1. depending on which campus you are applying, some campuses offer 5-day for all PN students, but there are some campuses (such as Homantin and Harbour Green) which offer both 3-day PN and 2-day PN. HMT and HG have only very few seats available for 5-day PN which mainly are reserved for students who have brothers or sisters studying there.
2. For PN, only one choice, that is Cantonese / English. But there is 20min PTH session each week. For K1 and onwards you may select either trilingual (Cantonese / PTH / English) or internaional (PTH and English).
3. As said, only Cantonese / English for PN. So, their interviews are also conducted in these two languages mainly. My son had the PN interview in March this year and the format was similar to Vic's playgroup. Questions were asked by teachers but very simple ones. My son was asked to dance and do some action. There was circle time as well.
Hope this helps.
Btw, should this thread be put under 幼兒園?
There are always many many parents applying for Victoria's PG. I applied for my son when he was 1 month old, but eventually, there were space available when he was 15 month old. You may check with Vic how many of kids are in front of your son on the waiting list for PG. Vic usually has PN interview in March every year. Maybe, by the time your son has the interview, there may be chance that your son has already started PG at Vic. Although PG stuendents do have some advantages (at least the kids are more familiar with the teachers and the environrment which are beneficial during the interview), there is no guarantee that PG students will be accepted to PN, given that Vic is quite competitive in the PN application, especially Harbour Height campus. I heard about some unsuccessful cases in the past year.
How long has your son attended the current PG? He may not get used to it at the beginning. But after several lessons, he may get interested of what other kids are doing during the class and will follow. Just give him more time. Or you may ask the teacher there where you can buy the CD for those songs that are played during the class. And you may play those CD more at home. When he gets familiar with those songs (and of course you can lead him to sing), he will like it and be more concentrated during the class.
原帖由 winifred102 於 11-9-8 23:39 發表
There are always many many parents applying for Victoria's PG. I applied for my son when he was 1 month old, but eventually, there were space available when he was 15 month old. You may check with V ...
原帖由 winifred102 於 11-9-8 23:39 發表
There are always many many parents applying for Victoria's PG. I applied for my son when he was 1 month old, but eventually, there were space available when he was 15 month old. You may check with V ...
Since the PN admission is very competitive every year, it's better that you apply some more as back-up.
TT? Do you mean Tutor Time? My son also attended PG since 12 month and went to its nursery class (since 2 yrs old) for 1/2 year.
I quite like TT as I always want my son to learn more PTH. This is the major advantage over Vic's PG. TT used to have some very good teachers (both NET and PTH). But Owen's teachers all left after the past summer.
My son went to both TT and Vic's PG before 2. THen I switched him to nursery class at TT when he reached 2, since he is a "Big-boy". Putting him to nurser earlier can help him to get used to school life (by himself) earlier and to train him becoming more independent. Also, he was old enough for school life when getting 2 and he felt boring staying at home always.
Your son is only 15 mth old which is still very young. You still have more than half a year to train him. Need not to worry too much.
School life at TT is happy and interesting. But academically, I'm really not sure how it compares with other schools. My son is now starting PN in another school which is one of the popular ones where he can stay there till K3 and. This is all I can advise.
I do know quite a number of parents have their kids studying PG and PN there, then transfer to other schools for K1.
For primary, I most likely target Govt aided and DSS. But also will consider IS too.
My son did attend Vic PN, but for a few weeks only since there was a better choice available at that time. The major reason of such change is that they only offered me 3 days per week PN. As I said before, there are some campuses of Vic only offer 3-day or 2-day classes for PN. Only very very limited numbers of students will be given offer for 5-day class.
Therefore, you have to check very clearly with the campus that you are going to apply for.