如果10歲就一定會回流返canada，咁應該點選擇好呢？

oneonemama

老公是Canadian, bb七月出世，會自動入加藉。為左小朋友，決定會10年後回流返Canada比小朋友係canada升學。
咁到底係香港呢段時間，係咪一定要比佢入讀IS? 我想bb有個快樂童年，本身亦唔喜歡田鴨式教育，姪女全部係canada返學係好開心，language 好又creative。係咪只有IS 先會用活動教學？如果英文私校如維多利亞，係咪上到小學都會跟返普通小學咁谷學生架？
由於初為人母，乜都唔識，希望大家可以比下意見。

ktschan

Mimihoppe 發表於 14-5-10 22:26
I'm on the same boat too! I'm considering CDNIS, AIS, ESF for my son. He's now 1+ year old. We plan  ...

Same as you, my son is 2 yrs old now.  We will try IS first, if can't get into targeted schools will then switch back to locals...tough game!

Mimihoppe

I'm on the same boat too! I'm considering CDNIS, AIS, ESF for my son. He's now 1+ year old. We plan to move back to Canada , probably Quebec , in a few years time.

ktschan

So glad that someone has started this post. We are on the same boat too, so struggle between local and IS...

sky_chan88

原帖由 jolalee 於 14-04-30 發表
本帖最後由 jolalee 於 14-4-30 08:14 編輯

Thank you so much. You are so supportive. Yes, I have applied Anfield already.

jolalee

sky_chan88 發表於 14-4-30 00:27
We live in Kln side. Not much options here. We didn't even get interview in ICS😭. Kingston a ...

Also apply for Anfield primary. If you apply now you still have a chance. Anfield is a good school too. Some of the school i listed (like JIS) are on the Kowloon side, so just keep looking. There are still many options.

Last year i was in a similar situation as you were. My son has sensory integration issues, flunk most K1 interviews and heading nowhere, so we applied for Anfield primary and everything in between, but most importantly we gave him therapies and trained him at home. This year he passed all 3 interviews (2 of them the same school as last year) so we even have options

If you child does have delays concentrate on therapy both at the centres AND at home. Hope that he can catch up quickly. "依家沒有100%直升架。" is not a correct statement, but i know how desperate you must feel right now. Just hang in there and try your best. Yes, keep all your options open including Canada. Wish you all the best!! 努力!! :easter:

sky_chan88

原帖由 jolalee 於 14-04-26 發表
Of course there is!!

CIS, HKIS, GSIS, CDNIS, FIS, KIS, JIS.... most of the regular international sc ...

We live in Kln side. Not much options here. We didn't even get interview in ICS😭. Kingston and Yew Chung are full now. Guess we will try again for primary.

jolalee

sky_chan88 發表於 14-4-26 11:50
依家沒有100%直升架。

Of course there is!!

CIS, HKIS, GSIS, CDNIS, FIS, KIS, JIS.... most of the regular international schools are through-train!!

ICS is not 直升 but 90-95% of the kids continues from KG to Primary.

jolalee

回覆 oneonemama 的帖子

Even CDNIS only have French lessons starting Grade 5. Would you consider FIS? They are pretty good and not as hard to get into as other IS. However i believe the chinese program there is much weaker.

oneonemama

原帖由 hb12699 於 14-04-26 發表
If you would back to Canada after 10 years, you still have a lot of chance to learn Chinese in Canad ...

Yes, actually I don't worry about his Chinese at all, I am more concern about his English and French. As we might go back to  montreal where French is the 2nd language

oneonemama

原帖由 sky_chan88 於 14-04-26 發表
Kingston and YC一條龍好呀。你一有出世紙就去排啦！

Kingston就入PN 就要比8萬，到升小學又要再比，仲係non refundable, YC 就6個月已經有play group。我心水都係呢兩間。唔知以PN，kindergarten 同直到小學三年班，kingston定yc出色啲呢？

sky_chan88

原帖由 oneonemama 於 14-04-26 發表
所以我都搵定有埋play group嘅IS, 由play group 開始join, 應該入PN 會容易一些吧！
暫時考慮Kingston, anf ...

