Singapore International School

elmostoney

個日同我姑奶講起, 問佢覺得esf academics如何 (佢3個kids都係esf讀緊中學同小學).  quote 佢話一般啦, 咁多間esf total 有成萬幾人, 梗有幾個考得出眾嘅.  unquote  leehoma, 唔係我講架, 我都係quote人地咋, 唔好開炮呀.  你d火藥味好重, 真係怕怕.  我post出來係想同大家share下咋.

WYmom

elmostoney 寫道:
個日同我姑奶講起, 問佢覺得esf academics如何 (佢3個kids都係esf讀緊中學同小學).  quote 佢話一般啦, 咁多間esf total 有成萬幾人, 梗有幾個考得出眾嘅.  unquote  leehoma, 唔係我講架, 我都係quote人地咋, 唔好開炮呀.  你d火藥味好重, 真係怕怕.  我post出來係想同大家share下咋.

I think you are trying to start fire even though you are not SIS parents.  I suggest you do more research first before giving such comments.  There are 12000 students, yet not 12000 students will take the public exam at the same time.  I know you prefer SIS, that does not mean that you have to step on others with a lot of so-called comments about ESF you HEARD from your 3 nieces!!!! ( a sample of 3 out of 12000!!!)

WYmom

thankful,

If you want to fire leehoma, pls use your own original words.  I am talking to elmostoney!  Pls don't "use" my words to attack others!  

WYmom

thankful,

I understand your feelings, but I believe that you are a sensible and responsible person.  It is really meaningless to attack each other's school endlessly.  We all agree that SIS and ESF are both good schools, and they are suitable for different types of kids and parents with different expectations.  I have a lot of friends studying in different IS or local schools and hope to learn the good things from others to improve more.

Hope we all resume back to rational discussions.  There are already 2 new threads opened by other parents to discuss about SIS.  It will be better to use your first hand experience to help other new comers.

emily06

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elmostoney 寫道:
個日同我姑奶講起, 問佢覺得esf academics如何 (佢3個kids都係esf讀緊中學同小學).  quote 佢話一般啦, 咁多間esf total 有成萬幾人, 梗有幾個考得出眾

WYmom

thankful,

Yes, I know it.  Thanks for sharing.

elmostoney

hi emily,

the reasons why my sister-in-law chose esf were (and still are):

1.  proximity to her home
2.  her objective - not to spend a lot of her time with her kids on homework.  whichever area she feels ESF is insufficient, she lets her kids have after school tutoring (mostly math and Chinese).
3.  well-being and happiness of her kids
4.  tuition (generally cheaper among the better known IS)

我又唔覺得我唔可以base on 我d外甥女講返佢地d情況.  1.  冇人可以話自己做哂12000人嘅assessment, 係唔係?  咁個個都係base on自己身邊嘅observation, 包括leehoma都係猛quote返佢自己個仔嘅情況.  就係唔同人講唔同野先有唔同view, 如果個個都講d好野, 咁先唔全面, 係唔係.
2.  我又唔係一定揀sis喎.  in fact, 我會wait out esf個新中文curriculum, 睇定d先.  我個女先6個半月, 大把時間.  我唔洗揀定.  我就係見到有唔同嘅sis comment (包括leehoma個d), 我先會諗多d.  unlike有d人好pro某間學校 (因為佢地d kids已經讀緊), 我冇呢個包袱.  bad and good comments 我都想睇, 其實我覺得如果有d係個間學校讀緊又有negative comments嘅, 個d仲真實啦.  間問學校都有好有唔好架啦, 不過睇你點揀姐.

WYmom

elmonstoney,

Of course no one will do assessment on all students, I won't object to your negative comments, but I see that you are not assessing the academic results objectively and it is very unfair to the ESF students who really did very well if compared with other IS students as they are not screened academically.  You also did not quote from your first head experience, while parents of SIS and leehoma are quoting their first hand experience, which are more reliable.

ESF is more relax in primary, but more rigorous in secondary, as they are developing all concepts in Maths in a way very different from local schools, local parents will not be satisfied with their progress.   Anyway, you may not understand this well as your kid is so small.  Really suggest you assess any school more objectively.

SIS or CIS will definitely fit your needs better if you want high Chinese and Maths standard.

