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作者: sutent 時間: 12-2-5 18:38 標題: K3 this year, almost all private school accept!

My daughter had 5 famous primary accepted. Now wait for lucky draw, St Cath really very good!

作者: Mabello6 時間: 12-2-6 13:02

Do you know Small B result? Due to I'm very worry that my gal is small B in K1.

作者: marcoli8 時間: 12-2-6 14:23

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可否pm分享下？thx~

作者: superying 時間: 12-2-6 18:52 標題: 回覆：sutent 的帖子

Congratulations!! Would u share more, please??

作者: sutent 時間: 12-2-6 20:05 標題: 回覆：K3 this year, almost all private school accept!

Had good hope, St Francis, St clares, scared heart& Pui ching ,hk true light all accepted.

作者: dais 時間: 12-2-6 21:57

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Wow..Congratulations! May I know what month your girl was born?

作者: sutent 時間: 12-2-7 10:56 標題: 回覆：dais 的帖子

Is a big girl ，before may

作者: jessyleung 時間: 12-2-7 13:20

Wow! Congratulation.
Your daughter is so smart.
My daughter also study K 1 in St. Cat.
Could you share the experience for teaching your child?  Did you let her join the extra activities? Phonics, 公文數...

Thanks your advice.
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作者: joeytwm 時間: 12-2-7 15:25

Congratulation!!!!
My son is going to study K1 in SC coming Sept, could you share more experiences to us? I am searching activities to him too...
Any Chinese / Maths / PHT courses need to study??

Thank you.

作者: sutent 時間: 12-2-7 19:29 標題: 回覆：jessyleung 的帖子

My daughter attend many story & poem competition,also got some champions.
And she learn piano , ballet, ice skating, swimming, math(Europi) , eng ((RWI) ，drawing

作者: joeytwm 時間: 12-2-8 09:23

i planned to join swimming, math(Europi) and drawing too

作者: jessyleung 時間: 12-2-8 13:11

HI Sutent

Thanks your advise.
When your child study the course of Math (Europi) & Eng (RWI)? K1 or K2
Could you share the organisation to learn the story & poem?
coz I want to let my daughter to join the story & poem course.

Thanks

作者: sutent 時間: 12-2-8 19:32 標題: 回覆：jessyleung 的帖子

Poem & story from K1with Champions ,RWI (K2) ,Europi (K1) ,Swimming (K1 summer) & attend competitions with prizes, Drawing (K1) with competitions with prizes,
Ice skating ( alpha)then stop ,since she like swimming so much! Piano (K2) grade 2 , Hong Kong Choir from K1 till now, Ballet (Pre primary) K2 stop but with cert and competitions also. After all these, she will be very confident. And she don't scared .

作者: superying 時間: 12-2-8 20:51 標題: 回覆：sutent 的帖子

U teach very well! I think the merit should also go to mum!

作者: jessyleung 時間: 12-2-9 13:08

Yes, thank your kindness to share the experience. Congratulation!

作者: simsimwong 時間: 12-2-9 17:21

dear sutent,
Which school u will choose then??? My daughter also get SC and MS k1 offer, after see ur post, have more confidence to choose SC!

作者: hkspiderman 時間: 12-2-10 11:59

可惜欠缺dgs, spcc

作者: SEPA 時間: 12-2-10 15:26

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Dear Sutent,

Could you share which organisation to learn the story & poem?

Thank you

作者: sutent 時間: 12-2-11 16:27 標題: 回覆：K3 this year, almost all private school accept!

SPCC & Dgjs the same interview, therefore we choose Dgjs, she pass the first in, but failed in second in. I said no problem because she already very very good , total 7 private school got her now wait for lucky draw result!

作者: cheungoli 時間: 12-2-14 23:44

Can you share where to learn story telling cos I'm looking for the story telling class. Thanks so much.

作者: Cavebaby 時間: 12-2-16 14:34

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My girl will enter ST. Cat K1 in Sep 2012.

May I know which ballet school did you take? Do you think ballet is useful for P1 interview? And what competition or certificate did you take? My girl has learnt ballet sine 2.5 years old. Time is limited, I just want to choose 2-3 activities for her.

作者: Cavebaby 時間: 12-2-16 14:35

Between, do you know the result of other students?

