有無小朋友返緊維多利亞PG?

Twinboys08

由五個月大等到依家兩歲終於有位喇, 想問下返緊或返過嘅小朋友, 媽咪有咩心得?

sh_yip

原帖由 Twinboys08 於 10-4-22 09:33 發表
Well ~ I have already submitted the withdrawal letter to upper kornhill Vic PG...can't stand it anymore. Unfortunately, still need to pay for May school fee !

Hi Twinsboy08,

I haven’t submitted the withdrawal letter yet.
It seems that the playgroup have improvement after change of teacher.
Ms Law (Chinese Teacher) is so so, but Ms Christy (Temp. English Teacher) is good.
Ms Annette lost her voice last week, hope she is fine this week, so that I can compare the standard of teacher and make final decision to quit or continue in June.
Kids have more activities and less free play time last week, e.g. crafting & singing.
My son do enjoy the class than before.
My son like to sing and dance lately, do you have any good musical class to recommend?
I attended trial-class at Kindermusik last year, but their location is very inconvenient (Universal Trade Centre in Central).
Have you joined any other playgroup for your twins (excl. Victoria)?

twinsmummy

原帖由 Lord-the-man 於 10-4-23 09:33 發表
R u in CWB Trilingual ?...

Yes, that's y it said different campus have different arrangement in streams and classes.

As specified in the application form this year, in CWB campus, Trilingual in K on ...

I spoke to the supervisor at HH today.  She said all the classes become Trilingual in N.  So even if not trilingual this year for PN, the child will be in the following year.

yaulinda

Hi Jupiter,

Yes I do think Vic teachers are really having lots of allowances for disciplinary issues of students.  Perhaps they are more child centered and they concern about feelings of children.

But I think whether it is good or not is quite dependent on the characteristics of different child.

Like my elder daughter, she's very anxious and worry of doing things wrong, so I she doesn't had the problem of following rules when she was graduated from Vic.  

BTW, I like the schools you mentioned too!

Jupiter

原帖由 yaulinda 於 10-4-22 10:48 發表
That's why I think Vic students are very happy but very free when compared to other schools.

Linda, so do you think that Vic is too "free"?  If I aim for DSS primary schools like HKUGA or St Paul co-ed (seems like a mission impossible, ha!), do you know whether they prefer Vic students or not????

Lord-the-man

R u in CWB Trilingual ?...

Yes, that's y it said different campus have different arrangement in streams and classes.

As specified in the application form this year, in CWB campus, Trilingual in K only came from Tirlingual PN, whereas other campus might simply transfer Bilingual Eng/Cantonese to Trilingual as what u said. CWB still maintain Eng/Put Billingual class.

Anyway, I think they changed arrangement from time to time...I heard from a parent whose son is studying in PN 2009-2010 class of Harbour Green (Kln West) that they have Trilingual PN last year...But this year, only CWB and HH PN has Trilingual...

yaulinda

Agree,
I received such a letter too.

Lord-the-man

原帖由 Jupiter 於 10-4-22 17:20 發表
Please see if this is correct or not:

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There is a paragraph just below this table of p.10 that u mentioned, of which read:

"學制之分佈會因應各校舍而有所不同,故申請時請参考2010-2011年各校級別"...

i.e., that's the table imentioned in p.23 ...which is the actual class distribution in each campus....thus, p.10 is merely a generic distribution of the whole school as a whole ....

Hope that it can clarify ....

Jupiter

Please see if this is correct or not:



[ 本帖最後由 Jupiter 於 10-4-22 17:24 編輯 ]

Jupiter

原帖由 Lord-the-man 於 10-4-22 14:58 發表


Hope the brochure (p.23) of the below link could give everybody a better understanding of the streams ....

http://www.victoria.edu.hk/about-victoria/eng/about_42.html

Thanks a lot for your information, but I read from p.11 that bilingual (eng/cantonese) is for PN only, starting from K1, the bilingual means 英普, but it requires the kids to use either english or PTH as mother tongue.  Please correct me if I am wrong.

Anyway, my friend's daughter studies in Vic from PN to secondary school now, her language is good (trilingual), and she was in Lower Kornhill campus before.  So I think the student's quality would not be bad no matter they study in HH / CWB / any other campus.

Lord-the-man

原帖由 Lord-the-man 於 10-4-22 13:58 發表
Officially from Victoria's definition, they divide their classes (PN & all K level) into different streams : Trilingual, Bilingual (Eng/Pu & Eng/Cantonese)...

