Do you think only those who have connection can enter famous Int'l school?

daisy17772

原帖由 edexp 於 10-1-26 22:02 發表
我並沒有任何 interest, 只是知道事實(指那些top IS)。我知道不少名人如何努力也入不到，有些試完又試，三、四次才考得上，同樣我隨時可話你知我識嘅成班在top IS嘅學生(超過幾十人)，全部(或絕大部份)只是一般中產或以上，絕非 famous or with strong background，這些都是事實。

你話自己知道啲所謂嘅 fact, 除非是你自己靠走後門，難度是那些靠走後門嘅家長話你知佢地靠走後門?或是那些校長、老師們話你知佢地賣人情?

唔好嗡得出就嗡，不要胡亂指控別人/學校走後門/賣人情。

Hey stay calm, you need not be this reactive if you're genuinely sharing what you know about.  This is a place for public discussion with lots of so called rumours, facts, truth, etc.    It's useless to prove if one's 嗡得出就嗡 or they know the truth and know a whole lot of ppl in IS to prove this is fake, blah blah blah.  I won't ask someone to prove what they said in a public forum. You believe in it, then you take it, you don't believe in it, just leave it behind.  Furthermore, you should read carefully what I shared about, I was not talking about the general phenomena.

Take it easy.

[ 本帖最後由 daisy17772 於 10-1-26 22:31 編輯 ]

InitialD

Lets define which is top tier school first before quoting example.

原帖由 daisy17772 於 10-1-26 22:27 發表


Hey stay calm, you need not be this reactive if you're genuinely sharing what you know about.  This is a place for public discussion with lots of so called rumours, facts, truth, etc.    It's useles ...

ACDW23

what are the qualities of the children that top ISs are looking for during the assessment especially for young children of 2-3, 3-4 years old?  can any successful parents share?

daisy17772

原帖由 edexp 於 10-1-27 10:43 發表
你才需要 stay calm, 比我質疑兩句就陣腳大亂，前言不對後語，自相矛盾。

//就是因為"This is a place for public discussion" ，當見到一些人亂咁散播謠言，胡亂指控，不論那些人是另有目的或只是愚眛無知，有識之士定當挺身而出，以正視聽。 ...

當見到一些人亂咁散播謠言，胡亂指控，不論那些人是另有目的或只是愚眛無知，有識之士定當挺身而出，以正視聽。


首先，若你真的認同討論之要點不是general phenomena，跟本就無需試圖反駁我。...若不認為是general phenomena, 亦跟本就沒有討論價值，...

Interesting to see that you take this so personal. If you think mine has no 討論價值, why do you continue to response then.  <有識之士定當挺身而出，以正視聽>  really?!!  

I won't go further here, there's no value to continue non-constructive talk.



[ 本帖最後由 daisy17772 於 10-1-27 23:14 編輯 ]

oooray

好似係度拗緊有冇鬼魂存在咁。呢味野信則有不信則無。
edexp說未見過；daisy又話好猛；
edexp叫daisy攞證據出黎；證明鬼魂o既存在...
當然冇人攞倒隻鬼出黎做證，咁edexp又要變成<有識之士>，<挺身而出，以正視聽>；
但係edexp未見過鬼也拿不出鬼魂不存在o既證據...
點收科?

daisy17772

原帖由 oooray 於 10-1-27 14:07 發表
好似係度拗緊有冇鬼魂存在咁。呢味野信則有不信則無。
edexp說未見過；daisy又話好猛；
edexp叫daisy攞證據出黎；證明鬼魂o既存在...
當然冇人攞倒隻鬼出黎做證，咁edexp又要變成，；
但係edexp未見過鬼也拿不出鬼魂不存在o既證 ...

就像信不信由你 law !

[ 本帖最後由 daisy17772 於 10-1-27 14:14 編輯 ]

yuenszewing

Sorry. I am the one who initiate this topic and unfortunately it creates a long debate.

Actually I would like to know if it is a fair game and is there any special training or techniques that we can increase the chance of admission?

E.g. there are some trainings for interview, is it worth to attend? Those successful families, how you train your kids to increase the chance? Do you prepare some mock up assessment or interviews at home? Any particular practice or training to increase the success rate.

I am not trying to find some excuses for the unsuccessful interview of my daughter. On the contrary, I would like to understand more on how to succeed.

Appreciate any parents whose kids are currently studying in those good Int'l schools can share.

Pianokc

Contrary to what you think.....to be successful in getting accepted by good IS schools .....I have learned (this is my opinion).... it has to do with the personality and attitude and mentality of the child, as oppose to the "academic" training most "local" parents think is the key to success.

After my kids have switched from local school, to now IS... I am NOW also learning how to be a supportive IS parent.

It's very hard to explain. The whole concept of education in IS school is different from local system.

One easy to understand example, and this has taken more than 2 years for me to understand and accept and now I finally took the step.

My daughter started Kumon at first, and then after 8 months, I quit her Kumon, and switched to Enopi and it's been over 2 years at Enopi.

It has NOT helped much, in fact, it's kept my daughter fixed in a "frame". She can't get out of the "fixed frame" when doing math.

And her teacher at her present IS is DEAD on about her weakness in just teaching her one term. I have to QUIT her Enopi now.
Instead, the way to help my daughter is to play more board games, to play more dice games, to play more snakes and ladders to she can learn to bond two numbers quickly. I am advised to "cook" with my 3 year old.... to ask him to measure spoons of sugar, or flour, to mix in certain direction, to make shapes of cookies..... etc.

