st mary or 協恩

芯朗

我亦想問各位媽媽, 如只得15分, 是否入協恩或st mary有困難?

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YES!

芯朗 寫道:
我亦想問各位媽媽, 如只得15分, 是否入協恩或st mary有困難?

anxiousparent

St. Mary's is after all a school with longer tradition and better established track record, and I can expect competititon to be keener, but there is little way of knowing whether 15 points are too low.  

Does anyone know the "spread" of people with 25 and 20 points.  If the number of people with 25 points exceeds the number of spaces then there will be no hope for those with 20 (or 15).  If there are "leftover" spaces after 25 points, then it will be the turn of those with 20 points.   I remember someone did a survey of the approximate number of people with 25 points or with siblings here but I cannot find it.  Can anyone help?

Enchante

100% YES

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芯朗 寫道:
我亦想問各位媽媽, 如只得15分, 是否入協恩或st mary有困難?

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Christie媽咪

heep yunn school

anxiousparent

Actually it would help us all if everyone can indicate why they chose one school over the other.  For me, I would choose St Mary's.  Girls from both schools are quite well mannered and well taught, and academically they are both quite sound.  St Mary's may have the extra edge of having a longer history/tradition, and bigger "name" (Fanny Law was a graduate).

serinawoo

But how can I know how many people have 20+ points?

Also, according to 小學精選(荷花)，they said:
整個小一入學統籌辦法分為「自行分配學位」及「統一派位」兩個階段。
自行分配學位分２類：
第一類　
－　供有兄弟姊姊或父母在該小學就職的申請人
－　此類申請佔學校３０％小一學額
－　未有用盡的學額（少於３０％），可由學校根據「計分辦法準則」分配。
－　若有不足的學額（多於３０％），以原本預留作「統一派位」的學額填補
第二類
－　根據「計分辦法準則」分配
－　得分最高者即可取得學位
－　就算申請人分數相同，而申請人數也超過學校剩餘的自行分配學位的學額，只需由教統局或學校作電腦抽籤
－　這類學位不少於學校小一學額的２０％
－　學校須按照「計分辦法準則」甄選學生
統一派位：
未能獲自行分配學位的兒童，會自動參加統一派位。
－　約佔學校５０％小一學額

I want to know how many people get 20+, so that I can know the chances of getting to St. Mary's is big or small.

Cherrymuima

For this year 2005, I understand from my friend that she could only get an offer from Heep Yunn with 20 marks in waiting list. i.e. You definitely cannot get an offer with 15 mark or lower

AKLAMY

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AKLAMY

我朋友是DGS 中學畢業的, 她對我所講的和Cleo 講的情況一樣!

redapple 寫道:
Cleo:
' never expect DGS can nurture and build up the kid's interests or other talents. It is the other way round. The school will pick up those all are already talented, e.g. good at singing and good at playing piano in their school team even in Form1.'

I want to know more about your information about DGS . Focus on student already talented?How about others?  Many thanks.

Eva

In fact, I could choose both of them two years ago and my daughter is now studying in Heep Yunn P.2 now.  I dare not choose St. Mary because I don't want to study with her together.

Finally, I am very happy to make this decision because of the bad experience of my husband's sister-in-law whose daughter was studying in St. Mary P.2 at that time.  

I am also happy to have this decision after watching the 56th H.K. School Speech Festival (for P.1 to P.3 only, group, in English).  Although I don't know if St. Mary has got any prize and Heep Yunn got the 3rd prize only, Heep Yunn's performance was really more lively and attractive than St. Mary (of course, this is my own opinion, maybe bias because of my daughter's school ^_^)  

Does anyone watch this competition and have my same feeling? Do you know which schools are the 1st and 2nd?

WYmom

Eva,

I know that St. Mary used to have better academic results than Heen Yunn, but HY is stronger in sports.  Is the workload in HY less than St. Mary? Is the English standard of HY par with St. Mary?

Thanks.

BillyM

Eva,

May I ask you to share the story of your husband's sister-in-law?  I have heard many unhappy stories of the pupils of this school too.

