Victoria vs ESF

jemima

普通 local family, and we want our kid to have a less stressful childhood (That's why we aim iB/ international). We hope he can have a good command of English and we are trying our best to provide support, at the same time we hope to have an acceptable level of chinese.

應該點揀好呢？thanks everyone 🙏

siden

ESF then 外補中文
Victoria difficult to get in famous IS, unless you aim at VSA(strictly speaking not an IS), and not straight in even though you grad from Vic.

Sausauyeung

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siden

原帖由 CapricornO 於 15-03-04 發表
what is your definition of IS and famous IS??

I'm sorry i use the word "famous". I should not use the word famous.

What i want to say is popular. These schools are popular (then famous) because their school fees are not very expensive with good track record in teaching quality and 校風ok.

These include all ESF primary, CIS, ICS, SIS etc. Nearly all these IS have their own kinder so outsiders are not easy to grap a seat in foundation year or P1. Possible, butn not very easy.

jemima

Thanks for all reply..may I clarify, is the 校風 of EsF or VSa better? I know it's hard to define, but in general, how well do they behave? Thanks for your opinion

cindywy

出色的英文，可接受的中文。既然都已諗定朝咁嘅方向發展不如揀ESF咯，school for the English native speakers.

Jane1983

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都吾係，維幼好多學生都去到你講的famous IS，我認識的都好多，不過，每個家庭都有自己的努力，吾係話入咗去讀就一定掂。

siden

原帖由 Jane1983 於 15-03-04 發表
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都吾係，維幼好多學生都去到你講的famous IS，我認識的都好多，不過，每個家庭都有自己 ...

終於引到你出黎現身說法

你知，呢兩年都難咗，到佢地果屆競爭太大啦。

siden

仲有，普通local family, 唔買debenture, apply good IS priority又冇得加，要同大圍人一齊爭。

Jane1983

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哈哈，年年難過年年過，大家比心機就有機會

supercrazy

I heard that ESF kindergarten has 1 hours of Mandarin session everyday, which is more than i expect. But ESF teaches Simplified Chinese.

SandraLeung2012

Mandarin is only once a week for one hour and just for K2

SandraLeung2012

Victoria 讀完都可以轉番local school， ESF就無得番轉頭

jemima

原帖由 supercrazy 於 15-03-04 發表
I heard that ESF kindergarten has 1 hours of Mandarin session everyday, which is more than i expect. ...

Yes, at this moment, we favor to
Stay in victoria because our kid got used to the school and he likes the teachers. But VSA is
Difficult to get in, whereas ESF seems offer a better chance for its kindie students. So we are torn.

I studied the website, ESf kindie has only for chinese once per week.

siden

原帖由 jemima 於 15-03-04 發表
Yes, at this moment, we favor to
Stay in victoria because our kid got used to the school and he like ...

ESF kinder chinese is bad compared with Vic kinder.

Actually, the teachers in ESF kinder encourage parents to communicate with their kids in english at home, particularly if you're aiming at ESF primary. More than 1 friends with kids in ESF kinder told me teachers asked them to talk to their kids in english during parents meeting.

If you're sure about the IS path, choose ESF. If you're not sure, Vic is better but be prepared you will then lost the priority in being admitted to ESF primary.

luckyveronique

原帖由 SandraLeung2012 於 15-03-04 發表
Mandarin is only once a week for one hour and just for K2

Actually in my girl's ESF kindy, twice Mandarin lessons per week, but don't know how long each lesson takes, and it may differ among each ESF kindergartens

luckyveronique

原帖由 siden 於 15-03-04 發表
ESF kinder chinese is bad compared with Vic kinder.

Actually, the teachers in ESF kinder encourage  ...

我想幼稚園老師這樣說，都是為了小朋友足夠應對K2時的小學面試。但這次收到esf小學錄取信時，上面有講如果是非英語母語的家庭，學校仍然鼓勵家長在家中使用母語同小朋友交流

supercrazy

thanks for your clarification