If you want to fire more at ESF, you can definitely go on, better open a new topic for it or do it in ESF's topics.  I think SIS parents are not interested in so much discussion of another school here.

emily06

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elmostoney 寫道:
hi emily,

the reasons why my sister-in-law chose esf were (and still are):

1.  proximity to her home
2.  her objective - not to spend a lot of her time with her kids on homework.  whichever area she feels ESF is insufficient, she lets her kids have after school tutoring (mostly math and Chinese).
3.  well-being and happiness of her kids
4.  tuition (generally cheaper among the better known IS)

我又唔覺得我唔可以base on 我d外甥女講返佢地d情況.  1.  冇人可以話自己做哂12000人

一條毛

Leehoma001,

I think you have finish the 'Indepth' research on GSIS and descided that you keep your son in QBS.

This is a good decision and I strongly support you. This is not because of QBS is better than GSIS, but I have the same feeling as wskwok, especially when your son is having improvement and there is a 6 month probation policy in GSIS.

You have no need to convince yourself that you have made a correct decision by making others to agree that ESF is the best school by stepping on others saying that they are not "real" international school or that they are not "elite" international school (sorry thankful, I haven't asked your permission to use your wording). Of course, you can freely express your view, but please don't just say xxx is better than yyy, zzz is not an elite or real international school without stating the reasons and real facts (may be this is more important)  behind. This will not be helpful to the parents who are looking for school for their kids. Parents select a school must have lots of reasons behind not just the school is better, elite or real. I believe that ESF is the best school for your boy but it may not be others.

I think you should keep Daydream's words: '在現實世界裡，有重要的工作等

florence

hi yyyy,

今天亞女參加了朗誦節的比賽, 她和她的partner表現得非常合拍和淡定, 評判給她們的評語很好, 最後她們在差不多70名的參賽者中成為4位甲等級中的其中兩位, 我和她partner的媽媽的心情都很興奮, 很難想像她們只有5歲多, 便可以表現得那麼好, 老師的功勞真是最大. 她利用小朋友到playground玩的時間幫她們練習, 在短短的時間就有那麼好的表現, 我真的為我女兒感到很驕傲呢 !!

yyyy

florence,
多謝妳告訴我, 真的很替妳開心. 很多時聽到local school的媽咪說請假帶d小朋友去參加朗誦比較,但又不見sis有這方面資料, 我以為sis沒有參加,原來是有的.恭喜妳女女呀!她真的很有表演天份!叻女! 我都期望緊細女返學後好似妳個女咁快識唱馬拉文國歌我聽呀!細女比家姐喜歡說話!

我女女這幾天跟學校去了西貢的outward bound!所有5年班都可以去的, 如果唔去就不用上學,她未出發已很興奮!我覺得法國之旅對她真的有很大的影響, 獨立了很多, 成熟了些許!

florence 寫道:
hi yyyy,

今天亞女參加了朗誦節的比賽, 她和她的partner表現得非常合拍和淡定, 評判給她們的評語很好, 最後她們在差不多70名的參賽者中成為4位甲等級中的其中兩位, 我和她partner的媽媽的心情都很興奮, 很難想像她們只有5歲多, 便可以表現得那麼好, 老師的功勞真是最大. 她利用小朋友到playground玩的時間幫她們練習, 在短短的時間就有那麼好的表現, 我真的為我女兒感到很驕傲呢 !!

florence

hi yyyy,

Sis是應該每年都有學生參加比賽的, 以我所知, 小學部都有參加朗誦比賽…
真的期望個女可以快d長大, 到她可以同老師同同學出trip, 參加outward bound, 我相信她一定興奮到暈……

Leisurefan

Dear SIS parents,

May I know when the school will send out the interview letters? I noticed that they still haven't banked the cheque for the application fee.

Regards

ultravox

Hi
I called the school and the admission's office said interview letters will be sent out in early Feb.  The interview for PY1 will start after CHinese New Year.  So we should get the letters soon.

May I know how old your child is?  Mine just turned 3 last December, so if she gets in, she will be the youngest in class.  

I hope she gets in as her brother is there too.....

Michelle

Leisurefan

Hi ultravox,

My daughter turned three at the end of September, so she's not much older than yours. SIS's cut-off date is end of the year, so there should not be the problem of 'big girl, small girl' as with local schools. I also hope my daughter could be admitted so her younger brother could get in more easily, too. Let's hope that our kids could become classmates.

Cheers