My kid is studying in Victoria PN but applied SC, KV and York K1 as we have no plan to go International Primary. To be honest, I do not see the chance from SC and KV since my kid is "small boy" who performed badly in the interview. Similar to other parents, we also got the offer from York but also heard a lot bad words for this kg in this forum. If there are only Victoria and York available, we really don't know which one should I pick. Hope we can share other parents view on this situation.
Victoria should be better. I have 2 friends who have kids studying or graduated there. Eng and Mandarin are very well trained there. Even though you don't plan to go Intl primary, I think your child can go to many good local primary.
I choose Victoria. My friend is a primary school teacher (tradition and famous primary school). She told me that P1 students who graduated from Victoria can pick up the homework easilier than others did. And Victoria students are willing to answer question and brave to try.
原帖由 MountainView 於 08-11-21 10:01 發表
Victoria should be better. I have 2 friends who have kids studying or graduated there. Eng and Mandarin are very well trained there. Even though you don't plan to go Intl primary, I think your child c ...
But can they be granted to traditional local pri school smoothly? I wonder allocation result are suitable for Int School.....
http://www.victoria.edu.hk/nursery-&-kindergarten/files/2007-2008-vnk-to-pri-one-statistics.pdf
Radiomama, Thanks for your sharing as I think it is informative and helpful. My kids are just joining playgroup at Victoria. Honestly, comparing international schools and traditional schools is always a debate. Finding the best school for our kids is quite mission impossible - we can only try our best. After having read quite some discussions and information, I still see it as a bet as it is really challenging to "trully understand" your kids and all school especially for the working moms.
do you mean your kid has to learn Pinyin outside instead of the school? It seems that we may require to pick some external English class as a supplement if we keep studying in Victoria.
It is a phonic class(jolly phonic) actually. Last year, I was worried that my son should work hard otherwise he would be left behind. (Since he is the smallest boy in the class!) So I enrolled the phonic class for him. And then I found that he did quite well and his reading ability is strengthened.
"I like letters" This is a comment from his "self-evaluation" recently.
Most of his classmates join various interesting classes--drama & speech (both Putonghua & English), drawing, swimming, dancing etc. And we'd choose some classes conducted in English! It's effective!
原帖由 bbnic 於 08-11-22 01:46 發表
do you mean your kid has to learn Pinyin outside instead of the school? It seems that we may require to pick some external English class as a supplement if we keep studying in Victoria.
It is a phonic class(jolly phonic) actually. Last year, I was worried that my son should work hard otherwise he would be left behind. (Since he is the smallest boy in the class!) So I enrol ...
Radiomama, can you give us more information about phonic class, please? When does you son start this? in K1 or K2?
Thanks Radiomama, It is a difficult decision to choose Victoria or York. It seems that York may have better English training as they have already used the Cambridge materials for their English class but Victoria has smaller class with two teacher per class (one chinese and one NET). Moreover, I have the idea on Victoria's allocation but not York.