作者: bb@wonderland 時間: 12-2-16 17:43

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When you are in Lower Class, SC would have talk invite all Lower Class Parents, and introduce the result of the P1 admission of last year. You will have a better picture during that time.

作者: sutent 時間: 12-2-16 22:21 標題: 回覆：bb@wonderland 的帖子

我很滿意st cath及女女表現！現有6閒私校收，仲未計無去註冊的二線私小，現等大抽獎，而真他同學都好叻，個個都有一兩間在手，所以羅福道st cath真不錯!

作者: cherylyau_b 時間: 12-2-16 23:35

congraduations !

作者: simsimwong 時間: 12-2-17 10:10

dear sutent,
WHich story & poem you join? I am interested in it too! Thanks!!

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-2-21 14:34

本帖最後由 joeyxlma 於 12-2-24 22:44 編輯

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My girl is also studying in SC K3 (EP class), I think most of the SC K3 students are not bad,

My girl is now registered with APS, KTS, HK True Light (with some others turned down by us). Actually I'm quite pround of her in all the interviews because she is emotionally stable and remainded happy in all her interview.  It is not easy for a kid of 5-6.

As of results, she got in all 2nd rounds (whenever there is, including DGJS, for info we did not attend SPCC) and just have 2 failures: DGJS and GT (well, GT is the first school she interviewed...).  So I believe she is academically sound.

My girl did attended some extracirculmum activities but not too much. For academic side, she is studying English, enopi maths, for others, she is doing French and gymnestic.  She also attended PTH speech competition.for 3 years.
In her profile, she has: English public exam results (Trinity and Cambridge), PTH speech competition prizes, some other prize or public exam certificates for French and gym.

The above are some facts that I'd like to share in order to help the fellow SC parents to understand SC student performance and do some early preparation.

As of opinion:
1. I could not say it is all contributed by SC but SC definately helps, especially the English listening and conversation skills. She definately build up her PTH skills in SC as she is at PE class.
2. Other English course and maths course helps her to enhance her academic confidendence (to prepare for tough questions)
3. Frankly, for competitions, prize, certifcates etc, - I cannot see much direct help in the interviews.
But certain of them such as speach competitions have help very much to build up her confidendce, and the gymatic exercise help her to build up her indenpence and physical condition of course.

作者: joeytwm 時間: 12-2-22 09:48

Thanks for your sharing joeyxlma,

Confidendce and indenpence are very imporant for kids, May I know where can I find those courses??

Thank you

作者: primrose_bb 時間: 12-2-22 13:21

Congrats! So did you help your girl to apply for any "direct funding" school? What's the result?

作者: KT1028 時間: 12-2-23 12:43

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請問可否pm europi(maths) 的電話給我, 因為上網也找不到, thank you.

作者: samsam88 時間: 12-2-23 13:57

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Hi joeyxlma,

May I know where your kid attended the english course ? I would like to enroll english course for my son. Thanks.

作者: bb@wonderland 時間: 12-2-23 15:11

KT1028 發表於 12-2-23 12:43
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請問可否pm europi(maths) 的電話給我, 因為上網也找不到, thank you.

For Enopi Hong Kong: you can click: http://www.enopi.com/Main/Main_Local.aspx?CountryCd=HongKong

There are many Enopi learning centre in Hong Kong, you can find a near one from the above link.

作者: KT1028 時間: 12-2-23 17:26

THX A LOT, bb@wonderland

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-2-23 22:34

primrose_bb 發表於 12-2-22 13:21
Congrats! So did you help your girl to apply for any "direct funding" school? What's the result?

Yes. Accepted by 2 (but I turned them down), waiting for 1.

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-2-24 00:02

In my last post, I just list out some facts.  Today I'd like to share more.

Firstly, I'd like to explain why I list out as much fact I could. I use this approach because as a BK fans (especially in K3 interview time), I found that there is a problem in doing research and seeking opinion on BK. It is becasue I find that quite a number of parents will answer your questions or share their feeling/ opinion but you never know their answers are based on what kind of expectations.  For example, if one said XXX school or class that is "good", it is not easy to know if it is really good, or just because that parent has different expectation with mine. (Remember there are always many parents with different expectation with you on BK so it is a very important point that you have to pay attention to.)

