My son's P1 Life in Raimondi

小天子

Dear all,

Very surprise and please that my son loves the school very much.  He can manage to complete almost all homework at school with just a few mistakes.  

The most important of all, he can tidy up his school bag everyday and able to ready all books / stationery for next day's lesson.  He told me and requested me not to check for him

He now needs to do some online work daily and no need for us to remind him.  May be he has really grown up.

Any other mum has sharing with us on your son??

Little Tin Che

RamondiMum

My son is studing in Ramondi College P1. He is very happy in these few months because primary school life has recess and the workload of this school is not heavy. He usually can finish his homework in 1 hour. Only exams (3 times per year) count marks. Just few percents of marks from dictation and composition. Both his English Oral and Mandarin have great improvement. No project work need partents to take so I do not have much pressure. There are assessments before exam but the marks are not counted in reports. They are just for testing the students' weakness so that they can do better in the exam. Since no pressure in the assessments, we can try to let him do revision by himself, learn how to take responsibility to his own study, learn how to do self study. In the first exam, my son got very good exam results, all "A" nearly all by himself. I had just give him some commercial workbooks ex. for him to do before exam. For the school life, he has joint 3 extra-curriculam activities after school. All of them are very economic and useful. In weekends, he have much leisure time to dream, to do his own creation work, make stories etc. Overall, I am quite satisfy with this school. Actually, I prefer Co-ed school. Now, it is going to be Co-ed next academic year. That would be so great to me and my son. He can develop in a more complete environment.

i_am_mango

原文章由 Tatama123 於 07-11-9 20:03 硐表

小天子,
請問平時英文堂老師是否用全英語教學? 另外一星期一次有外籍老師上Oral ? Math 用英文或廣東話教學? 中文是否全普通話?常識又用甚麼語言? 如果compare St Joseph, 你會點比較? ...

I attended the Talk given by the headmistress.  When she introduced the teachers, she mentioned that P1 English is taught by two foreign teachers, one male one female.  These two teachers are westerners, know not even a word of Cantonese, the headmistress said.

However, I later on found out from my son that his English teacher is neither of those two.  There are three classes in P1, I guess the two westerner teachers are teaching the other two classes of P1 that my kid is not in... but I won't worry because my kid is still speaking English with the foreign accent, not Cantonese accent.  In fact I don't mind having local HK Chinese to be my kid's English teacher because I often heard people saying that many westerner teachers are not good at teaching grammer (they don't know what grammer problems the HK kids may have).

ratafan

my son tells me that English lessons are conducted in Eng. Maths is conducted in cantonese, Chinese in Mandarin, General Studies in English/Cantonese (there are 4 modules a year, first module was in Chinese, but starting from 2nd module, it's in Eng)... TinChe, is it the same case for your kid?  
I have never studied in St Joseph before, so is my son.  no comment about St Joseph.  But I heard that it's half day school, pm for P1. It is still a boy school while Raimondi starts accepting girls next year.  If I have a choice, I would prefer St Joseph given only these facts, but not sure of the workload.

原文章由 Tatama123 於 07-11-9 20:03 硐表

小天子,
請問平時英文堂老師是否用全英語教學? 另外一星期一次有外籍老師上Oral ? Math 用英文或廣東話教學? 中文是否全普通話?常識又用甚麼語言? 如果compare St Joseph, 你會點比較? ...

小天子

Actually all primary school are the same, even though those famous one.

To me, the discipline of Raimondi is quite good. At least my son said he is afraid of teacher and he behave well in school.

原文章由 Micky 於 07-11-7 14:33 硐表
How about discipline?

有d 家長comment, 老師唔係好 control 到 discipline. 另外, 亦有個別學生欺凌事件.  Can anyone share?

Micky

How about discipline?

有d 家長comment, 老師唔係好 control 到 discipline. 另外, 亦有個別學生欺凌事件.  Can anyone share?

小天子

Hi Tatama,

My son told me they will have NET teacher lesson once a week, and during the lesson the other English teacher will also present to assist.

Chinese Languach is in 普通話, my son's potunghua is now much better than me!  He can use Potunghua to tell all the Chapters taught, amazing to me .

"對於學校滿意嗎? "  This question is difficult to answer.  The school building is a bit old but will be moving to Wan Chai.  As to the teachers, they are ALL experienced and will answer your call on the same day.   For my son, he loves the school much.  I think this is the most important of all.

Hope my comment can helps

Little TIn CHe

原文章由 Tatama123 於 07-11-6 21:42 硐表
各位家長,
請問英文堂是否每天都由外籍老師任教? 普通話是否每天都有?
你們對於學校滿意嗎?

小天子

Hi Tatamama, i_am_mango,

This is also the main reason that I choose Raimondi (I didn't even apply St. Paul Boys!).