I can't explain further, but I get it. Hope this example gives you an idea what I am getting at.

I am trying VERY hard to undo the "frame of mind" and methods that have been planted in my kids' minds, and my own. It takes time, but it's starting to work.

This is the most exciting, and happy times in my household. My kids learned ALOT more than before, and they keep saying they LOVE school.

Each day they come home, they want to show us what they learned, and they will talk about things from nature, to weather, to manners, to numbers, to spelling games, to reading maps, to learning shapes and what you can do with them, and where you can find them in daily life....

It's great.

So, don't focus your child on academics like sit down exercises and memorizing how to speak and answer.... it's all about being a "well rounded" person, knowledge, thinking, curiosity, imagination, creativity, and being observing what's around us.....

It's alot more work, and alot more time is required than dictation, drilling spelling, and doing math exercises.....

Just my two cents.

BUT schools like GSIS..... once you get to the grades beyond Kindergarten, you DO need to traing your child academics as well, like reading, writing stories, math...... AS well as what I mentioned above.

Successful IS applicants also tend to be quite verbal, and assertive, and not shy. Just my observations.

[ 本帖最後由 Pianokc 於 10-2-1 02:42 編輯 ]

daisy17772

原帖由 Pianokc 於 10-2-1 02:39 發表
And her teacher at her present IS is DEAD on about her weakness in just teaching her one term. I have to QUIT her Enopi now.
Instead, the way to help my daughter is to play more board games, to play more dice games, to play more snakes and ladders to she can learn to bond two numbers quickly. I am advised to "cook" with my 3 year old.... to ask him to measure spoons of sugar, or flour, to mix in certain direction, to make shapes of cookies..... etc.  ...

Me too, I trained my little girl math with board games, although she's okay with the calculating formula math.  What kind of board games and dice games?  

thanks

erichkl

My daughter just got offer of Y1 from RCHK.  She's my first daughter.  Both my wife and me almost know nothing about any prepration required for primary school interview.  We didn't arrange any interview class for her.  Of course, we don't have any "connection" with RCHK at all, too.

What we knew from notes written by the teacher in her kindergarten's handbook was that there were 2 rounds of games after I've applied RCHK.  The first round was called "screening".  Someone from RCHK paid a visit to the kindergarten to do some "observation" on those kids who applied for RCHK.  They would tell you the date of their screening before it happened.  The 2nd round was the formal interview taken place in RCHK.  On the interview day, she was grouped with other kids arranged in the same timeslot (30 mins) and sent to some classroom.  The group size was around 6 ~ 8, I didn't remember clearly.  We (parents) were sent to another classroom to attend a short briefing by the principal.  Don't worry, the principal didn't challenge or test you anything.  He'd just arranged a simple presentation to you, and there was an Q&A section after all.  But, the 30-minute duration was not enough for sure.  The parents of the next timeslot were already waiting outside when the principal just started the Q&A section.

In both 'screening' and 'interview' rounds, we didn't know what happened to our daughter.  We didn't make any preparation for that.  But, the most important thing I guess is "don't make your kid cry" in the morning of those 2 important days, no matter how naughty she/he is.  Her emotion could turn success into failure.

After 4 years of bringing our daughter up, our experience told us that she succeeded not because of any extra-curriculum courses (we didn't arrange closely packed course schedule to her).  The most important thing is to arrange her in an international kindergarten (over 90% of time is English-speaking environment).  Read English story books to her at home, and let her watch English DVDs (I mean those DVDs for education purpose.  The well-known one produced from Dixxxx World of Engxxx).  I think this is good for her as we're not English native speakers.  Start this practice since her birth.  I don't know this is the best way, but I think this is one of the useful ways.  We did send her to some tuition classes, like drawing, piano, ballet and even Chinese classes.  We tried different classes for her just aiming to find out her interest and strengths.

In the RCHK briefing seminar for those parents who applied for RCHK, they always emphasized NOT to arrange any "interview courses" to the children because it's useless to the interview.  They'd pay attention to observe the English competence of the children through different games and interaction activities throughout the interview.  They would request the children to draw sth and ask some questions about what they drew.  The important thing is not what they drew, but whether the children could make conversation with the teachers during the interview.

No need to prepare thick profile for the application.  I didn't.  I did the app. online, and just filled the necessary contact information.  There are some questions in the online app. form asking you how would you do to help bringing up the children, and whether you would like to participate the activities organised by the school.  I just wrote less than 100 words overall.

Hope my experience is useful to you and others who plan to apply for IS for their children.

daisy17772

原帖由 BookloverJ 於 10-2-1 17:52 發表


You won't be surprised why he behaves like that if you know actually who he is:-

edexp = wisekid2007

wisekid2007, I barely remembered "he/she" is an IS parent??      

oooray

原帖由 edexp 於 10-2-2 10:49 發表
如果你留意我嘅發言，我的意思不是冇鬼魂存在，而只是極之極之例外嘅情況，才會見到鬼呀，而某某則講到好普遍，係 general phenomena，我先至叫某某攞證據出黎睇睇。如果真的咁普遍，應該我同你隨時都見到鬼啦

...

你沒有陰陽眼也不能排除其他人有。
我只係八卦搭訕；非常好奇呢味野都可以花咁長編大論去辯論；證明閣下能耐與眾不同。

oooray

原帖由 edexp 於 10-2-2 11:12 發表
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