Frankly in the process of K3 interviews, I always wonder if my kid is well-prepared enough?  It is because I cannot train her to be "smart" but at least I get her well-prepared, especially academically. I believe this is also a topic that fellow SC parents may be interested - what academic level that my kid has to achieve to prepare for the interviews?

My sharing is not going to give an answer, but at least you got an real life example that one kid achieve XXX academic result, the interview results is YYY.  Hope that more BK parents can share their experience on this basis which will make comparison more objective.

For additional information,
1. As to English level: She has done Cambridge starter at 15 shields and Trinity level 2 distinction.
2. As to Maths: she is doing level 10 e.nopi maths.
3. Very confidence in Eng listening and speaking - no problem with SC kids, I suppose.

I think she is quite well-prepared with her English and Maths level for her interviews.

Hope the abvoe can help.

作者: ac917 時間: 12-2-24 11:36

sutent 發表於 12-2-7 19:29
My daughter attend many story & poem competition,also got some champions.
And she learn piano , bal ...

Hi Sutent,

Could you pls share more information about RWI?

Thanks

作者: sutent 時間: 12-2-24 13:00 標題: 回覆：ac917 的帖子

It's very good in phonics, ABC pathways, Q Q club & one more company had. Standard price in all centre !

作者: sutent 時間: 12-2-26 10:39 標題: 回覆：sutent 的帖子

My daughter also Trinity grade 1&2 distinction ,enopi grade 10 but no others.

作者: lawchiwing 時間: 12-2-27 20:49

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Yes yes i also heard that this year the admission result at St. Cat is very good. Your daughter is so so so smart.

作者: winbun 時間: 12-2-28 09:54

joeyxlma 發表於 12-2-24 00:02
In my last post, I just list out some facts. Today I'd like to share more.

Firstly, I'd like to ex ...

Your daughter is really smart ! Did your daughter take any cambridge course before exam ? Also, did she attend any Mandarin speech course before attending the competition ? If yes, can you advise the learning centres ? My boy is very shy, I don't expect he can get any prizes in the competition but just want to train up his confidence so that he can speak more loudly in front of others.

作者: Cardiff 時間: 12-3-3 10:33

我只幫兒子報考三所小學，全部成功，多謝SC的老師們!

作者: Cavebaby 時間: 12-3-4 01:25

Thanks for your information!

作者: marcoli8 時間: 12-3-4 01:33

Cardiff 發表於 12-3-3 10:33
我只幫兒子報考三所小學，全部成功，多謝SC的老師們!

Hi~ 介唔介意分享下報考了邊三所小學！我小朋友暑假後將會入讀K1!Thx~

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-3-5 04:25

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1. English - Other than SC training, she has attended English Course. Pls check PM for details.

PS;
I am glad that my kid has taken the Cambriege exam becuase:
(a) I can cross check her level objectively.  By that reason, it s not limit to Cambridge but also any other exam/test/course as long as it is objective and you can cross-check the kid's level with his/her peers group.

(b) I recommend K3 kids to practise Cambridge Mover (practise, but not taking the exam, FYI my girl does not take this level of Cambridge exam also,she only sit for Cambridge Starter) as the oral part of Cambriedge Mover is quite in the same style as the Interview questions. (Actually for the same reason, I'm glad that my kid takes e.nopi maths because it has a "critical paper" which are exercise for logics, sequences, etc. which are also quite the same style as the interview quetsions).

Howeve, I personally don't like courses solely for Cambridge examinations.  It is because when I talked with a number of centres which offers such course, I found that are too examination oriented. I'd like her to do Cambridge for English, but not do English for Cambridge (i.e. to learn English up to Cambridge XX level standard, but not learn those content/syllabus to fit in good result in Cambridge exams), afterall I think a Cambridge Eng Test certificate itself don't help much for the P1 applications.

Of course I will get my girl prepare for the Cambridge exam style by doing part papers. Past papers are available at British council (but very expansive).  I have heard that there are some other exercises in the PRC book shops which are cheaper.

2. PTH - She is in PTH-Eng class so she does not need to train up with her PTH.  But she definately has to be trained for the speech competition purposes.  So I will find a personal tutor for her about 1-2 months before the competition.

