培僑書院

kids626

Rainbowbobo,

We have parents discussed them a couple of days ago.  You can check the previous posts here.

Rainbowbobo 寫道:
1.用什麽形式考入學試?
2.如有面試,請問培僑 interview,問什麼 ?
3.中 or 英面試,
4.有冇筆試?
5.何時接受報名!!
thanks !

betty618

Thanks

abc111

Thanks a lot! hjm

But I want to know about the principal's talk before the kids' performance as I just late for the talk. Can anyone help, please?

hjm 寫道:
I also arrived late so it was just at the end of the Principal's talk.  I think they started with the English lesson demonstration but if I recall wrongly this is what they covered on performances:

English lesson
Putonghua lesson
Music lesson - lower form on what they learn at G1 and G8 on violin

Then more discussion individually or small groups, and touring around the school.

Hope this helps.

baba3506

請教有小孩在培僑書院就讀的家長，
你們是否夫婦都有工作？還是其中一方專責照顧小孩？
聽說有些直資學校會盡量收一些家庭裡其太太是主婦，能有時間陪伴小孩的，其次是祖父母照顧的，靠菲嫞的，機會就小好多。
培僑會否如此？
請賜教。

hjm

difficult to tell...especially they wouldn't ask that question directly (only on the form) so whether they like only families with housewives or working parents we don't know.  

kids626

我地之前都有報其他的直資，但PKC俾我地呢種感覺就比較少，因為另外個間係seminar既時侯花左好多編幅介紹佢地d家長有幾involve係學校既運作度，間接hint左俾人地聽一d preference (個人感覺)。

之但係，唔計家長義工之類，直資學校其實都好希望家長多d參與教導小朋友，尤其係課程設計上，有d功課係需要家長同小朋友互動一齊完成既，所以，亦睇到學校有呢種要求既背後原因。

所以，家長亦需要考慮一下是否能配合。

baba3506 寫道:
請教有小孩在培僑書院就讀的家長，
你們是否夫婦都有工作？還是其中一方專責照顧小孩？
聽說有些直資學校會盡量收一些家庭裡其太太是主婦，能有時間陪伴小孩的，其次是祖父母照顧的，靠菲嫞的，機會就小好多。
培僑會否如此？
請賜教。

swwm

baba3506 寫道:
請教有小孩在培僑書院就讀的家長，
你們是否夫婦都有工作？還是其中一方專責照顧小孩？
聽說有些直資學校會盡量收一些家庭裡其太太是主婦，能有時間陪伴小孩的，其次是祖父母照顧的，靠菲嫞的，機會就小好多。
培僑會否如此？
請賜教。

培僑不會如此的……

可是，我覺得無論就讀那一種學校，媽媽不用工作都是好的。因為有較多時間溝通、陪伴小孩成長，這是非常重要的。不過，現今的社會不是說不工作便可以不工作；還有很多因素影响。但有一句話說得很好，就是「重質不重量」！因此，爸爸的參與、分擔；同樣是非常重要的因素。能替太太分擔，我想家庭會較和睦；太太是不是主婦，已經不再重要。

YY（芝芝媽咪）

個人意見，就算媽媽不用工作，但她將時間放左shopping、high tea上，對小朋友的成長也無乜幫助。去年電影《早熟》中的故事，為人父母都要警惕。

iamgiuliano

I recalled that when the Principal of PKC visited our kids' kindergarten, he mentioned something like "parents should not be tutoring their kids at home after school since it would be too difficult for them to do so in fluent English or Putonghua".  

Having heard that, I guess that working parents would not be in a disadvantageous position.  

Some parents might even think that emotional parents could be a hindrance to their children's education.   Who's not emotional afterall?  Most parents, correct me if I am wrong, being too concerned about their kids would like their kids to be obedient instead of acquiring independent thinking skills.

Parental teaching is good if the parent is emotionally healthy with a balanced life.  Otherwise, it might backfire.  Ever thought of why good swimmers do not want to be teaching their own kids to swim?

My premature conclusion:  schools should not be discriminating against working parents.

betty618

Agreed.

abc111

Hi! all

As Putonghua and English are the medium of instruction of PK, which subjects are taught in English, Putonghua or Cantonese? And is Maths' textbooks and Maths taught in English? How many Chinese, English lessons per week for P.1?

Sorry for so many questions as I want to choose the right school for my kid. Thanks!

