very happy to see the message here. We really like York when we attended the interview there ! The teacher is the best from what we have seen (probably we are lucky)!
I do have concerns on their english level as apart from english, every lesson is conducted in Cantonese, and friends have been telling that stafford is much better coz of NET teacher. Now seeing these messages i am so happy !
but one of the problems is that York is a bit far away from us (we live in NT).
York is a very good school, my girl is studying in U3 now, I attend full day course in L2, I joined most of the activities in N1 and L2, Cambridge course is worth to join, in my opinion, just let her learn more before going to P.1. My girl is happy to go to school everyday and love all teachers. Many people said york is commercial, actually I think all private kindergartens are commercial, right! Otherwise, how can they earn money to run their business. York didn't force parent to join their activities, but when you chose private school for your kid, you must want him/her to learn more. My girl got all offers from the P.1 private schools she applied and her friends' results on P.1 applications are good too. I only don't like the schoolbus arrangement, long travel time and too overcrowded.
1./ which month of your girl & her friend's born ?
2./ which primary schools that your daughter got the offer.
3./ how much for the WHOLE day study... i want to verify with you that if there is an 精英班 started from L2 ? Or this 精英班 = 多元智能課程 ?
Sorry for the above points of questions as I do want to pull those supporting to my husband for supporting me to let my girl in ....
I totally agree all your points as stated below.
Thanks & i am looking forward to receive your feedback soon.
Miuccia224
原帖由 lbb 於 09-12-27 11:20 發表
York is a very good school, my girl is studying in U3 now, I attend full day course in L2, I joined most of the activities in N1 and L2, Cambridge course is worth to join, in my opinion, just let her ...
My girl is a born in mid of the year and some of my friends boy/girl born in Sep/Oct/Dec, actually born in Dec is a little bit hard for them to get a seat than a big b (of course some exceptional cases).
I got offer from Good Hope, SFA, TSL and 宣小(just got letter last week) and my friends also got offer from 英華, TSL, SFA...
There is no 精英班 in york, only 多元智能班, it means a whole day class. The class fee is $3600/month including lunch and afternoon tea. Not much other expenses, only one time outing transportation charges, a few hundreds (I can't remember) and some misc charges for drawing class. The fee included cambridge starters course, 活力體操, 畫班, 小小小一面試課程.
i also want to ask the same question, is $3600 an extra fee for this course? Also, I heard that only the smart kids have chance to join this course, how can the school choose the right children? will they have exam in K1?
$3600 is for afternoon class only, they will have the regular class in York in am, and take lunch in York and then take school bus to Stafford to attend the afternoon class (travel around 5 mins). Mon, Tue pm (cambridge course), Wed (gymastic course), thu (drawing course), Fri (Chinese course). The fee included afternoon tea and once a month outing.
It is because they don't have sufficient classroom, so in my time they can only have a full day L2 and U3 class, therefore they will choose the students who are more independent and punctural in class to join the whole day class.
After you apply the whole-day class, the class teacher and 主任will assess the student to see if she/he is suitable for the whole-day class.
After 12nn am session in York, they will have lunch and then go to stafford to take a snap (around 1 hr, but I heard that this year, no more snap for students) and then have afternoon tea and do the homework, afterwards start the pm course...4:00pm class end.