PS: Personally, the ranking of compeition prizes are not important - but by getting some recognition by prizes, self-confidence is much much build up, especially for shy child.  So I do suggest you can consider not only speech competition, but also any others that your kid is doing really good.  It is not limit to a competition, may be performance, light examination, etc... That really help

作者: momo627 時間: 12-3-5 05:18

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hi, I am looking for infomation for some courses for Cambridge Englsih test and Enpoi Maths, I have checked with ABC Pathways and not sure it is good or not. Would you mind sharing your experience and which schools you take the courses?

I am a bit worrry about his Chinese and PHT as we are having Eng/Cantonese stream, and I would like to train up his drama and speech skills. But he is now in PN and will go to SC in coming Sept K1, is it too early to start all?

Hope you can give me some advice if you know any good schools or private tutuorials that can provide the above course and give me some suggestions when he should start taking difference courses.

Thank you so much.

作者: momo627 時間: 12-3-5 05:31

miss one point, how about where to learn phonics? Thanks.

作者: chilokbb 時間: 12-3-6 00:56

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joeyxlma

I am also looking for Trinity , cambridge english courses as well as PTH speech competition course information. Pls pm the centres to learn. Thx

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-3-6 03:22

momo627 發表於 12-3-5 05:18
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hi, I am looking for infomation for some courses for Cambridge Englsih test an ...

My girl do English course, that is a kid learning centre mainly for English (now it has PTH).  Will PM you which centre she is in.  She learns phonics here. This centre gives quite an all-rounded English training, a bit more concentrated on phonics at kid's KG stage because it is the best way to let the kid familier with the language and go a lot of reading.

For whether the centre u mentioned is good, it is really difficult to tell, especially my kid is not studying there, and I did not do research on it.  But before enrolling your kid in one course, it is always good to talk to the staff there.  But please do talk to the senior staff. They can tell you much more, such as their approach, reason behind their program arrangement, etc.  You may not have much idea before you talk with them, but when you shop around some more learning centres, you can shape that out. Fpr me, I'll ask for advices, but I also do this kind talking myself (actually myself + husband) so that we do have personal feelings. For the centre that my girl is studying, I know it is not perfect but I buy its way.

For PTH training, I'm sorry that I do not have much advice.  It is because my girl started PTH with PTH native speaker as class teacher from PN (not in SC) - I must say she have quite a strong foundation in PTH from there - and she continues her PTH at SC (she is doing PE class).  I just let her have private tutor when there is speech competition, the main purpose of which is to train up her speech skill.

I believe if that language becomes everyday's life, he/she will learn it naturally.  And that's also why SC students are generally good at English as SC has high level of NET teachers and they are good at teaching (you know English native speakers may good at English (oral) but not all of them are good at teaching kids).

For drama, I think it depends whether your kid is interested in it. But my experience is that kid cannot do drama too early.  I cannot tell the reason but it just do not work out for small kids.

Hope these could help.

作者: yoyococo 時間: 12-3-6 22:48 標題: 回覆：joeyxlma 的帖子

Can u pm me the centre that your girl join?thx

作者: momo627 時間: 12-3-6 23:57

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so many thanks for your detail advice. yes, if we can get the offer for PE stream, I don't have to worry about PHT. Some moms tell me to try the at the podium of my home, they said it is good, and just let him to "touch" PHT when he is small and I can find better one or have private tutorials when he is in K2 or later.

And thanks for your pm, I will try and phone and ask for details.

It is really great as I get lots of advice and information for moms in BK, really thanks you all and I get less frighten, really, from knowing none to getting some idea, thank you so much.

作者: silverbell 時間: 12-3-7 10:54

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your information is very useful for new parents of SC.

My kid is in K1 and I plan to let her start with enopi Math and Cambridge starter exam. Could you recommend the learning centers that you have tried? I am thinking about an enopi center in which the teachers are native speakers, but the traffic takes lots of time. Really want to know a better option.

Thanks for your help.

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-3-7 19:18

silverbell 發表於 12-3-7 10:54
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your information is very useful for new parents of SC.

For English learning centre that my girl is joining, pls check PM.
Of course there are a lot of good centres, my advise is that you have to talk with the target centre yourself to get an idea of their approach and method, for details, pls see the previous posts and I'm not repeating much.