Kingston and YC一條龍好呀。你一有出世紙就去排啦！

sky_chan88

原帖由 jolalee 於 14-04-26 發表
你仔仔入到的IS kindie 沒有小學中學嗎？點解仲要申請定小學同返加拿大睇定小學？你有沒有報IS龍校? ...

依家沒有100%直升架。

hb12699

If you would back to Canada after 10 years, you still have a lot of chance to learn Chinese in Canada ( Toronto and Vancouver also have a lot of Chinese and HK ppl staying there )
In addition, if you speaking Cantonese to him in Hong Kong , he still have 10 years to learn the Chinese language in Hong Kong via the day to day training.
Finally, if you plan to back to Canada to continue your further education, please focusing the the english writing is essential part to study in Canada which is not the Chinese.

jolalee

sky_chan88 發表於 14-4-26 01:05
我都想分享吓！我個仔快三歳。果時諗求期讀一年英語為主的PN,再等轉IS K1!而今年我地去考K1先知原來好難爭 ...

你仔仔入到的IS kindie 沒有小學中學嗎？點解仲要申請定小學同返加拿大睇定小學？你有沒有報IS龍校?

oneonemama

原帖由 sky_chan88 於 14-04-26 發表
我都想分享吓！我個仔快三歳。果時諗求期讀一年英語為主的PN,再等轉IS K1!而今年我地去考K1先知原來好難爭 ...

所以我都搵定有埋play group嘅IS, 由play group 開始join, 應該入PN 會容易一些吧！
暫時考慮Kingston, anfield 同YC, ESF playgroup comment 太差，所以唔考慮。
雖然bb 7月尾先出世，但我已經預備打電話ask for on site visit

sky_chan88

我都想分享吓！我個仔快三歳。果時諗求期讀一年英語為主的PN,再等轉IS K1!而今年我地去考K1先知原來好難爭！後悔當初唔直接報IS的PN!!原來內地人攞住本大陸passport加唔識廣東話都當佢地外國人可優先！我識十個大陸人，九個入到IS.當然佢地英語冇問題啦！我仔本身一個中文字都唔識。加上speech delay我地更加冇同佢講中文。好彩求請入到間IS. 我巳經驚考唔到小學。能申請定嘅小學學校都apply 晒！真係要排定！我地summer都會返加拿大睇定小學。依家香港太亂。讀書搵個位又咁難。。。做家長真的要plan長遠d.

sky_chan88

原帖由 victoryu19 於 14-04-23 發表
Similar to us.

We are Canadian and will likely send our son back to Canada to continue his educatio ...

Totally same case as me!!! Will change to IS in Sep. If we can't find a suitable primary, we will move back after k2..

gatochat

jolalee 發表於 14-4-25 23:05
Not working full time at this point so that you can spend more time with your children, that is com ...

It's scenario 2!

Btw, I just remembered there is a local free school called Catholic Mission School somewhere in Central.  It has an international class each year and I know a few English speaking families sent there children there and are quite happy.  

jolalee

gatochat 發表於 14-4-25 22:23
Unfortunately I'm not working full time now so my children do not get priority into any of the inter ...

Not working full time at this point so that you can spend more time with your children, that is commendable ;)
Now, let me try to form the full picture here--

Scenario 1-- Given you wrote "my children" so i assume you have at least two kids:
Your elder son is primary age and has been accepted into the new YMCA (international?) primary school. Your younger son is in K2 at Creative Kindie, and he will start applying for local primary school this autumn while he is in LS K3, and will at least have priority into Chan's Creative primary. Worse come to worst he still has sibling priority into YMCA since his elder brother is there.

Scenario 2-- Perhaps you have always been discussing the same son, as in one of your children:
Your son is in K2 at Creative Kindie, and he will start applying for local primary school this autumn while he is in LS K3, and will at least have priority into Chan's Creative primary. At the same time he has been accepted into the new YMCA (international?) primary school. In that case he'd have to either take the IS offer this year, or defer it for a year if possible, while trying out for local primary schools.

Either way at least one of your children is educated in a Chinese medium happy school, which is great. For people who does plan to return home in a few years, i do believe going for a happy LS is a good way to go about it. All the best to your boy's LS Primary application in the coming year, and thank you for sharing your experience so that others can see how this can possibly be done. I am sure there are similar happy LS out there, which just require further research, probably on the regular primary EK forums.