SIS同Victoria, 點比呀? 邊間好d呢?

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原帖由 OKPLEASE 於 09-5-27 18:48 發表

UK expatriates like to choose Kellett as Kellett is an UK international school (they use the name of “The British International School in Hong Kong”), where background of families are very similar (mostly from UK) and there is strong sense of UK culture surrounding the school and their end goal is going back to UK for continuous education. They trust the teaching principles and methods there. Of course, they are richer and can afford higher school fee. Why bother them to compete with others to get into the selective IS.

They chose Kellett because they have no other choices.
For example, ESF is always full and hard to get a place. Other international schools too. They have got long waiting list and most expats cannot afford to wait for even a few months like we do.
I do not know anyone personly from Kellett but just a couple of years ago when they did not have a secondary section yet, the primary graduates had to go around to look for schools.
I am not sure generally where everyone goes but I know that a lot of them failed to admission procedures with various ESF schools. Of course, some also went into ESF and other good international schools. But may be parents should consider why so many failed too.
I am just glad they have their one secondary school now.

OKPLEASE

原帖由 wisekid2007 於 09-5-27 17:43 發表
I can say that you need to conduct more research before listening to the comments from those parents without sufficient sense of judgement.

By the way, GSIS doesn't particular like kids from SIS of c ...

I totally agree that everyone reading the post here should do research more themselves before trusting any parents who express views there, because no one knows which parents are those without sufficient sense of judgement and which parents gives constructive comments /suggestions or just throwing out non-constructive or discouraging ideas.

Regarding Kellett, I just want to give an alternative. If the kids are bright enough, needless to say, he/she should try to apply for selective school such as ESF and GSIS or other ISs. If not, moving towards non-selective schools is not a bad choice. Being “non-selective” does not necessarily mean the school is not good. We need to do visit, research and understand their principles/aims.

UK expatriates like to choose Kellett as Kellett is an UK international school (they use the name of “The British International School in Hong Kong”), where background of families are very similar (mostly from UK) and there is strong sense of UK culture surrounding the school and their end goal is going back to UK for continuous education. They trust the teaching principles and methods there. Of course, they are richer and can afford higher school fee. Why bother them to compete with others to get into the selective IS.

OKPLEASE

原帖由 狄麗絲 於 09-5-27 12:41 發表
Dear okplease

How about Kellet school ? they only open to Y8 and also they share with campus with Camel. Will that be worth to share the facilities ? When the school confirmed to open G9..  Any comme ...

My kid is just few years old and I may let her in this school in later years and that's why I do not very detailed research on the expansion plan but as far as I know the school is keen to expand and find a permanent site to accomodate the reception, primary and secondary together. They are thinking about Kowloon Bay. You can read this link: http://www.kellettschool.com/secondary/Letter%20re%20handover%20of%20SKW%20site.pdf.

Good points are:
1. Follow UK curriculum, good if you plan to send kids to UK to study in future - This school is introduced by my boss who is a British expatriate in HK. I told him that in future I want to send her to overseas boarding schools but I am afraid it may be too young for the kid to study alone overeas. Then he told me about this school, which is following UK curriculum and so I can delay sending her to UK for boarding.

2. Friendly attitude of principal - I did visit this school and I found that the current place, if just for reception and primary, is acceptable, in term of facilities. I also like the friendly smiles of the principal, Ann Macdonald and the teaching staffs there. It is Ann Macdonald who takes us to school visit in an hour time. All kids know her and say good morning to her. It seems to me that the culture there is very friendly.

3. 有教無類 priniple - I agree that the waiting list is very long, as I understand they told me their priniple is 有教無類, they will accept all types of students (of course they highlight students must have proficieny in English language because it is an UK stream school).  So what you need to do is to apply (HK$2,000 application fee) and wait and no need for interview (but they need school report). Every year they will need you to pay HK$100 to keep the kid on the waiting list.

4. Good class of classmates - Also, I know many kids of top management people who are UK expatriates study there.

5. Additional language - French - to learn

Bad things about the school are:
1. Limited Mandarin learning (they did have, but very few per week)
2. Student T/O rate is high as they will leave when parents leave HK. (on the other hand is a good news if you are on waiting list)

Because of limited Chinese/Mandarin, I will only  plan to send her to this school maybe in secondary school, which by that time, my kid will have good foundation of Chinese and I also hope the secondary school could be better developed at that time.

They welcome parents to do visit and to understand more by asking them questions, if you are interested, call them.

Do apply earlier so as to queue up in the waiting list ASAP is my suggestion if you want your kid to study there.

Yau_Cheung

But the waiting list for Kellett is very very long too.   

原帖由 OKPLEASE 於 09-5-27 09:07 發表


CHENJY, Kellett starts to have secondary school since last 1-2 year (now up to Year 8) and they plan to expand. Please see the following link. Since this is new, there may be vacancies.

http://www ...

狄麗絲

Dear okplease

How about Kellet school ? they only open to Y8 and also they share with campus with Camel. Will that be worth to share the facilities ? When the school confirmed to open G9..  Any comments of this school?