3lamma

abc111,

30 lessons per week in total
12 Chinese and English lessons
6 maths lesson (taught in Mandarin)
Art and music, not sure.  The demonstration on the seminar was in Cantonese for music.
All other subjects are taught in Chinese/English lessons.

Heidibaba

abc111,

My daughter (she is now P.1) has 2 English lessons and 2 Chinese lessons everyday.  There are also 2 drama lessons each week in addition to the English lessons.

Both Maths and Chinese are taught in Putonghua and the English and visual arts are taught in English.  The P.E. lesson and the social development lessons are taught in Cantonese.

Heidibaba

hjm

Sounds like a balanced mode.  However shifting from Mandarin to English in maths subject does look very promising as it's best to continue with one language.  I heard about this arrangement as they think it's easier to start with Chinese then 2nd term will be in English.  To the current BU parents, what do you think?

kids626

I think the core consideration should be "whether PKC have a good math program?" Math is about the training of logic thinking and problem solving.  Whether math class is conducted in Chinese or English is not essential, and won't stop your kid from being a good math learner, so long as he/she has interest in this subject.

In fact, math is also a "language" by definition.

abc111

Thanks! 3lamma, Heidibaba

Are there any extra-curricular activities? Can you list out some if any? Are they taken within school hours or after school? Do they need to be paid?

Does PK meet your expectation? Can you tell me the weak part of PK? If you don't want to disclose here, you may PM me.

Thanks a lot!

abc111

Heidibaba

abc111,

Are there any extra-curricular activities? Can you list out some if any? Are they taken within school hours or after school? Do they need to be paid?

PKC has no extra-curricular activities as all extra-curriuclar activities are regarded as formal lessons.  As far as I know, PKC will hire specialists to teach their students and we do not need to pay extra fees for those activities.

Does PK meet your expectation? Can you tell me the weak part of PK? If you don't want to disclose here, you may PM me.

My wife and I are not aggressive on my daughter's academic performance.  In fact, we are more concern on her school life: whether she is happy and enjoy her studying.  My daughter loves to attend her lessons, I am glad to say that PKC is has met our expectation.  

We believe that reading plays an important role in child's education and under the currect traditional educational system, we are unable to squeeze time for leisure reading.  We are working parents and if we let our daughter to attend the traditional schools, we have to review her homework, preparing her dictations and the tests or examination.  I don't think we can have any reading time especially the child needs to go to bed early for school in the next morning.  Every parents have different expectations or reasons in selction the best schools for their children.  You have to decide your case before you select any schools for your children.

Heidibaba

abc111

Heidibaba

Very agree - "We believe that reading plays an important role in child's education...". And I also believe in arousing interest to learn and think independently rather than too much writing and memorise.

Then do you think PKC has done enough in reading aspects such as arousing child's interest to read, has a lot of reading books provided, a lot of reading activities, ...etc.?

And are the teachers in PKC patient with love and care and polite? (as I don't like some traditional teachers who has no smile all the times.) As there are 30 child in a class (not really small class size to my view) and only 1 teacher, do you think the teacher handle well?

Thanks!
abc111

Heidibaba

abc111,

Then do you think PKC has done enough in reading aspects such as arousing child's interest to read, has a lot of reading books provided, a lot of reading activities, ...etc.?

PKC has a bookmax system which encourages their students to read a lot of books.  And this is one of the reasons that I would like to let my daughter to study in PKC.  Of course to encourge reading it is not the only responsibility of the school, I would very doubt if parents watching TV all day after their work upto bedtime will able to arise the child's reading interest even though the school pays effort to encourage their students to read.

And are the teachers in PKC patient with love and care and polite? (as I don't like some traditional teachers who has no smile all the times.) As there are 30 child in a class (not really small class size to my view) and only 1 teacher, do you think the teacher handle well?

My daughter loves to attend her lessons.  I always threaten her by saying that if she does not behave well at home, I will replace her to go to school by myself.  Although she doubt, 在寧可信其有，不可信其無的情形下, she will mind her behaviour immediately (其實細路女真係好易呃 )   She also likes to talk about her school life and her teachers, I believe that her teachers are really good and nice.  I have no contact with the teachers (我比較懶，孩子無事通常都唔會搵學校), however, as children are naive and if they like their schools and like to talk about their teachers, I can think that PKC's teachers are good and care enough to their students.

Heidibaba

abc111

Heidibaba

Thanks for your detailed reply! You have given me confidence to put my kid in PKC. I have sent the application already. Hope my kid can join PKC!