啟思，嶺南和蘇浙 - 小一選校

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Do you mean 嶺南 in Wan chai or in Kowloon?

原帖由 yaya117 於 08-11-5 21:47 發表
我家仔仔收到啟思，嶺南和蘇浙这三所小学的录取通知书，我想请教各位妈咪，有边位熟悉
这几所学校，边间好点滴，请话俾我知好不好啊！多谢啦！ ...

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in Wan Chai

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我都收到啟思和蘇浙的錄取信 ﹐ 但暫時我本人傾向啟思多 d....我比較喜歡活動教育 !

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The 3 school you've mentioned are quite different. If you live in HK island, you'd better choose 嶺南 or 蘇浙. My son was also accepted by 嶺南 and some other private school. I like 嶺南 as the kids there are happy and motivated to learn. The Chinese teachers are all master degree. Their visual art are also good. My relative who is a teacher in an EMI band one school has kindly help me to trace the performance of 8 嶺南 graduate she has taught in her school. Half of them are above average and 4 are outstanding. All of them have good character and all of them love their primary school very much. So I still rank 嶺南 as my top priority but as it is expensive and not famous, my husband want to choose a cheaper tradition boy school (with EMI secondary school). For 蘇浙, the Putonghua is excellent.

原帖由 yaya117 於 08-11-5 21:47 發表
我家仔仔收到啟思，嶺南和蘇浙这三所小学的录取通知书，我想请教各位妈咪，有边位熟悉
这几所学校，边间好点滴，请话俾我知好不好啊！多谢啦！ ...

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yaya117,

check pm please.

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Dear minmin,
Can you kindly pm the information to me as well?

Thanks!

原帖由 minmin 於 08-11-11 20:35 發表
yaya117,

check pm please.

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I went to their open day and find 嶺南 quite good too. The teachers are specialised in one particular subject and it seems that teacher-student relationship is very good given the very small class size. However, same as you I do have concern that it is not famous. But should we simply find "THE ONE" that best fits our kid? I talk to my family and friends, most if not all of them think that "not famous" is an issue which makes me very frustrated.

Do you have any idea how the students are doing recently? I want to convince my hubby.

原帖由 avislai 於 08-11-6 18:53 發表
The 3 school you've mentioned are quite different. If you live in HK island, you'd better choose 嶺南 or 蘇浙. My son was also accepted by 嶺南 and some other private school. I like 嶺南 as the kid ...

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I think "famous" may not be good, or at least good to my kids. The Lingnan graduates in my relatives secondary school are polite and have good conduct. The youngest 2 she has traced are in F.3. Both were commended for Conscientious Work in F.1. The Chinese standard of Lingnan is very good, so as visual arts. They use Chinese as the medium of instruction. So the English standard might not be comparable to English Primary School such as SSCPC or TSL. If you buy the Philosophy of 陸趙鈞鴻, Lingnan is a good choice (but expensive!). Students are happy and enjoy learning and they are in general self-motivated to learn, even in secondary school when parents can hardly do anything to push the kids when they are "old" enough.
To me, money is the biggest concern as I have 2 boys. My boy is very good at Maths but poor in oral expression. So I think putting him in private English Primary School (that has already accept him ) might not be the best choice to him.

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Hi Avislai,

Thanks for your reply!  Good to hear that their students have good conduct!

I understand that Lingnan's students are not that many (12-18 in one grade!)  and therefore in fact their tuition can hardly cover the teachers' salary!

True, it is HK3,400.- per month, but I think we can save the money in oral English or Putonghua class (they have native teachers) as well as painting (art teacher / art work is good!)  I've heard that Dr Luk is committed to run this primary school and probably the kindergarten is funding its operations.

15/16.......  I've got one more year to make up my mind.

Chole

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I just know 啟思. The son of my friend is studying in there. I can't deny that it is good place for making fun. The kids love to study in this school. However, the parents have to bear in mind that the academic standard is lower in comparison with other traditional school or even international school. Also, the MOI is in Chinese. It is not easy for 啟思 kids to seek for another school . Even they can find a new school, they need to spend much to catch up the academic standard.

原帖由 Chole 於 08-11-12 20:40 發表
Hi Avislai,

Thanks for your reply! Good to hear that their students have good conduct!