OKPLEASE

原帖由 luluonthemoon 於 09-5-26 21:46 發表
GSIS does accept students simply because they have very well done in the assessment (that's what they say!). It's not always true that GSIS likes students from particular schools. It can't be true. As ...

CHENJY, Kellett starts to have secondary school since last 1-2 year (now up to Year 8) and they plan to expand. Please see the following link. Since this is new, there may be vacancies.

http://www.kellettschool.com/y78.htm

mattsmum

i found what I wrote on 09-feb 9, at at time there were seats at yr 8 in west island, don't know if it is still available.
http://forum.edu-kingdom.com/red ... 1&goto=lastpost

"ESF place avialable

saw an ed in today's paper, limited seats available now:

bradbury: only yr 6,
discovery: only yr 7,
kjs:
peaknly yr 6,
west island: only year 8.'"

luluonthemoon

GSIS does accept students simply because they have very well done in the assessment (that's what they say!). It's not always true that GSIS likes students from particular schools. It can't be true. As it's been said, it's always the students' performance that only counts for admission. Very straightforward. But if you turn it around, it clearly shows that they're open to everyone. They don't care about where you live, or what kind of line the parents are in and so on. I've heard many cases of children who have failed both at sibling status and with corporate debenture.

Kellett doesn't have secondary section as most of the kids there go on to ESF at year 7.

CHENJY, sorry to hear about your daughter. Sounds like she's been a bit downhearted for herself... Have you ever talked with her about changing the schools? What does your daughter actually say about it? If she's still early years in a secondary school, you may want to take a chance to see the schools with unfamiliar curicculum. The bottomline is that she should be happy to learn at school. Although you have said that ESF has a long waiting list, I still think it's worth trying for application. Honestly, the standing in the list keeps changing there, you'd better call in from time to time. For other schools as well. Take her to the tour in some schools and see how she's interested. Nail down some of them to apply in the first place. You may never see the real situation of admission until you actually apply for it. As she may have ideas of what she likes or not in the subjects so far, you could consider American/Canadian curriculum if she looks interested in learning something new. Get her involved in the thorough research of possible schools. Don't take it on so much as there's always a brand new start and it's never too late. Hopefully this process will be something that gives you and your daughter different views and ideas towards her education.

OKPLEASE

原帖由 wisekid2007 於 09-5-26 15:07 發表
**think the academic level is very very similar among GSIS, CDNIS and SIS ( I cannot comment on HKIS as I have no research on this school) **

Based on what ground do you think that they are very very ...

Of course, my understanding is based on the comments from other moms in other topics related comparing these ISs. If you kid is studying in GSIS, your information related to GSIS should be more correct.

Chenjy mom, have you tried GSIS as I quite agree that GSIS kids could study more happily there and also I know GSIS likes the kids from SIS.


Have you also heard about the IS called "Kellett School" in Pokfulam? It follows English curriculum.  Most kids' parents there are UK expatriates.

OKPLEASE

原帖由 wisekid2007 於 09-5-26 14:26 發表
What do you mean by "though may be less challenging than SIS"?

Do you think that the academic level of GSIS, HKIS and CIS is less than SIS?

**I believe that GSIS, HKIS, CIS and CDNIS are even more d ...

think the academic level is very very similar among GSIS, CDNIS and SIS ( I cannot comment on HKIS as I have no research on this school) but more challenging for SIS (for both kid and parents) is in the sense the teachers are more serious and the workload of homework is more.

Regarding the "relationship" stuff, I am not talking about Siblings. Even SIS does not look at siblings. I am talking about other special "relationship" with the school (know the top management, has made donations, hold corporate debentures etc.)because the no of vacancies is so little due to 插班, and of course I always agree that the ability is of utmost importance for any application of schools.

elisabeth

Suggest not to choose Victoria, try to take by bus in the morning, the students of Victoria leap out from the bus and yelling foul language.

好多讀唔成書但父母有錢都選擇呢間學校。

Regarding American Intl always have vacancies. As I remembered I have applied this school 2 years before and we could easily to get a seat. But we finally rejected due to we heard some bad comments of this school. They called us many times for asking the reason to give up. I think it's impossible to happen from others.

原帖由 OKPLEASE 於 09-5-26 12:11 發表


I believe that GSIS, HKIS, CIS and CDNIS are even more difficult to 插班unless you may have relationship. For GSIS, CDNIS and CIS their academic level is not low, though may be less challenging than ...

OKPLEASE

原帖由 WYmom 於 09-5-26 11:35 發表


Suggest you go to the school and take a look at their students, conduct, curriculum...  Don't rush into joining a college without knowing the details.

Personally I think better to try GSIS, HKIS, C ...

I believe that GSIS, HKIS, CIS and CDNIS are even more difficult to 插班unless you may have relationship. For GSIS, CDNIS and CIS their academic level is not low, though may be less challenging than SIS.

In fact, Victoria Academy is not a bad choice, though people said that it is still new and has no track record. But the principle underlying the school is good, they got Eng, Mandarin and Cantonese. I heard the syllabus is not as harsh as SIS and is 活动教学.