For maths training, the centre that my girl is joining is not taught by native speaker, and personnally I believe it is not necessary. It's because I think her English training is good enought. As it is a maths training, no need to strick to English native speaker. Therefore to my personal advise, you have no need to travell a long long way only becasue of the native speaker. Regular long travelling hours is definately a burden to young kids - you may not be aware of it at the beginning - when if you find him/her don't like that course or not doing well in that course, think of whether is it due to their physical condition. Kids are just too young to tell the reason behind their performance.

作者: silverbell 時間: 12-3-8 09:45

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Thanks for your information and sharing.

作者: oxwinnie 時間: 12-3-11 21:35

My boy is also studying in st cat lower class now and I want to know the english center your daughter studying. Since my boy is a small b (born on November). so he cannot catch up the Cambridge exam before interview.

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-3-11 22:45

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oxwinnie 發表於 12-3-11 21:35
My boy is also studying in st cat lower class now and I want to know the english center your daughte ...

Dear owwinnie, for the name of the English Cenre, pls check PM.

I found quite a lot of parents asking me which centre my girl is going.  I definately don't mind to share so I'll reply in PM asap.  However, I'd like to stress I don't mean SC English level is not good enough so that I let my girl to study English outside.

Back to about 3 yrs before, when I'm shopping for English course for her, my target is get her take as much Cambridge exam as possible before the interview (for enriching the profile, of course).  Though I do talk with the program director in this learning centre, I still get a wrong impression that the centre will teach her to take the Cambridge Exam as a target.  Thereafter when I read her class work I found it is quite different from my believe but I just let her continue becx she seems to achieve a quite good standard of her age.

Frankly during these 3 years I do try to find other centres (but not very hard) for course that target quite solely for Cambridge.  But when I talk with the teachers in the other centres, it just happened that they do not really offer those I already get from this centre.

As a result, haha.... after 3 yrs, quite departing from original plan...I just let her take the Cambridge Starter (and preparing for Mover). But the point is that I think her English level already convinced me that she is well prepared for P1 interview (English part).  I believe that is enough.

作者: KellyChim 時間: 12-3-12 13:56

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hello! joeyxlma, would you pls pm the details to us also with thanks.

作者: cotyleung 時間: 12-3-12 21:44 標題: 回覆：joeyxlma 的帖子

Hi joeyxlma,
Please check PM.

Thanks!

作者: porporwong 時間: 12-3-12 23:01

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Dear Joeyxima, please check PM.

Thanks a lot!

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-3-13 01:18

I found certain parents are concerning when to start getting their child to the English/Maths courses.  The following is sharing of my believe and experience.

English
I think my girl started the English lesson outside SC quite early (don't actually remember but I think it is about K1).  As previously mentioned, we are at that moment like her to take as much Cambridge exam as possible before P1  (of course plan changed later, haha). As a matter of fact,  we got another reason.  It is because she has studied in PN class (not in SC, of cox) which is taught by NET but using the way of flash cards + phonex.  Flash cards are very helpful tool for todders because they simply have to learn by memory and no other skills required (and young babies are very very good at that).  However, I understand that nowadays English should not learn by just memory (like our good old days...)  And we found her quite reliied on memoy for her English reading at that moment.

Therefore we decided that  she NEEDED a change (concentrated on Phonex training). We did it at K1 as she has to change from the KG that she studied PN to SC for K1, with the hope that she feel everything changed and she will be mroe willing to accept the new teaching style. That's why we do that at about K1.

Without such reason, personally, I don't think child should start extra English training whe he/she is a todder - you may if you wish - but kids pick up so quick that I think even if child start a bit later will catch up very qutickly.  The point is that young todders may not be physically fit for too much extra courses. My girl is Feb girl and her phycial condition is alright.  But she still become tierd when she is back from training centre.  So parents are advise not to overlook the engergy that required for the course.

Maths
Personally no need to start very early.  It is becx I think todders are not mental ready for learn concetual stuff.  And I beieve you don;t need too advance Mahts for the P! admission. Smple 連加／連減/加減混合 will be sufficient．

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-3-13 01:32

porporwong 發表於 12-3-12 23:01
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Dear Joeyxima, please check PM.

seems not yet have your PM?

作者: Laimui827 時間: 12-3-15 01:02

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Can u mind to pm me the centre which your daughter joined?

Thanks a lot!

作者: Happy小米 時間: 12-3-15 09:09

每個b都是unique, 天資發展各有不同, 唔好諗住跟人地上既course, 讀一樣既學校就有相當既成果, 我有兩個b同見其他朋友既b就好明白了.

