IB學校 (英語教學) VS 國際學校

chowrkl

Hello all,

想問下 IB學校 (用英語教學) & 國際學校 之間有什麼分別?

How does a school get defined as international school? Is it just because it is more overseas students?

想知道我應該要送仔仔去本地IB學校 or International School

Thanks!

Shootastar

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All major English speaking countries, as far as I know, accept AP / SAT as college entrance qualification. Those countries include Australia, Canada and UK.
In fact, as a college entrance qualification, AP/SAT is as good as IB.

Shootastar

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Save the Chinese Education system, the highest candidates who take part in the college entrance examination is AP and SAT. As such the US college entrance qualification is recognized worldwide for college entrance purpose save that a small number of UK colleges (probably 2 to 3) which do not accept AP and SAT as college entrance qualification for medicine course.
In Hong Kong, all universities recognized AP/SAT as college entrance qualification.

chowrkl

Any comments can be shared on 啟思？ I heard it is a happy school, but is it at the cost of teaching quality? Also noticed the instruction language at primary school is Chinese, the website doesnt even have an English version (not sure if I have missed anything). What is the English ability like of their students?

poonseelai

原帖由 lckfwylyk 於 16-01-08 發表
may i know how the case would be if my kid’s school runs AP/SAT (US curriculum)? 1. do universities ...

HK - apply via non jupas system; UK - apply via UCAS.

momo_cheung

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robocorn

thank you for sharing

lckfwylyk

原帖由 Shootastar 於 16-01-08 發表
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IB qualification is worldwide recognised. All local universities accept IB dip ...

may i know how the case would be if my kid’s school runs AP/SAT (US curriculum)? 1. do universities in HK recognize it? 2. how about foreign universities in other countries other than in US like UK? thanks in advance for the info.

貝珠

原帖由 robocorn 於 16-01-08 發表
我都想問問如果  考IB課程，可否報香港的大學呢？分數認可嗎?

Non jupas system . 但有些學系如中大醫學院限制了non jupas 入醫科的比例.

Shootastar

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IB qualification is worldwide recognised. All local universities accept IB diploma as their entrance qualification.

robocorn

我都想問問如果  考IB課程，可否報香港的大學呢？分數認可嗎?

poonseelai

chowrkl 發表於 16-1-4 21:06
Guys thanks again. We are really just looking at primary schools now, coz we are more likely to retu ...

You may refer to VSA's website for brief introduction to PYP:


http://www.vsa.edu.hk/en/IB-PYP.aspx

Radiomama

根據你的要求，提供PYP而又不是國際學校的話，就只有維多利亞(VSA)和啟思(Creative Primary School)了。

chowrkl

Guys thanks again. We are really just looking at primary schools now, coz we are more likely to return overseas when he finishes primary school.
We are unlikely to send him to an international school, so will target the schools that offer PYP (the non international ones).
In your opinion, are they going to be much different from those local schools instructed in English?

Mighty

不知為何楼主在意中史、其実国際学校学生対中文興趣一般不大、読好中文、已経是天大喜事、若小朋友対歴史真的有興趣、中文好了、就可以自己看歴史書。　我女是Y９、有読HISTORY,也有COVER中国部分歴史、她対始皇帝的興趣非常大、但是要英文来読的。

acdad

chowrkl 發表於 15-12-24 22:03
想佢中文好係比較international school來講, 學Chinese方面我地priority係咁1. 䛊中文先,2.䛊普通話同簡體 ...

PYP
http://www.renaissance.edu.hk/content/chinese-1

MYP
http://www.renaissance.edu.hk/content/chinese

Suggest to visit the respectve schools' websites to learn about this.

Radiomama

IB提供PYP(小學）、MYP(中學）及DP(預科）課程。在香港提供PYP及DP的學校較多，反而MYP較少。

PYP時期，一如大部分國際學校，不太分科；以啟新為例：中文、英文、數學、音樂、體育、美術，似外便是unit of inquiry, 每年六個單元。學校的安排是由class teacher任教英數和unit of inquiry, 其他節數較少的科目就由専科老師擔任。

中文科一個星期五節；ESF系統因應學生程度分不同pathway授課。

國際學校的學生一般抗拒中文，中學時代有幸入到Chinese group A, 在沒有補習的情況下，有點拉牛上樹。不過小兒感到困難，可能別人覺得容易，不能作凖。入IBO的website查閲IBDP的中文卷sample吧。

ratafan

The choice of subjects come when you start to embark on the 2 year IB diploma programme which ultimately takes you to the public exam. There are strictly speaking 3 stages in IB: PYP (primary), MYP (middle school) and IB diploma.
You don't need to take PYP and MYP to take IB diploma. But since IB diploma involves a couple of long essays (ToK and a 4000 words extended essay) and therefore schools tend to prepare the students the necessary skills well ahead in primary or middle school.
Some international schools or non IS IB schools like CKY in HK offer Igcse in year 10 and 11 followed by IB diploma in year 12 and 13, while some offer IB all the way up from PYP (primary) and some only from MYP
Alternatively there is an IS which only offers IB diploma called Li Po Chun United world college.
In IB diploma you need to choose 6 subjects. IB emphasises holistic development of a person and therefore the 6 subjects must involve languages (usually English and one more language), maths, science and humanities, plus optional subjects within creative art.
And then you have to choose standard level and higher level. Some schools encourage students to take 3 high 3 standard.
Languages are also classified into A and B, being first and second

chowrkl

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Radiomama, when you said the Chinese subject gets quite hard in secondary, how hard does it get?

chowrkl

Thanks everyone for your sharing.

We have done more research on IB curriculum, and found out there are not many non international primary schools offer IB.

We understand IB students need to choose subjects (e.g. 2 language subjects), do they need to choose subjects in primary school too? Or are all subjects pretty much "fixed" by the curriculum in primary? Or does it depend on the school itself?