I understand that Lingnan's students are not that many (12-18 in one grade!) and therefore in fact their tuit ...

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avislai,

我只係問吓yaya117其他學校既問題咋!!!

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原帖由 yaya117 於 08-11-5 21:47 發表
我家仔仔收到啟思，嶺南和蘇浙这三所小学的录取通知书，我想请教各位妈咪，有边位熟悉
这几所学校，边间好点滴，请话俾我知好不好啊！多谢啦！ ...

I don’t know much about Creative and Kiangsu & Chekiang.
But I will definitely put Lingnan as the last choice.

I suggest you may try some “well-known” schools first.
If unluckily no famous school accepts your kid, you may try Lingnan (as last choice).
You may find out some information from the Primary School Profiles of the EDB website that the class size of Lingnan is so so small.
The approved / proposed no. of class of each level is 2, however, end up they only have 1 class for each level, even 10 / 12 students per class.
You may think what it reflects and I don’t think this is the problem of famous vs obscure.

Also, Lingnan secondary school is not a band 1 school. Most of the band 1 secondary schools in Wanchai has its associated primary schools. It also needs to be considered.

One thing I can for sure that this school has no sportsmanship.
I attended an inter-school swimming gala last week.
Lingnan had joined some events in the competition.
However, the whole team left in the middle of the competition and finally they absent from some individual and all relay events.
Other school teams would try their best to get a better result even though they had no confidence to win.
It gave me a bad feeling!

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It sounds foolish to give up more popular primary schools and take Lingnan.  This is why I keep on struggling as my son has also got offers from St. Louis and RC.  Indeed I can find referees who have successfully helped my colleagues's kids to go to SPCPC, TSL and SSCPS but I think 勉強冇幸福 as my son cannot get the place my himself during the interviews.
My sons are studying in Lingnan kindergarten and it is a good school.  In the past I've put TSL as my first choice and put Lingnan as my last choice before I do any research.  I also worry about the class size in Lingnan. But I have learned the reason during their open day.  They said they cut one class to free more special rooms (e.g. computer room, music room, etc.) for the goodness of the student.  But they cut it at the wrong time and coincide with the decreasing birth rate in HK.  Therefore it gives people a bad impression by looking at the class size.  After the expansion of their campus, they can recruit one more class.  However, everyone will think they have problems so they could not have enough students. Dr. Chiu and Lingnan has the philosophy as 重質不重量 and they don't care too much about marketing.  So I think class size is not a problem to me any more and the quality of school and teachers are good.
What I struggle is whether English and PTH is better or Chinese is better for the development of my son.  Lingnan's Chinese is surely good.  For subsidy school, it depends on luck (if you meet a good teacher).
Please correct me if I am wrong.

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原帖由 avislai 於 08-11-13 21:27 發表
It sounds foolish to give up more popular primary schools and take Lingnan. This is why I keep on struggling as my son has also got offers from St. Louis and RC. Indeed I can find referees who have ...

I think every school has its strength, some emphasize on academic, some on sports…
It depends on parents how to choose a suitable school for their child.
To me, I don’t care whether the school uses traditional / active approach as teaching method.
I am realistic, I just see the performance of the students and track records of the school; I care about which secondary schools their graduates go; how is the students’ behavior.
And it can’t be denied that graduates from “famous” primary schools have advantage to go to a good secondary school.
I think nowadays most schools can create a happy learning environment to child.
This is the basic requirement.

Before I attended the aforesaid swimming gala, I also think Lingnan is low profile, but now, I have reservation on it -- Give up some events which they deem will lose and choose to leave -- this kind of behaviour will indeed give a profound effect on students. Maybe the academic level of their students is high (I don’t know), however, the qualities of a person is equally important which can’t be simply learned from books.
It is influenced by family, classmates, teachers……..

If I give bad feeling to the parents whose children are studying in Lingnan, I apologise about that.
This is just my sharing.

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原帖由 timtim852 於 08-11-12 21:06 發表
I just know 啟思. The son of my friend is studying in there. I can't deny that it is good place for making fun. The kids love to study in this school. However, the parents have to bear in mind that t ...