家庭教育最重要!

作者: hecabb 時間: 12-3-15 12:25

我上星期去咗p1入學準備分享會，校方share2010-2011小一結果，私校同直資嘅result都好好~~可以話top tier嘅學都有一班係SC畢業嘅~希望我囡囡出年都有好嘅成績

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-3-16 01:10

Happy小米發表於 12-3-15 09:09
每個b都是unique, 天資發展各有不同, 唔好諗住跟人地上既course, 讀一樣既學校就有相當既成果, 我有兩個b同 ...

Totally agree!

作者: princessisjudy 時間: 12-3-20 17:24

totally agree家庭教育最重要! My friend got admission from DGS and SPCC and she is not studied in famous KG, she is just attend normal KG near home only

作者: whychan777 時間: 12-3-21 11:41

joeyxlma 發表於 12-3-7 19:18
For English learning centre that my girl is joining, pls check PM.
Of course there are a lot of go ...

hello joeyxlma..........

would you pls pm the details for eng learning centre to me?

Many thanks.........

作者: sofiamama 時間: 12-3-25 00:57

joeyxlma,

Pls also PM information regarding the english learning centre. Thx

作者: Agenda 時間: 12-3-26 12:26

Hi,

Would you mind PM the details of the learning centre to me?

Thanks

作者: ll3314 時間: 12-3-27 13:55

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Hi ! joeyxlma, would you pls pm the details to us also with thanks.

作者: momo627 時間: 12-3-30 06:04

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would you min d pm the details of the landuage class. Thanks a lot.

作者: 大白豬 時間: 12-3-30 10:17

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Would you please pm the language centre info to me? Thanks.

作者: yltung 時間: 12-3-30 13:26

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joeyxlma,

Pls also PM information regarding the english learning centre. Thx

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-4-3 19:40

I notice quite a lot of parents are interest in the learning centre that my girl is attending - I absolutely have no problem to share - but I like to emphase that:

The most most important part in raising your child is how you devote yourself in raising him/her up, This absolutely do not linked directly with how many courses that you enroll him/her to. but to a quality time that you spent with your child. REMEMBER, quality is much important than quanity. Also consistent involvement is also very important.

Thanks god I have a very good husband who involve no less than myself in my girl eduction (if not more) including attending P1 talks, determining which school to apply and reason why, determining which school to turn down (believe me it is a hard decision), etc...

So please do more emphase on this part when you are thinking of put your child to a learning centre.

You can also refere to a great article in "小一選校”written by Ian.

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-4-3 19:59

HI, anyone that asked questions but I have not answer, pls PM me.

作者: lovebobo318 時間: 12-4-4 23:41

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作者: dingmanhoe123 時間: 12-4-6 23:52

It is happy to hear your girl have just a good result!

Could you also please PM the english learning centre and maths learning centre to me?
Thanks a lot.

作者: yoyococo 時間: 12-4-7 11:48 標題: 回覆：joeyxlma 的帖子

Please pm me the English centre thanks

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-5-3 14:01

One of the parents ask me about (1) How to choice primary school and (2)  tips for P1 interviews.

I think it maybe worthwhile to share.  Please note that most of the followings are based on personal opinion and experience.  Also thie following is not in very good order, However, should anyone like to clarify/have further questions, don't hesitate to ask me.

Primary School Selection
- You have first to understand there are boardly 3 classes of primary schools available for public according to their source of funding, i.e.  Private (私校), DSS (直資) & Govt' (官校/律貼).

- Assuming u are concerning how to choose Private schools (私校) or DSS schools (直資). When I make P1 application for my girl, my considerations are (not in order of importance):
(1) Secondary schools support or track records for good Secondary school application result and the reasons,
(2) English level
(3) reputation (especially among those u trust that they'r telling the truth but not standard answer, and also from those who have the same expectation with you - or at least u know their expectation);
(4) reputation of the principal
(5) teaching methods,
(6) distrince from home or if u prepare to move if admitted by it.

