17:15
I think it can't live up to our expectation. We expect the school can provide more resources for th ...

Hello hapi_mami, mind pm me the name of the IS you feel a bit disappointed about?

hapi_mami

一手爛牌 發表於 18-5-16 17:24
That’s great you make up your mind, still have time to get well prepared for the coming interviews ...

Thank you very much!

一手爛牌

hapi_mami 發表於 18-5-16 17:18
We'll go back to lucky draw. Indeed there's a backup local primary school for him as he has enough  ...

That’s great you make up your mind, still have time to get well prepared for the coming interviews. Good luck (emoji)

hapi_mami

一手爛牌 發表於 18-5-16 13:16
Will you participate lucky draw? Or will you go back to IS in worst scenario
It’s really difficul ...

We'll go back to lucky draw. Indeed there's a backup local primary school for him as he has enough scores to enter it without much difficulty. We'll also try other DSS and private schools but we don't have too much confidence in passing in the interviews.

hapi_mami

貝珠 發表於 18-5-16 00:40
Ic , will u consider other IS with different curriculum? Eg AP, IPC, British curriculum etc ?

Do  ...

I think it can't live up to our expectation. We expect the school can provide more resources for the kids, or at least provide more channels for kids to explore more but I think it's a bit disappointing to me.
We'll opt for the LS pathway now, so MAY one day consider going back to LS when we feel there's a need and he is competent for that.

siden

RunningPig 發表於 18-5-16 09:55
還有另一例子，SC -> ESF -> DBSPD，但也不是在 ESF 讀 K。

My friend had followed  this path

His dad was old boy

He could catch up with DPSPD P1 chinese because St Cat gave him fair Chinese foundation before he was admitted to ESF Yr1

一手爛牌

hapi_mami 發表於 18-5-15 23:48
We have similar plans for our son too (he's in K2 in IS but we struggle to give up his Y1 offer and ...

Will you participate lucky draw? Or will you go back to IS in worst scenario
It’s really difficult to plan

RunningPig

pc228 發表於 18-5-15 23:55
Thanks! But Victoria and ISF are not really IS per se in my opinion? They are half half local/IS I  ...

還有另一例子，SC -> ESF -> DBSPD，但也不是在 ESF 讀 K。

siden

poonseelai 發表於 18-5-16 07:18
如你有這些担憂或要求， 传统學校会適合D

Agree

siden

penp0319 發表於 18-5-16 07:29
有些有的！

少之又少

penp0319

如果一心上local school, 唔好入 IS Kindergarten, 雖然外補，但始終training 唔同！又學校又外補，費用大，小朋友一樣辛苦！

penp0319

siden 發表於 18-5-15 23:40
真正嘅IS kinder, 邊有k3架？

有些有的！

poonseelai

hapi_mami 發表於 18-5-16 00:07
I believe we are both very traditional parents when it comes to education. We want to have a better ...

如你有這些担憂或要求， 传统學校会適合D

貝珠

hapi_mami 發表於 18-5-16 00:07
I believe we are both very traditional parents when it comes to education. We want to have a better ...

Ic , will u consider other IS with different curriculum? Eg AP, IPC, British curriculum etc ?

Do u find IB not suitable to your kid? Or to your expectation only ?

hapi_mami

pc228 發表於 18-5-15 23:51
What made u give up IS p1 offer?

I believe we are both very traditional parents when it comes to education. We want to have a better grasp of what our kid has been doing and learning. Sadly, we're not very convinced of this at this moment. Most importantly, we're not yet very convinced of the PYP curriculum. When compared with the GCSE in the past, we feel that PYP may not guarantee our kid a solid foundation to pave his way to MYP and even DP. Kids will have to be very independent and competent in self learning in order to succeed in their studies. We foresee that a lot of COSTLY private tutoring will be needed to help him cope with his further studies in IS. Plus, we both are not confident in helping him with his studies once he encounters difficulties as we both were brought up under local schooling. With all the above concerns, it seems to us that it's not worth spending sooo much to put him to IS, unless we will 100% put him to study abroad sometime later.