我想這只是一個片面的現象。我有很多朋友的子女都在啟思，他們當中有些的表現的確一般，有些卻非常超卓，其中一個便在升中時考入了St. Paul Co-ed，也有很多入了RC中學部。水平如果真的不夠，又怎能被這些學校取錄呢？

但我的朋友也有提過，由於學校不會給學生有任何壓力，造成某部分小朋友放學後就將學過的東西放諸腦後，家長也不大關心或者沒時間關心子女的學業進度，一日發現跟不上時已經太遲。這個情況在任何學校都有，並不是啟思獨有。

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mother904,
thank you for your update.

For information, Creative's allocation results for the past few years were published at the link below.

http://www.creativeprisch.edu.hk/HTML/chi/cpshome_c.htm

It seems that the overall result is not too bad based on the school names. However, I don't understand why the school has not indicated the number of students allocated to each of the schools listed on the above webpage. Did you friends know the numbers ?

As known, all subjects in Creative are taught in Chinese except English and Bible. Have you known the English standard of their students?

If the English standard is good and the allocation result for P6 is acceptable, it could be a good candidate for backup purpose assumed that the fee is not a problem to the applicant.

原帖由 mother904 於 08-11-14 16:54 發表

我想這只是一個片面的現象。我有很多朋友的子女都在啟思，他們當中有些的表現的確一般，有些卻非常超卓，其中一個便在升中時考入了St. Paul Co-ed，也有很多入了RC中學部。水平如果真的不夠，又怎能被這些學校取錄呢？

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嶺南小學是一所很好的學校

很感激一位熱心的幼稚園家長告知，在「教育王國」「小一選校」中有一群愛子心切的家長在討論我校嶺南小學。高興的是有家長關注到我們的嶺南小學。但當我看到了一位cheerfulmom的家長對我校的描述後，我真的有點耿耿於懷，因為我令學校聲譽受損了。

事緣我校有四名學生參加了10月31日至11月4日一連五天由杭州巿下城區教育局舉辦之第七屆亞太國際口琴節比賽。當中有三名學生又於11月5日參加了港島東區小學游泳比賽。我在11月4日晚上逐一致電參與口琴及游泳比賽的學生家中了解孩子的情況。家長們愛校心切，亦十分有體育精神，並說孩子們已入睡，情況良好，可如期參賽。

比賽當天，我看見孩子們著實有點累，更有一位男生於完成了一項比賽後說感到暈眩，其餘項目不想參加了。孩子是不會裝病的，我立刻叫他休息一下再洗個熱水澡。他也是接力隊員之一，那當然接力比賽也參加不成。我校只報了一項接力比賽。雖然孩子於比賽後已有暖水沖身，不竟頭髮盡濕，而比賽的場地狹窄，座位不足。本校有16人參賽，大會只能提供11個座位，在場除了所有老師及家長沒有座位外，各校也有小朋友沒有座位休息。既然我校能參與的比賽已完成了，我怎可讓那些頭髮全濕，身體不適的孩子在那兒等待至大會結束呢？於是我安排大家早點回校，並通知了有關家長，孩子回到學校時，有的連上樓梯也感氣力不繼，隨後有一位男生更要立刻回家休息。11月6日是學校旅行日，那位男生並沒有出席。當天我實在憂心，後來知道了他並無大礙才鬆了一口氣。

今天我把事情道出，希望能令cheerfulmom明白我提早回校的決定。我任教多年，從不作遲到早退等事，今次令校譽有損，實在難辭其咎，望各位家長明白，也希望大家知道嶺南小學著實是一所很好的學校。

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Thank you for your sincere sharing.
Same as you do, I really feel very uncomfortable to the unfair comments on Lingnan Primary School. I have very good impression to this school and the graduates from this school. I think it is very unfair, without knowing the real reason, and make such a cruel and absolute judgement to a good school. Indeed I am considering to give up the places in some popular traditional primary schools and choose Lingnan for my two sons. I am glad to hear your response and I appreciate you as a responsible teacher to explain the details to us.

原帖由 LauE 於 08-11-18 10:54 發表
很感激一位熱心的幼稚園家長告知，在「教育王國」「小一選校」中有一群愛子心切的家長在討論我校嶺南小學。高興的是有家長關注到我們的嶺南小學。但當我看到了一位cheerfulmom的家長對我校的描述後，我真的有點耿耿於懷， ...

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