My setlection steps are:
(A) shortlist all private & DSS schools
(B) selected those are English Media eg SFA/WKF; or those P school which is 直屬 of a 2nd schools that is within top 100 secondary shcools e.g. Hong Kong True Lights/ Good Hope/ 聖心/ St. Clare's/ DGS/ SPCC; or those P schools with good track records of good % of Band 1 secondary school entry e.g. APS/KTS/TSL/SFA  or others that has good reputation e.g. HKUGA.
(C) study these P schools in details by - MUST attend its P1 admission talk whereever it is available - also talk with existing parents or other reliable sources such as 補習社老師, etc.－　you may also compare the homeworks of different target prmary schools to find out their academic level.

Actually after Steps (A), (B) and part of step (C) above, I left with around 11-12 schools on my list.  I think you have to complete your shortlist perferrable before the peak season of application.

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-5-3 14:06

本帖最後由 joeyxlma 於 12-5-3 14:21 編輯

To prepare for the interviews:

(i) build up the academic foundation of the child (you can start this very early even since K1-K2)

(ii) build training on academic and interview exercises into weekly routine e.g. go to English centre and enoopi for English and Maths academic; do exercise for interview questions format (such as story telling/drawings/情景問題 /模擬面試) at a specific time every week (pls use a very interesting way so that the child will not aware that it is a training), do exercise on Cambridge mover at a specific time every week, do exercise for heat P1 question formate such as  - actually I cannot manage it well n it is my suggestion only

(iii) preparing portfolio.
After the P1 admission battle, I don't think it is very important. The more important thing is the School result report, especially SC's report should have good creditiablity. So make sure she is doing good at school.  However I will not suggest you to down grade your attention to the portfolio but you must understand how the school use it. To my own opinion, it is for the shcool to find out (1) the child's character and (2) how the parents 栽培 their child.  Afterall, good preparation of portfolio will give you a feeling of good preparation.

(iv) shortlist those I'd apply, and be aware of the timing of P1 admission talk for EVERY shcool that u want to apply whenever there is one - good for understanding the style of the school

(v) build up a time plan by date for the date of admission talk, application, interview date, announcemnet date, registration date - I do it with an excel table

(vi) very very important to plan the time of submitting the application. Most of the schools have the same interview dates (in 2011 about 10 shcools are in the same weekend). Nearly all schools will arrnage the interview date and time according to the time when they receive the submission (except fot TSL where you can choose a date between Sat and Sun), e.g. last yr I submit my applicaiton to KTS and DGS very early so it their interviews did not crash with others and there is ONLY ONE interview on those days. But I submit the form for SPCC and APS quite late so that they crash with others and I've given them up.

(vi) do good rest and keep the interviews as a preseat thing which enhance the family relationship (between husband and wife, and between parents and child) -  try to do the preparation work and P school seletion together with your spouse, try not to ask what are the questions after doing the interviews

(vii) before the interviews, gather as much as past questions a possible and study their trends, u will found out for some schools, they will repeat the questions/type of questions every year (e.g. Good Hope will do doodles, APS will ask your child if they like the school and the reason). Do also aware if there are any questions for the parents and do good preparation for that (e.g. 2nd interview of KTS is actually interviewing the parents, not the child)

(viii) just before the interview date, try to bring your child to the school or somewhere nearby so that they will think they are familiar with it (but actually I do not do this a lot), at least surf on the web-site of it, and let your child recoginise the principal of that school. The purpose of this to rising the interest of the child to this school.  I believe if the child has high interest in the school, they will do well in the interview.

(viii) before the interview date, plan carefully the travelling routine and make sure that there is some buffer and some good rest between interviews (I give up SPCC due to too rush for the next interview and of cox I believe my girl has very low chance of being admitted by it);

(ix) try to be keep the child happy and relax on the date of interview and the day before - do not plan too much work, sufficent rest, do not plan activities that will make her feel unhappy, do not scold her if possible on these two special days.

作者: seamama 時間: 12-5-5 17:10 標題: 回覆：joeyxlma 的帖子

Thanks for sharing! Just wanna know how to compare the homework of different primary school? I really want to know more about the academic level of the school, but I don't know where to get the info except for asking in EK.

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-5-7 15:36

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I cannot remember if I've mentioned in my previous post, I know some parents will do that and I'm also trying to do so, but I'm still in the process.