Raimondi don't give too much pressure for parents, yet the school has its own way to maintain the academic performance (may be many types of worksheet and even myself have mixed them up sometimes ).  

The school even said don't check the homework for them, just to let teachers know which part they don't understand.  I am a working mum and busy enough, really can't (or don't want to) spend many effort to prepare projects and checking homework for them.  Nevertheless, i still spend around 1/2 hour a day just to make sure he has finished every homework.

Little Tin Che

原文章由 i_am_mango 於 07-10-29 23:19 硐表


Oh... sorry to hear that.  Apart from this I don't know what to say.

But once selected, shouldn't regret.  I've heard many good things about St Paul Boys, and I believe that if your kid is smart en ...

i_am_mango

原文章由 Tatama123 於 07-10-28 21:44 硐表
Ramondi 課程及功課壓力應該冇St Paul boy 咁多, 聽講St Paul boy 好深, 家長壓力唔小,d 同學又猛料,又要返全日, 功課唔小,真係唔夠時間用! 重話樣樣都計分, 點頂!!! ...

Oh... sorry to hear that.  Apart from this I don't know what to say.

But once selected, shouldn't regret.  I've heard many good things about St Paul Boys, and I believe that if your kid is smart enough he'll be able to handle.  Worry it later!

i_am_mango

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i_am_mango

原文章由 小天子 於 07-10-29 18:23 硐表
Hi i_am_mango and ratafan,

That's why I didn't join any extra activities for my son, just give him more time to adopt to the school life in the first term, may be consider some in 2nd term.

Btw, how do you find their dictation?  For the English, it seems not that difficult, but for the Chinese, the teacher is a bit strict on the writing and 筆順.  Many corrections on writing and exercise sheets for Chinese Language and composition.

小天子

Hi, Little Tin Chi,

I didn't make my son join any of those after school activities too.

I found nothing special re dictation.

No or not much correction for my son on Chinese and composition, maybe his kindergarten was very strict on 筆順 too.

But yes, I agree with you, their teachers set high standards when correcting their exercises.

ratafan

小天子, agreed with you on the strict approach of the teachers on the Chinese characters.  I think she isn't strict only on the 筆順, but also the very minor details.  I always overlooked those mistakes pointed out by the teacher.  But I think this is good.  It trains my kid to be more demanding and serious than before.
I also regret allowing him to learn violin.  He is already learning piano, but he requests me to let him learn violin.  I think it's primarily because he likes the way he "looks" holding the violin and the ownership of a violin makes him excited.  So I think I'll quit it after this course finish.  This would just be a game for him lar...

BTW, do you parents have younger kid?? I find problems allocating time between the 2 kids.  Seems I focus too much on this P1 prince, I don't have no time to tell the younger kid (still in Kinder) stories before bed... very guilty...

Tatama123, the time taken for them to complete homework really depends on a various factors:
- whether the homework is easy or not
- how concentrated your kid is (this would be affected by his physical condition on whether he's tired or not)
- how many pieces of homework there are in total
but mine could complete it within 2 hours (including the time for day-dreaming.)

原文章由 小天子 於 07-10-29 18:23 硐表
Hi i_am_mango and ratafan,

That's why I didn't join any extra activities for my son, just give him more time to adopt to the school life in the first term, may be consider some in 2nd term.

Btw, how ...

小天子

Hi Micky,

There is school bus to take you home.  No need to worry.

Little Tin Che

原文章由 Micky 於 07-10-29 11:37 硐表
請問課外活動後仲有冇校車? 還是要自行接走孩子?

小天子

Hi i_am_mango and ratafan,

That's why I didn't join any extra activities for my son, just give him more time to adopt to the school life in the first term, may be consider some in 2nd term.

Btw, how do you find their dictation?  For the English, it seems not that difficult, but for the Chinese, the teacher is a bit strict on the writing and 筆順.  Many corrections on writing and exercise sheets for Chinese Language and composition.

小天子

原文章由 i_am_mango 於 07-10-28 09:03 硐表


Hi ratafan, I agree with you - there are many tasks after school which I guess this is the life of a usual primary school kids going to a traditional primary school.  Once selected, this is the leve ...

Micky

請問課外活動後仲有冇校車? 還是要自行接走孩子?

i_am_mango

原文章由 Tatama123 於 07-10-28 19:49 硐表
[quote]原文章由 i_am_mango 於 07-10-28 15:31 硐表


i_am_mango
Almost 40!   仲多人過津校, 老師點應付到咁多人?
一級有幾多班? 4 或5 ? 需要背書嗎? ...

yes ar!  so many!  but my son's class teacher is quite good, she teaches the class many subjects and knows clearly how everyone behaves gar.
3 classes for p.1 in total lor

so far no need to recite text.