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15分

"Local School", how you interpret it?  "more Chinese and less English" are you sure

WYmom

15分 寫道:
"Local School", how you interpret it?  "more Chinese and less English" are you sure

Yes, "more Chinese and less English" refers to comparison with international schools.  There is a published list of which schools are IS.  If you have doubts, can check with the schools.  I have checked from the school on which subjects are taught in Chinese/ English.

15分

Got what you mean "more Chinese and less English"

Then, all schools in HK should be "Local School".

papa_pop

Fair to say CKY is a local school and not an IS - as the principal has more than once reiterated.

But the difference (or edge as I would say) is that it's a bilingual school too, using English as the primary MOI, complemented with Cantonese (PTH from Y2 onwards) for subjects of Chinese and moral ed. Far as I know, it's "more English than Chinese" as the classroom language.

It's true that students converse in Cantonese outside of the classroom. Anyway, CKY is a school primarily for local Chinese and I don't think foreign kids who don't have a hold of Chinese could catch up with the Chinese standard in the school. Mind you that those few looking 'foreign' or 'mixed' can speak fluent Cantonese.

At the end of the day, you are not buying CKY as an IS, it might share similar approach to education, though.

Audreymom

As I know, CKY Y1 is same as local schools Y1 which intake kids at 6 years old, may I know why your daughter got accepted at 5 only?

WYmom,
As CKY is a private school, it has the flexibility to alter its policy.  I know the school accepts kids who are 3 to 4 months younger than the standard age of entry. i.e. minimum age for student is 5 years 4 months old.

papa_pop

Audreymom,

Correct me if I'm wrong - for the 2007/8 intake, all kids born in (or before) the year 2001 are eligible - regardless it's a govt, subsidised or private school. In other words, the 'youngest' kids could be those born on Dec 31 in that year.

That's why I said there are 'small kids' - those born in the months of Sep to Dec, in my child's class. It happens in other schools too.

Perhaps you can check out the info on the leaflet about the central allocation.

Audreymom

papa_pop,

Not exactly. The school also considers those candidates who are born in Jan to Apr 2002. i.e. 3 to 4 months younger that the official intake age of entry.  

kasinmama

WYmom,

According to the school list provided by my daughter's kindergarten, CKY is a DSS, would you mind to confirm again?

Maman2001

check this --> HKED

Cindy

2007 Year 1 Campus

CKY 聀員指留待教署公佈才可通知家長, 然而何時收到教署通知尚未知曉
各位正選生家長, 可否告知繳交留位費日期呢 ? 有否提及幾時有進一步消息?

Thanks

WYmom

kasinmama 寫道:
WYmom,

According to the school list provided by my daughter's kindergarten, CKY is a DSS, would you mind to confirm again?

100% sure that CKY is private.  You can double check with the school directly.

kyliema2006

1.  For those parents who consider CKY's school fee expensive, I'd say that studying at traditional schools is also costly.  

My friends usually spend a few thousands on private tutoring.  I heard one case that parent spends an average of HKD6K a month, but HKD7K during examination period.  For me, I pay nil on any supplementary academic study, at least I do not need to hire native English speakers and Putonhua speakers to furnish his English and Putonhua.  Is CKY really that expensive, it up to you to judge.  

However, I've to reiterate that we have paid a lot of efforts in fostering reading habbit with my boy, and my boy will feel punished if we do not read books with him that day.


2.  CKY is not a traditional branded primary school, and is not recognized by relatives?!  

However, its name and philosophy has been widely spread and acknowledged in the past four years.  If you truly understand how CKY runs the school, I'm sure that you'll have your grounds to convince/educate your relatives why you choose CKY but not traditional schools.  If you are still wondering the pros and cons of CKY, I'd suggest you spend some time to read the other 'CKY' thread, the lenthy 70 pages is suffice enough for you to understand CKY.


3.  Any further result released?

A friend of mine received a 'waiting list' notification letter yesterday.  Think CKY has been sending out letters these days.

Chau444

JEFFREYPOON,

您好! 我女兒現正讀CKY的YR1, 而她亦是在THINK KINDERGARTEN畢業的, 所以對THINK有一定程度的認識, 大家分享一點意見.

我女兒在THINK是讀雙語班的, 就是因為見到女兒在一中一英班主任制度下學習, 能夠較生活化及自然地學習英語, 我認為此點與CKY的模式十分相似, 而個人亦較重視兩文三語, 不想只側重中文或只是英語, 所以當時CKY是我的首選.

而我不選擇THINK的原因, 因為我覺得九龍塘的校舍應該用作幼稚園較合適, 她們小學部收生情況一般, 尚未形成小學的格局, 小學很多時都會以學校名義領隊外出比賽參觀等, 我有點擔心THINK在此方面的支援. 而最重要是我並非想選擇國際學校, 我只是較喜歡她們的學習模式, 但另一方面我仍然想小朋友在德行方面能較重視, 不會太自由放任.

其實每間學校都有其優缺點, 家長必定要清楚自己想找一間怎樣的學校, CKY與傳統名校有很大的差異性, 如果您真的認同CKY的理念及學習模式, 相信不難作出決定.   

Lis

the PLK Camoes Tan Siu Lin is a DSS school, but PLK CKY is a private. not sure if some parents get mixed up.

also i read a news about 1-2 months ago about the PLK is considering to move all their school to DSS. anyone has any update?

cheers.

NewSnoopy

我想請問大家認為要投考CKY，是否要先選讀英文強的幼稚園，甚至國際班?

雖然我的兒子仍然小，反正我們還未選好幼稚園，希望可以配合將來投考CKY。請指教。

tk1j

Hi, ckwliu and Chocoball,

It will be great if we can arrange transportation together. If the new campus is going to be in the HK side, it will just be too good for us. Let's keep in touch.

Thanks,
tk1j

lemontrees

From my oberservation, there is a large amount of student from CKY are communicate in Chinese in daily life. However, students adopt English environment.