I think you can:
1. Find out if you have friends (or friends of friends) who have children studying in the target schools
2. Ask the tutor in the 補習社
3. Compare some works the school put on web-site (but not much) or works shows in the open days
4. You may also compare the text books used

作者: wingsze23 時間: 12-5-16 00:16

本帖最後由 wingsze23 於 12-5-16 00:18 編輯

Delete wrong post.....

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作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-5-25 22:18

本帖最後由 joeyxlma 於 12-5-25 22:18 編輯

Thanks for those readers who read my post. I'd like to share because I think it may be good to know more of SC K3 student. I must say actually I am not a very good example and my girl result is not top at all. I believe there are many other parents in SC who are doing much better than me. Hope more parents can share their experience.

作者: lingling06 時間: 12-5-25 23:58

Hello, joeyxlma

I can say that your sharing is really very useful to us ,even though my elder son is also a current k3 student. Which school will you choose for your girl finally? I finally decide to give up SFA offer, still struggling between APS and KTS. How about you?

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-5-26 21:35

Upto today, I think I will chose KTS. It is becase KTS suit her more and think that she will like to go to school. I hope that in her primary school stage she love to go to school and then hope this feeling will extend to those year after primary school.

作者: login_mc 時間: 12-5-29 22:18

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Hi joeyxlma, do u mind sharing your girl's eng learning centre? am very interested in RWI too, but st cat is not using RWI at sch rite? would there be a period of confusion to adapt another phonics theory for your daughter? kindly share, thx~

作者: dingmanhoe123 時間: 12-6-1 15:33

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Thanks for sharing info. Could u also pm me the english learning centre to me too? thanks

作者: angelchu2012 時間: 12-7-15 09:03

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Hi may I have the english course information many many thanks

作者: isamchan 時間: 12-7-19 14:25

Joeyxlma, can you pm me your ENG learning center also? Wonder what's the difference between Enopi ENG centers. Thanks!

作者: agaperamy 時間: 12-7-26 10:28

Hi Joeyxlma, could you please also pm your Eng learning centres? Many many thanks.

作者: littlecheuk 時間: 12-7-26 12:33

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Hi joeyxlma

My daughter will attend K1 at St Cat in the coming Sep. I am also looking for the following private tutor or training centre for her activities. Can you pm me the names that you recommend? many thanks.

1) English Centre: Trinity , cambridge english courses etc
2) Story telling/poem both in Eng and Cantonese
3) Speech training both in Eng and Cantonese and Mandarin

Many thanks

Littlecheuk

作者: bbchung2009 時間: 12-7-26 17:49

Hi joeyxlma,
My son will attend K1 at St Cat in the coming Sep, please PM me too. Thx so much!

作者: 花仔媽咪 時間: 12-7-27 01:48 標題: 回覆：bbchung2009 的帖子

我知有st cat老師教的課程，有需要pm我！

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作者: bbchung2009 時間: 12-7-30 19:14

There are 3 E.nopi (MATH) center in MOS, i would like to know which Center is better? Pleae help!!!!! Thx so much!

作者: applered525 時間: 12-8-13 15:23

Hi joeyxlma,

My son will go to SC K1 after this summer, same as Littlecheuk, I am also looking for the following training centre:

1) English Centre: Trinity , cambridge english courses etc
2) Story telling/poem both in Eng and Cantonese
3) Speech training both in Eng and Cantonese and Mandarin

Appreciate if you could pm me the name and contact info of the centre. Thanks so much!

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作者: Kat3Y 時間: 12-8-27 17:34

Hi joeyxlma,

My girl will study in St Cat K1 this year. May I know where your kid attended the English & Enopi Math course ? Thanks.

作者: simsimwong 時間: 12-8-28 12:40

Hi joeyxlma,
My girl is k 1 this sep, can u pm me also?
Thx!

作者: joeyxlma 時間: 12-9-4 18:33

本帖最後由 joeyxlma 於 13-3-7 15:52 編輯

Dear All sorry for the late reply but I think I've just go thro all your pms. Should I miss any pls let me know,

As said, there is a very interest thing that most of the pm is asking which ENGLISH centre my girl is going to. Frankly I write this post quite a long time ago so I forgot part of the content but I think my writting on ENGLISH must out-weight the other which lead to such enquiries.

I must remind the fellow parents that the training is not only for English. Any fruitful education training must bsed on a very solid family triaing that a lot ot itme and love have been devoted to your honey.

Cheers to all!

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