St Mary's Vs St. Paul's Convent

VincentL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hon ... ing_Students_Awards

VincentL

Accumulatively,

Schools by number of Outstanding Student Award winnersRank School No. of Winners

1 Diocesan Girls' School 41
2 Queen's College 21
3 St. Mary's Canossian College 17
4 St. Paul's Convent School 15
5 Maryknoll Convent School 14
6 Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School 12
6 St. Joseph's College 12
8 St. Stephen's Girls' College 10
8 German Swiss International School 10
10 Diocesan Boys' School 7
10 NTHYK Yuen Long District Secondary School 7
10 Sacred Heart Canossian College 7

gwengwen

I was a graduate from St. Mary's and my daughter in SPK. They are both very top schools in HK. However, I can tell the two schools are at two poles.
St. Mary's focus on academic, especially language studies (for exam purpose). Teachers are pushy. ECA prefers music than everything. Happy to receive awards for school. Strict discipline as I was punished for wear stylish socks or 3rd ear rings in my years...
SPC focus on all-rounded training, happy learning. The international students in the school allow better language training especially English oral. They don't really push students to get awards to school but would encourage students to "try". More freedom, but the good result has to depend 90% on the students' self initiative...that's why they teach this since kindergarten years.

Greatmother

Gwengwen,  How would you grade SPC?  You seem to like SPC more than St. Mary's in some aspects.  How's your girl getting on in SPK?  Is that mean you definitely not opting for St. Mary's for your girl as you might have higher points as you were from St. Mary's?

gwengwen

Greatmother 發表於 12-8-16 00:16
Gwengwen,  How would you grade SPC?  You seem to like SPC more than St. Mary's in some aspects.  How ...

Hi Greatmother, I think SPC is a good school, students are free and leisure but with good academic performance. But if you want school support for ECA or competitions, it would be not be easy. That's only my impression coz' my girl is still in kinder. And SPC is a private school so the school has more freedom to design her own teaching program.
My girl just applied and got accepted, no relationship no religion. I've got SC offer that time so just made it a try after my friend told me SPK has Primary & Secondary back-up. I thought no hope to get a seat after the interview since it was so quickly done, and she was not speaking good Cantonese at that time
I won't say 100% not opting for SMCC. SMCC is a good school but I experienced the "bookworm" years...I want my girl to be more multi-talented and have more exposure to other things than solely acadmic. Also, we are not Catholic, so only 20 points, not really that competitive in 1st round.

Monghar

Greatmother,
I totally agree with gwengwen on SPC. My daughter also study at SPK now. They are very relax and teaching them to self learning and independent even in kindergarten time.  The kinder training is simple and good.  Easy for them to pick up to get use to their primary school requirement and daily needs.

Greatmother

Thanks Gwengwen and Monghar for your SPC sharing!!

I have more confident on SPC now.