York vs Creative Primary KG ~你地點揀呀?

kenoism

Yes.. it is really hard!!

If you are thinking about primary school linkage... york is better for those traditional primary school, but there will be a lot of pressure on academics as well as learning other things like playing piano, drawing etc.... Also, depends on which one they eventually go to, a lot depends on luck if you rely on 'lucky draw'.. otherwise in 3 years time, have to take them to different schools for interviews again, which is a pain in the bum :)

On the other hand, creative primary school kindergarten can just go straight into creative primary, so don't need to worry about anything. But school fee is really expensive, but still a happy and caring environment.... then if we let them carry on in creative secondary school, because they take IB course, then we may have to send them overseas for university!!

These 2 schools are basically different routes..... so really hard to decide!! n Let me know when you made a decision :)

share123

原帖由 kenoism 於 09-11-30 22:32 發表
Yes.. it is really hard!!

If you are thinking about primary school linkage... york is better for those traditional primary school, but there will be a lot of pressure on academics as well as learning ...

Under the new academic structure (334), students taking IB can also apply for local universities. Therefore, no need to worry if you choose the IB curriculum.

LamSaSaBB

原帖由 kenoism 於 09-11-30 22:32 發表
Yes.. it is really hard!!

If you are thinking about primary school linkage... york is better for those traditional primary school, but there will be a lot of pressure on academics as well as learning ...

Many thanks for your comment and advice kenoism! Actually I am awaiting the result from KV and Keenming, no expection (as my kid is 'small B" but let's see any surprise.  If one of them accept my kid then I may go to it. Good luck to my kid!!!

LamSaSaBB

原帖由 share123 於 09-11-30 23:21 發表


Under the new academic structure (334), students taking IB can also apply for local universities. Therefore, no need to worry if you choose the IB curriculum.

Hi share123, Thanks for your advice.  Could you pls let me know more about IB? Thanks!

share123

原帖由 LamSaSaBB 於 09-12-1 00:52 發表


Many thanks for your comment and advice kenoism! Actually I am awaiting the result from KV and Keenming, no expection (as my kid is 'small B" but let's see any surprise.  If one of them accept my ki ...

If talking about spoken English, SC, Creative Primary will be a better choice. KV has no NET teachers. Most of the NET teachers in Keenmind are Philiphinos. My younger one studied in KM PN. Terrible!

LamSaSaBB

原帖由 share123 於 09-12-1 23:25 發表


If talking about spoken English, SC, Creative Primary will be a better choice. KV has no NET teachers. Most of the NET teachers in Keenmind are Philiphinos. My younger one studied in KM PN. Terrible ...

Oh really! I saw so many teachers are ABC when the interview day.  Their accent is really good and the 'story telling' time is quite attractive.  My first impression is being that their English teacher is good wor!!!!!

BetMar

My girl was also accepted by CPSK am class, and she is now in Victoria (Harbour Green), waiting list for SC, waiting result for KV.  So still struggling shud I choose CPSK or Vic?

share123

原帖由 LamSaSaBB 於 09-12-2 00:04 發表


Oh really! I saw so many teachers are ABC when the interview day.  Their accent is really good and the 'story telling' time is quite attractive.  My first impression is being that their English teac ...

Yes. If you care about the accent, pls don't choose KM. For me, I don't want the Philipino accent anymore. For KV, perhaps your child's English standard is okay, but for spoken....just like us in the past generation...hong kong accent.

You have to decide what's your focus is.

share123

原帖由 BetMar 於 09-12-2 00:33 發表
My girl was also accepted by CPSK am class, and she is now in Victoria (Harbour Green), waiting list for SC, waiting result for KV.  So still struggling shud I choose CPSK or Vic?

Vic is pretty much the same with CPSK. But as far as I know, Vic has less homework than CPSK. The tuition fee of both primary schools are pretty much the same.

LamSaSaBB

原帖由 share123 於 09-12-2 22:31 發表


Yes. If you care about the accent, pls don't choose KM. For me, I don't want the Philipino accent anymore. For KV, perhaps your child's English standard is okay, but for spoken....just like us in th ...

Thanks! We are now awaiting the KV and Keenmind, but my husband like Creative as he prefer let our kid to have a happy and enjoyable kindergarten life.  For me, I am quite concern the linkage of primary school, but also hope she can has a happy school life as she has a long long school like in future.  So "Headache".

kenoism

原帖由 share123 於 09-11-30 23:21 發表


Under the new academic structure (334), students taking IB can also apply for local universities. Therefore, no need to worry if you choose the IB curriculum.

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There is a difference gar.. if you choose the IB route, even though you can still enter any Hong Kong universities, but you will be entering via the non-du route (which means there is less spaces available for the same course as the non-du route is meant for people who studied high school in overseas but want to come back to hong kong for uni.- i.e. for people who did not take the traditional hong kong exams)

Otherwise... if you child cannot enter the non-du places at university, then you will have to send them overseas for university, which is much more expensive.

kenoism

原帖由 LamSaSaBB 於 09-12-1 00:52 發表


Many thanks for your comment and advice kenoism! Actually I am awaiting the result from KV and Keenming, no expection (as my kid is 'small B" but let's see any surprise.  If one of them accept my ki ...

Hey LamSaSaBB....
Any news from KV and KM??
My bb is on waiting list for KV and Victoria ar...
so we now need to decide between york (PM), CPSK (AM) and Cannan (full-day class).
What do you think??
Mine is also small bb la... 24/10

LamSaSaBB

原帖由 kenoism 於 09-12-5 00:48 發表


Hey LamSaSaBB....
Any news from KV and KM??
My bb is on waiting list for KV and Victoria ar...
so we now need to decide between york (PM), CPSK (AM) and Cannan (full-day class).
What do you think??
...

