可以談談培僑與國際學校的異同嗎？

小謙伯伯

前些時在《小一選校》欄看到有家長提到培僑說：
a colleague's children study at Pui Kiu, she said it is like an international school.

我請她詳為述說：
Is this remark meant to be complimentary or otherwise? Would you elaborate further?

她回說是同事的評語，具體情況不清楚：
Sorry that I don't have much information about Pui Kiu. It's just my colleague's comment. I guess it refers to the amount of freedom. (not sure)

可否請培僑的家長為我釋疑，具體談談培僑與一般國際學校的異同？相信除鄙人外，這也是很多心儀培僑的家長有興趣認識的。

jychan

Dear Natalie,
Thank you for sharing. My daughter will be in G1 this Aug. I also found Pui Kiu suits the needs of our family. The school visions & approaches meets our expectation.

My daughter is a rather shy & "slow to warm up" girl. Lokking forward she can get build her confident when she starts her school life in Pui Kiu.

jychan

happyrain

Dear Natelie,
Thanks for your detail explannation of the ECA. My daughter will start her G.1 soon and I am anxiously  waiting to see how much she enjoys her school life!

原帖由 natelie 於 09-7-7 10:57 發表
Hi, Goldenbaby,
My comment of these ECA :
- Visual Art.  To me, I am very satifactory of this scope and depth of this subject, it's include eastern and western art basic skill training and.  In fact,  ...

natelie

You are welcome.
Yes, my boy like the school very much.  As the school life is so content-rich, he is very 'tired' afterschool every day as he is so focus in learning in fun but really not relaxing way.  Therefore, I don't put him to any other afterschool activities ( except weekend ) as he is really 'exhaused'.  After finish his homework every day, he prefer reading in those rest time at home.
FYI, my younger son will also start G1 in coming Sept as I hardly find other school that meet 'our' family expectation.  Hope your daughter will get in soon.

natelie

Hi, Goldenbaby,
My comment of these ECA :
- Visual Art.  To me, I am very satifactory of this scope and depth of this subject, it's include eastern and western art basic skill training and.  In fact, I have cut the original drawing class for my son starting from P2 as I found what the school provided are even better.
- Sport.  To me, the training by school is very basic and he had attained the basic skills of physical education.  I still put my son to other sport team during weekend for an extra training as myself believe SPORTMANSHIP ( especially team sport ) is VERY important for developing one's personality.
- Music.  Quite like to sport, the training provided by school is very basic and also they give an opportunity for the students to expose to different musical instrument.  I know starting from P3, every student then require to pick an musical instrument as lifelong learning.
- Social Development. This is one of the subject my boy like most.. The coverage of this subject is very wide.  From planting, cooking, social work participiation, excursion etc.  I hardly found any other ECA provided by other centre could provides such wide scope of learning.

My comments are all these ECA provided by school very fundamental and basic where should meet most of the parent's expectation.  The quality of these classes is good as they are 專科專教.  However, whether the parent would like to focus for a specific area depends on the parents own requirement/expectation as well as the children area of talent which are different from one to one.

Hope I answer your questions.

natelie

Hi, Goldenbaby,
As we ( and most of his classmates ) are living not close to the school, my boy seldom join the ECA organised by school. However, what we learnt from the leaflets of these ECA, if for sport programme, most of these are trained by professional trainer ( you know the 前国家隊 member ) which I think the standard is not questionnable.  If you are living close to the school, I think it is worth to join for sure.

puikiufriend

Next year will be the last HKCEE.

原帖由 goldenbaby 於 09-7-3 11:51 發表


Do you mean 3/3/4? when will only one public exam in Form 6???

natelie

also, I want to say I know some parents may think the school are too loose and the students are too happy and only have fun.. what I experience is the school do have high expectation from parents in aiding ( or guiding ) the learning of their children, the homework load is not really relaxing.  Sometimes it is 'much more' than I originally expected.  However, these homework are usually task-orientated and those extended work that I think the teachers want to re-inforce the students instead of blindly copying.

natelie

My kid will be promoted to G3 next school year, so far, I am very satify with how the school implement their mission to educate the kids, I dare to say their Chinese (PTH) and English are far higher level than others school.  Another point is Pui Kiu do not have elite-class system while they will make administration arrangement instead for students with special need including those students that may be too advanced ( may be from the students' ind background or others reason ).  What I see is the school really want to bring up every individual students.  Of course, it is not a perfect school, some may think the teacher are too young but I think they are also energnetic enough as well.

For the public examinations in future, I am confident they will be very comparable to those elite school.  However, please remember PK students is much happier and satified in learning rather that those drive the marks from day 1.

sumichow

原帖由 goldenbaby 於 09-7-2 16:07 發表
Dear PuiKui fans,

I just wanna to know will the students take the HKCEE and HKAL exam?

As it is flexible learning and much lesser tests and exams than other traditional schools, are the students cap ...

Coming future, no more HKCEE and HKAL exam la.

ononchu

Dear Heidibaba & Puikiufriend

Thanks all for your advice.

Ononchu

原帖由 puikiufriend 於 09-6-27 02:08 發表
其实从2年级开始已经有这样的安排，而且不只英文，数学也是这样可以跳级上课。座位不成问题，不用担心。

puikiufriend

其实从2年级开始已经有这样的安排，而且不只英文，数学也是这样可以跳级上课。座位不成问题，不用担心。

原帖由 Heidibaba 於 09-6-26 18:28 發表
Sorry that I don't know the arrangement of the other forms.  I know this arrangement because my daughter is in one of these classes which has such special arrangement.

I don't think this arrangement  ...

Heidibaba

Sorry that I don't know the arrangement of the other forms.  I know this arrangement because my daughter is in one of these classes which has such special arrangement.

I don't think this arrangement can be applied in P.1 as the school is unable to know the educational level of the kids.  I would think such arrangement can only be able to apply starting from P.2 (the earliest).  The teachers will have a better understanding of the subject knowledge of the individual students after one year's teaching and observation.

Heidibaba

原帖由 ononchu 於 09-6-26 13:06 發表
Hello Heidibaba

Can you share at what level would the said arrangement apply?  Only for students at G3 the earliest?

My child is in G1 and I have not heard from him about the arrangement.

Ononchu ...

ononchu

Hello Heidibaba

Can you share at what level would the said arrangement apply?  Only for students at G3 the earliest?

My child is in G1 and I have not heard from him about the arrangement.

Ononchu

Heidibaba

囡囡班上都有3個同學在上英文課時由三年級跳到四年級上，她說四年級又同時有幾個同學跳到五年級上。學校的安排好像在同一時間同一科目但不同年級的同學都能跳級，這樣的安排在行政上是顯然是相當很麻煩，要同時同地上同一科目，還要同時安排兩個或以上同一專科的老師任教，比跳一級的安排煩複得多。當然不是每個同學所有科目都是優異的，所以我較為欣賞學校這個做法，也覺得學校是以學生為本，寧願增加行政的工作量(編課程表不是一個班的問題，還牽涉到老師教不同級別的問題)。

原帖由 honglish 於 09-6-26 01:01 發表
想八一下, 你說:
英文好，可以跳級學習，我囝囝那班就有幾個由低班上高班上英文課。
具體是怎樣跳, 是中文數學和同班同學上, 而英文到高年班上嗎? 那有位置坐?  




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