CAIS vs VSA

jetport

My child was accepted by CAIS
and she is currently studying at Victoria Kindergarten K2

We are thinking whether we should let her switch to CAIS (K3) next year.

Can anyone give me some comment ?

vinvillalee

Thks for your sharing.
My boy is studying K1 now & I want to apply CAIS & RC for K3/ P1 when he is in K2. I understand the education system for both school is totally different. Therefore I want to know more info about the interview for the school.

[ 本帖最後由 vinvillalee 於 11-11-22 17:29 編輯 ]

vinvillalee

原帖由 iseult 於 11-11-20 16:48 發表
my girl switched to CAIS since Aug, so far she's improved a lot in reading and writing, more confident in expressing herself, more motivated to read for knowledge and for fun, teachers are caring and  ...

Does the maths test is difficult? What's the content of the interview? Can you share? Thks!

workmama

Very agree CAIS teachers are very caring, nice and professional ...

I cannot benchmark the academic level of CAIS ... but just base on my kid 's study material, the standard is quite high, because the vocabulary is difficult.

wongting

I had a difficult time to make up the decision last year when my son got the K3 offer.  Finally, we took it and I am now very pleased that I have made the right decision.  I think the teachers are all very caring, just to compare with those in his previous kindergarten which is a well-known one.  I can see him improve a lot in spoken English and his reading skills.  His vocabularies improve a lot and he enjoys reading very much.   

Before, when he was studying in his previous kindergarten, he did not like to go to school although he was academically very outstanding.  Now even I asked him to try other schools, he would tell me that he wants to stay in CAIS for many years.  I think we have to make our children enjoy school before they could learn and develop well.  

Although this is an IS, the students behave very well and I can see the teachers work hard in a positive and encouraging way to make the students discipline well.

So far I am very happy with this school and I could tell myself that I made the right decision to let my son stay there.

[ 本帖最後由 wongting 於 11-11-20 23:45 編輯 ]

mattmame

Agree. The class teacher of my son last year at G3 was not CARING and extremely lazy.  If you only want to learn less than other schools, it is a perfect choice,  my son only learnt 20 vocabularies  in a month.  That it! Sometimes 10 only.  Think twice!

vuitton623

victoriarosary
which kindergartend  yr kid's study?

victoriarosary

I have to say it's rather easy to get a place in CAIS. I know a no. of children who are studying there.
Case 1: Failed in ESF schools, SIS, Candian International - got accepted in K3 last year.
Case 2: A Child who is not that smart - is now in P1
Case 3: Near all the parents from my kids' kindergarten last year were offered K3 places last year.

Of Course, it is a very caring school with great teachers. But if you are aiming the top-notch oversea universities. Think twice.

330

Can anyone share about the interview of CAIS for K3?

[ 本帖最後由 330 於 11-2-15 23:12 編輯 ]

JarJarBin

Dear All

I am also interested in this school because it follows candian system and the school fee is not as expensive as CDNIS or CIS.  I found a lot of good comments from BK.  But most the good comments are good-caring for students.  Can any one can share about if most of studends are HK Chinese and how is the academic standard compared with ESF?  Thanks

PCMW

Thank you for your sharing.  I just got the offer of CAIS and my boy will enter K3 in the coming Aug!

gogocat

my daughter was once accepted by both SIS and CDNIS. I picked SIS for her and she had studied in SIS from PY1 to PY2. Although we have switched her to another school finally, I would say SIS is a good school.

For SIS,
The school teaches phonics at PY1, which helps students to pick up reading skill very fast. The Chinese cirriculum is really structured and I guess it could be comparable to that of local school.

Students in SIS are mainly local people and Singaporean. Occasionally you can see one to two non-chinese and non-singaporean in one class.. if you expect you will not have pressure and have more time to spend with your children, like other international school, SIS is not the type that fits you. I would say, SIS provides you with an environment that your child could be fluent with English and PTH. Most of the students in school communicate in fluent English (singlish). Yet, their accent might change as other people say, most of the subjects are taught by singaporeans (apart from english).

For CDNIS,

I do not hv any first hand experience. Yet, for what I have learnt so far are all bad and I wont put my child there.  you may wish to seek advice from other BK parents.

just my two cents.

gogocat

原帖由 waiee 於 10-2-22 16:13 發表
Hi all,

Sorry for my stupid question, i wanna ask you're talking about Canadian Int'l School (CNDIS) located in Pokfulum, right?

Cuz my son got accepted by CNDIS Reception class, and also got accept ...

mat媽

原帖由 waiee 於 10-2-22 16:13 發表
Hi all,

Sorry for my stupid question, i wanna ask you're talking about Canadian Int'l School (CNDIS) located in Pokfulum, right?

Cuz my son got accepted by CNDIS Reception class, and also got accept ...

waiee,
We are talking about CAIS which is located in Kowloon City.

http://www.cais.edu.hk

waiee

Hi all,

Sorry for my stupid question, i wanna ask you're talking about Canadian Int'l School (CNDIS) located in Pokfulum, right?

Cuz my son got accepted by CNDIS Reception class, and also got accepted by SIS.  I'm still thinking which school should I pick, but most likely would prefer Canadian IS cuz I want my son to have a fluent English speaking.

But in terms of Mandarin,  is it SIS's Mandarin programme much much better than CNDIS? or now CNDIS's Mandarin can be competitive with other IS?

mat媽

原帖由 workmama 於 10-2-19 16:58 發表
Then, we will know each other later, my kid also enter CAIS in this coming Aug.

Will you choose French or Mandarin ?

I will choose Mandarin as no one in my family can speak in French.

workmama

Then, we will know each other later, my kid also enter CAIS in this coming Aug.

Will you choose French or Mandarin ?

mat媽

原帖由 workmama 於 10-2-19 10:53 發表
mat媽媽,

Did you son enter CAIS ?

My son will enter CAIS in coming August.