How to choose between GSIS & QBS ? [複製鏈接]

Alam 寫道:
Dear Christf,

I can't say whether GSIS is very demanding academically as I have no experience with other Int'l school.  But I am happy with my son's progress so far.

The kids will never be ranked in class and I don't think the school will deliberately force somebody out.  Quite a few children don't perform so well still have promotion year after year.  I think the school is typically "nervous" at the English proficiency in Kindergarten and Primary entrance test.  Once you got in primary, not much problem I heard of.

There are also two high IQ boys in my child's class who has emotional problem.  They were trouble makers and bullies in P1 and P2.  Teachers called in their parents almost every week.  Now they are at P4 and situation has improved a lot.  I don't know how they worked it out but it seems the teachers worked together with the parents through these years.

There is one thing I typically like in GSIS is that the school is very low key, so much so that the parents are also very low profile about their wealth.  The children wear Bossini, Chickee Duck, worn out Polo, Giordano etc.  The "annual ball" run by mother committee is also low key and non-compulsory.  Parents can return raffle tickets (for raising school fund) to accounts dept directly without embarrassing the children.  One of my child's classmate lives at Taikooshing and one at Broadcast Drive.  Most children's parents are professional rather than businessman.  In our parents gathering, we all dress very casual.

As far as teachers are concerned, it's a matter of luck.  Some teachers are loving and caring and some are messy or have no patience.  I think it is the same in every school.  The most important thing is how we teach our kids to handle the situation.  C'est la vie!

Hope I can answer your question.  

Alam 寫道:
Komuimama's experience is quite different from what I encountered years ago.  But the school has changed the Kindergarten head years before and may have a different policy.  At my child's day, any kindergarten child with non-native English standard had to leave.  The school viewed it as a "structural problem" which couldn't be fixed because of another year.  They said their statistic showed that these children would struggle very hard in P3 after which was not good to their learning initiative.

As far as ability is concerned, the children may go to next year class or even higher for Maths if they out-perform their classmates.  But only for Maths.  He/She still belongs to his/her year in other subjects.  When the children go to P4,  they will then be divided into two to three ability groups in Maths and Mandarin.  But for Maths, the different ability groups has same syllabus but in different approaches and homeworks.

Dear Wskwok,

Of course my child need extra effort in Mandarin.  GSIS Mandarin is not up to our standard and it only starts at P3 (before 2006, it started as late as P4).  We use English at home because it becomes a habit to talk to him in English.  But my husband and I still use Cantonese with each other and my boy also picks up quite a lot.  I try to remind myself to talk to him in either Mandarin and Cantonese.

Dear Christf,

Please let  me know if you have any further question.