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

christf 寫道:
HannahChan,

My boy was lowered one grade from P2 in QBS to P1 in GSIS because of the difference in age policy of the two schools.

After two months' study at GSIS, I noticed that there are in fact some differences between two schools.

QBS seems to have a more systematic and structural way of building up the kids' ability in English literacy, e.g. in reading and spelling of which the system is very effective in handling kids with a wide range of abilities.

GSIS also has some kinds of systematic and structural way but it is not as detailed as QBS's and it seems that it is more suitable for capable kids while it would be a little bit difficult for less capable kids to catch up with others.

GSIS seems to be more focus on academic, i.e English and Maths while QBS has a more balanced curriculum. For example, it seems that the portion of technology, art & craft in QBS is slightly greater than GSIS.  

I attended the Parent Consultation Day on last Wednesday and had a chance to meet with the class teacher to discuss about my boy's progress as well as to see all the works of my boy done at school. From the detailed content of my boy's work done at school, I noticed that GSIS was really a little bit more demanding than QBS.  Roughly speaking, my personal judgement is that GSIS's expectation in academic achievement for year 1 kids is about half year higher than QBS.

Please note that the above are only based on my limited experience in GSIS together with my personal feeling for your reference only. It might not totally reflect the fact.

Christf



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HannahChan 寫道:
chrisf,

Since your little boy was lowered one grade (from P2 in QBS to P1 in GSIS), do you see the difference in the level of the curriculum?  Is P1 in GSIS really equivalent to P2 in QBS?  Or P1 in GSIS is pretty much the same as P1 in QBS?

Hannah