ICA - any development plan for secondary school? - 國際學校

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Want to know more about ICA. Can someone please share:

- is there any plan for the school to start secondary?

- how's Chinese level? Is there any Chinese lesson every day? Traditional or simplified characters?

- any debenture or capital levy requirement?

Thank you!

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原帖由 happy116 於 15-03-11 發表
Want to know more about ICA. Can someone please share:

- is there any plan for the school to start ...

ICA stands for？ and where？
same as hk academy？
thank you

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本帖最後由 elmostoney 於 15-3-11 23:49 編輯

They have been actively seeking a site to start a secondary for the last two years, but have not been granted one.  However, they have announced that the school will open up Y7 and Y8 (as temporary measures,  I guess, until a permanent secondary school site can be located.)

每天45分鐘中文課 (簡體), 但中國人大部份會覺得未達標.  今天我剛跟老師了解過, 她們希望2015/16新學年可以提高水平. 對低班新生是好消息, 但對高班的, 恐怕不能那麼快涵接.  但我覺得仍是要自己在家跟一下中文比較好, 不竟讀IS, 不用補習, 中文又好的小朋友, 如無家中推動, 實屬少數.

One time non-refundable entry fee equivalent to one month's school fee upon acceptance.  There is also an annual levy revised each year.  The current year's levy is 11550.  No debenture.

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They have been actively seeking a site to start a sec ...

Thank you. It's very informative.

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My niece is attending ICA. They have Mandarin lesson for 40 minutes each day.

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ICA - Island Christian Academy

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They have been actively seeking a site to start a sec ...

elmostoney, 想請教下。
你小朋友喺ica讀是行ipc的，咁假設學校未來幾年都只係開到yr 8的話，你有咩plan?ipc 都讀左咁多年了，當轉去英基或其他is,會接到嗎？

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本帖最後由 elmostoney 於 15-3-17 10:32 編輯

First of all, in primary school stage, what is the difference between IPC and IB other than its name ?  IPC is also research-based learning.  From my experience at the two schools (my son's ESF and ICA), ESF requires a lot of parental guidance to do research, while at ICA, the teacher takes up more of the role in guiding a child.  Parent might involve, but usually not so extensively.  Otherwise, it's the same research, putting the project together, and presenting.

我個人覺得在小學階段, IB 是一種 hype. 即使主流學校很多也有research project, 君不見他們的孩子在中學階段插班進一間 IB school, 不見得就沒有能力做research.  反而 IB 到高年班時, 不同的要求多了, 如community service 這些.

我對ib到高中時的要求只是看朋友的孩子上學情況, 所以不太了解, 見他們除了很多research外，都是做點community service, 是不是要學一個第二語言什麼的?  我自己高中在北美唸, 當年沒有  ib, 但honors畢業的學生, 都要唸second language, 要讀一科 Arts, 修的理科比正常要求多, 想進好大學要有 community service, 最好就參加些運動比賽，science fair, history fair 之類的比賽,　 research project 就更是常餐，這是眾所周知的, 沒有什麼明文規定, 所以我現在看 IB, 左看右看, 除了加了一個 IB 統一試, 實在看不出跟N十年前我做的有什麼分別, 就是什麼都寫得一清二楚罷了.

我是初中出外唸書的，之前香港不流行那麼多research project, 但我不覺得有任何不適應的原因．個人覺得其實小學年代，最重要是打好閱讀理解，寫作和分析的基礎，做什麼research都難不到孩子．當年做research都是去圖書館的，現在更方便更容易，我實在看不出，即使小學階段唸一間沒有research projecth的學校，到中學有所轉變會涵接不上．這是個人對IB的小小感想，不喜勿插．

長話短說，所以我不認為ICA的孩子轉去一間IB學校會不適應，其實以我所見，不覺得小學階段ESF（起碼我兒的那間）和ICA有什麼不同，i.e. IPC vs. IB.

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本帖最後由 elmostoney 於 15-3-17 10:57 編輯

我打算讓孩子到時考其他中學．據聞不少IS中學生會在唸完Y6或Y8出國唸書，自然是越高班越多人走．我暫時沒有想過在大學前送孩子出國，所以最理想便是介時插班．當然相對一條龍這是較麻煩的，就看家長自己的偏好和決定，不竟每個人追求的東西都不一樣，並沒有對錯之分．

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callmebabe 發表於 15-3-17 00:41
elmostoney, 想請教下。
你小朋友喺ica讀是行ipc的，咁假設學校未來幾年都只係開到yr 8的話，你有咩plan?ip ...

IPC (International Primary Curriculum) is essentially a  curriculum for integrated studies (i.e. science and humanities) based on thematic, inquiry and project based learning. It matches with UK national curriculum. However, IPC curriculum does not include language and mathematics.
Hence school adopting IPC has much flexibility, e.g. using UK curriculum for language and Australian curriculum for math, etc. Furthermore IPC provides very detailed curriculum document and lesson plans for every unit so small schools without resources for curriculum design will find it very helpful.

IBPYP is  comprehensive curriculum framework and covers language and math as well.  I believe that transition from IPC to IBMYP should be quite seamless.

IB
http://occ.ibo.org/ibis/occ/guest/pypxx_home.cfm
IPC
http://www.greatlearning.com/ipc/the-ipc/the-ipc-learning-process

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First of all, in primary school stage, what is the di ...

同意。咁過多兩年當真係build up 到yr 12, 你會偏向留嚮ica定轉去其他學校？

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thanks so much for yr info and comments

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難講, 要視乎到時情況而定. 暫時你問我, 我會偏向其他學校, 因為其他學校有歷史, 我意思唔係考IB成績個種歷史, 而係SET UP一間中學, 點run, 課程等, 都要講磨練, 唔係一步到位. 冇歷史又未必一定唔得, 如果佢唔一下收太多人, 慢慢build up上去, 會OK都唔定. 但中學又講成本效益, 專科專教, 所以開始人太少, 佢可能又請唔到咁多老師.

我覺得佢地小學以咁短歷史, 其實算唔錯, 關鍵係佢地唔會好似好多其他新校咁, 一開始大量收不同學年的學生, 寧願一年一年慢慢開上來, 學生由細上來, 行為同質素比較穩定, 中途就算收插班生,都唔會係大比數. 而且辦校有宗旨, 唔會家長講兩句,又改去迎合不同人, 結果有D學校開校頭幾年, 年年改, 因為每年有新家長入來, 個個要求唔同. 當然有好有唔好, 但就冇咁亂.