I cannot comment if K1 are all defacto T ...

Hope the brochure (p.23) of the below link could give everybody a better understanding of the streams ....

http://www.victoria.edu.hk/about-victoria/eng/about_42.html

[ 本帖最後由 Lord-the-man 於 10-4-22 15:02 編輯 ]

Lord-the-man

Officially from Victoria's definition, they divide their classes (PN & all K level) into different streams : Trilingual, Bilingual (Eng/Pu & Eng/Cantonese)...

I cannot comment if K1 are all defacto Trilingual in all campus....as they really have such a segregation externally to cater for different demands of the market. Otherwise, it would be meaningless to carry a separate label.

But anyway, carrying a certificate from Tri or Bi lingual stream make no difference in reality if the kid is not able to communicate the language properly in the end.

Jupiter

原帖由 Lord-the-man 於 10-4-22 10:40 發表


Even for the PG we came across, we didnt find any idle time so far...and all were well structured and organised.

What i can say is different parents have different expectations and needs, just as s ...

Very much agreed with your comment that it is about market demands.  Most of the parents today want to put their children in trilingual environment.  But I think it does not neccessarily mean that HH trilingual is kind of more "superior" than those Vic bilingual classes, just like what you said, it is about different expectation.

Since my girl is "small" girl, putting her to HH trilingual would mean asking her to face fierce competition, my aim is to get into Vic, so my strategy is not to go for HH trilingual but go for Kornhill bilingual.  As the Principal told me that I can make a written request to change to other campus if I like in K1, as many students will leave Vic in K1, there should be spaces available and PN students should have the first priority.  

But I think if my girl can get into Vic PN, I won't request change of campus in K1, because all classes will become trilingual in K1 anyway.

yaulinda

Actually the students of PN are free to choose which group of activities they want to join.

For my elder daughter's experience in Vic PN, her teachers commented my child mainly choose the Chinese teacher, and she rarely join the NET's group, luckily that her NET was quite good, and my daughter finally joined her group more oftenly towards the end of the school year.  

However, they are very "open minded" and never push (or strongly encourage) children to try out different groups.

That's why I think Vic students are very happy but very free when compared to other schools.

Lord-the-man

原帖由 wootaitai 於 10-4-22 10:26 發表
but the way PN classes are structured are different. they are divided into 2-3 groups, each teacher handles 1 group and they rotate teachers/ activities. So each teacher will be actively handling the  ...

Even for the PG we came across, we didnt find any idle time so far...and all were well structured and organised.

What i can say is different parents have different expectations and needs, just as some parents look for Trilungual, some for Cantonese/Eng bilingual, some for Put/Eng Bilingual ...etc. But for sure, they structure the Tri / Bi lingual differently for different expectation and demand

Yet , in the end, the market will tell the truth....if it is really the case, the student qualities will tell and demand for the school will tell ultimately.

Sorb

Jupiter, your comment:  "while I think it won't make a big difference!  Because after attending their playgroup, I understand that by just having the teacher "presence" is of no use at all, what really matters is how much they involve."  

Strongly agree with your comment above, actually, I know a number of Victoria parents sending their kids to Vic PN (bilingual class) as my kid had joined its playgroup 2 years ago.  We still have close contact after playgroup.  Two of the mums told me exactly your above comments.  Both told me the NET of their kid's class are passive (one in CWB and one in HH campus), will not take the initiative to communicate with the students.  One of the mums who often speak to her kid in English prior to joining PN told me after going to PN for one month, her kid's English level has deteriorated as the Cantonese teacher is very proactive while the NET is passive, thus, all the students like the Cantonese speaking teacher and like to speak to her all the time instead of the NET.  As a result, Cantonese improved a lot while English deteriorated.  Interesting comment.........

原帖由 Jupiter 於 10-4-22 00:01 發表


As I read from their school profile (the booklet they distributed together with the application form), all of their classes starting from K1 are trilingual or bilingual (eng/PTH).  It means if the k ...

Twinboys08

Well ~ I have already submitted the withdrawal letter to upper kornhill Vic PG...can't stand it anymore. Unfortunately, still need to pay for May school fee !

yaulinda

Jupiter,

I feel very satisfied with the Chinese teacher of Vic PG, she's very devoted.

But I feel quite disappointed towards the NET, she day dreams quite a lot,
she does not actively interact with children (of course not parents la), and she does not has the skill on how to encourage the children to pay attention to her.

Luckily that I didn't quit TT yet.