Hi Hi kenoism,
As expected, I am also on waiting list of KV.  Now, I've got 3 offers, York (am), CPSK(am), HKBU (pm).  KM result is not yet recieved.  My husband's preference is CPSK as he want to like to let our daughter to have happy school life and can let her to be a creative girl as he thought a traditional school can't provide any room for kids to have creative thinking.  You know, they are also focus on academic which I know it's so important, but I think even they start from primary is not too late.  As they will have academic school life for more than 10 years after kindergarten.  So my husband believe if we can let her to study in Creative when they are still small as they are still so 'fresh' and it can help them to 'built up' their mind and so helpful for their further school life.  The important is the school enviornment and teacher gave us a very good impression as they are really care of the kid not only "doing" a job whilst York teacher is not really good and really commercial.  One more factor is my husband friend are also come from Creative (kinder/primiary) and they are really smart, talkative, presentable, self-confident and good English.  We are quite appreicate Creative's 'teaching concept', kids should have a happy, enjoyable and creative school life. Actally, the result of lingage of primiary school is quite ood, right!!!  We are still awaiting KM and going to have an interview at 宣追 and may be apply Hip Yan, let's see, but now Creative is our 1st choice.  

LamSaSaBB

原帖由 kenoism 於 09-12-5 00:48 發表


Hey LamSaSaBB....
Any news from KV and KM??
My bb is on waiting list for KV and Victoria ar...
so we now need to decide between york (PM), CPSK (AM) and Cannan (full-day class).
What do you think??
...

One more thing Kenoism, if I were u, may be I will not consider Cannan as there is a lot o negative comment about Cannan, teacher is not good, not really care of kid, some of kids would change school after K1 etc.  They gave a bad impression.  U think think la!

share123

原帖由 LamSaSaBB 於 09-12-5 14:41 發表


Hi Hi kenoism,
As expected, I am also on waiting list of KV.  Now, I've got 3 offers, York (am), CPSK(am), HKBU (pm).  KM result is not yet recieved.  My husband's preference is CPSK as he want to l ...

Dear LamSaSaBB,

If you believe in active learning and participatory approach, CPSK is a much better choice than HKBU. the competition in Hip Yan and 宣道 is even more keen than KV or SC. If at last, you need to choose among the three choices you have in hand, I suggest you choosing either York or CPSK. Don't choose the last one.

LamSaSaBB

原帖由 share123 於 09-12-5 23:29 發表


Dear LamSaSaBB,

If you believe in active learning and participatory approach, CPSK is a much better choice than HKBU. the competition in Hip Yan and 宣道 is even more keen than KV or SC. If at last ...

Thanks for your advice and comment, Share 123!

kenoism

原帖由 LamSaSaBB 於 09-12-5 14:41 發表


Hi Hi kenoism,
As expected, I am also on waiting list of KV.  Now, I've got 3 offers, York (am), CPSK(am), HKBU (pm).  KM result is not yet recieved.  My husband's preference is CPSK as he want to l ...

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Hi LamSaSaBB,

Your bb is also on KV waiting list ar.... i think it is a good thing, because i wasn't keen to put him in KV anyway, and now that they didn't accept him, we can just forget about it and don't need to think about it :)

We were accepted by York (AM) class originally, but because we didn't attend the seminar, we have to re-attend the seminar 2 weeks after the interview, and now that they sent us the offer letter, it says PM class.  So I am still waiting for them to call us back regarding whether it is AM or PM class??  But still have to pay deposit tomorrow....

Did you attend the brain base learning talk yesterday at CPSK?  We went to the talk.. it was really good!!!  It tells us how CPSK teaches the children, how we should train them and teach them at home etc.... really enjoyed it.  They said there is gonna be an open day next sat. at creative secondary school at tseung kwan o, but we may not be able to make it.

I dont know much about cannan, cos no one seems to talk about it on here....
When we went to the interview, everything was very organised, the teacher who interviewed my son was very very nice too... but not sure how good it is in academics/ languages/ specialty with teaching children?

share123

原帖由 LamSaSaBB 於 09-12-5 23:32 發表

Thanks for your advice and comment, Share 123!

Dear LamSaSaBB,

I would like to tell u how happy I was today!! In CPSK, they have poetry arts 2 times a month. My kid has built up a strong foundation for poem reading. When she attended the Trinity Guildhall Rehearsal today, the teacher rated her the highest in class. If her performance is steady in the coming Saturday, the teacher said she will get distinction in the exam. U know, most other participants read in a very Chinese way. Thanks to the training at school, my kid has picked up a relatively native accent to read.

kenoism

原帖由 share123 於 09-12-6 23:47 發表


Dear LamSaSaBB,

I would like to tell u how happy I was today!! In CPSK, they have poetry arts 2 times a month. My kid has built up a strong foundation for poem reading. When she attended the Trinit ...

Hi Share123,

Congratulations!!! Sounds like your little one is very good in spoken english :)
Do you speak english with your baby a lot at home, or did she/he learnt it all from CPSK?
And what is trinity thingy?  Is it an oral exam at school or something??
Well done.. hope she/he will do well coming sat!!

share123

[quote]原帖由 kenoism 於 09-12-6 22:44 發表


Dear  kenoism,

I never speak English with my kid at home. Only the Philipino does. However, my maid's English is terrible. I can find mistakes in every sentence she said.

My kid has good spoken English because of:

1. watching Disney channel (442). She only like to choose English when she watches TV.
2. the input from school. Coz CPSK has a lot of chances to let them speak or perform in front of class, i.e. show & tell. Also, almost 50% of the time is English time. NET teacher is very important to the development of spoken English.

If she can get distinctions in two Trinity exams, I'll buy her a big gift. haha.