I firmly believe that you have made a good choice for your daughter.

Jokey2828

Hi Eva,

St. Mary's is a Catholic school in Net 31, and Heep Yunn is a Christian school in Net 34. How could you choose BOTH of them 2 years ago? Would you tell us your story?

Eva 寫道:
In fact, I could choose both of them two years ago and my daughter is now studying in Heep Yunn P.2 now.  I dare not choose St. Mary because I don't want to study with her together.

Eva

Hi all moms asking me question,

Actually, my husband's sister-in-law's daughter's story was not too special, just likes too many homeworks and dictations etc.  

In that year, maybe the counting system suddenly changed dueto SARS or because of her daughter was not smart enough to handle, she was asked to repeat P.2 for 3 marks less only.  Her mother wanted to discuss with the teachers to see if she could be promoted to P.3 (because the teacher said that she was not bad in many parents days before).  The teacher said that only the head mistress could make decision.  The headmistress only talked with her by phone and said that it was already a great offer for her to repeat instead of kicking her out.  She refused to meet her face to face even she standed outside her office over an hour.  The headmistress just called the staff outside her office to send her away.

In my opinion, as a head mistress, she should be cosiderate and respect all parents.  It would be more reasonable and normal for her to see my relative, to explain and to comfort her even the decision cannot be changed.  Therefore, do you remember last time that a mother brough her two daughters staying  outside the school for many hours just for requesting to see the teacher/head mistress only.  Just another version!!! but more extreme!!!

Also, teachers there encourage you to employ parttime teachers if you have no time to take care of your kids' homework.

All above is heard from my relative only and 2 years ago.  I heard that not too many homeworks as before now, therefore, better to ask the current in-schools.

I dare to say, you can go to any school if you know someone with power inside or someone with relationship inside (but must in first round)!  Marking?! for public only!!

Sorry, I have to clarify that I gave up St. Mary in first round because I know that I am not that kind of parents who are smart and willing to pay great efford into their kid's school life.  Heep Yunn was really from lucky draw ^_^

BillyM

Eva,

Thanks for the sharing.  I've heard similar stories before.

Jokey2828

Hi Eva,

Thank you for your sharing. Your daughter was very lucky. She had won Mark Six twice in a year!

Eva 寫道:

I gave up St. Mary in first round because I know that I am not that kind of parents who are smart and willing to pay great efford into their kid's school life.  Heep Yunn was really from lucky draw ^_^

bau

As I know, if you got St mary in first round, only you give up the place so that you can enter the lucky draw, so you mean you gave up the seat before you are sure that you got a seat in HY? You have to take a big risk as it is not guarantee you can have a seat in lucky draw.

Or you really don't want your girl to study in St Mary?  but why you choose it in first round you can choose HY instead?  (just curious)

Eva

"Quote: I dare to say, you can go to any school if you know someone with power inside or someone with relationship inside (but must in first round)! Marking?! for public only!!"

Maybe I cannot express it clearly in English.  With reference to the above, I though that you will understand what I am talking about!!

The fact is that:  I have a relative can help me to St. Mary, but I must give up to try Heep Yunn in the big lucky draw and choose St. Mary in the first round  i.e. I cannot return to St. Mary untill fail in my big lucky draw.  

Actually, I did not know which one is better at that time, but my helpful relative said that both are good (his daughter is graduate of St. Mary few years ago).  I preferred Heep Yunn after consulted my husband's sister-in-law and her daughter for fear of great studying pressure.  

Therefor, When I knew that I won the lucky draw, I really cried because I did not know why I dared to take such risk and did not know what to do once failed.

Eva

昨天在一本過期雜誌看見一篇何謂名校的文章. 是在明報回答家長如何選校的那位校長寫的,一時忘記了他的明字:

大意是: 可以叫名校的必需要1) 歷史要耐; 2) 要出過明人; 3) 唔記得左TIM.

所以聖心(陳方安生)同ST. MARY(MS. FAN)等,都可以叫做名校. 其它的只可以說是好的學校.

所以如果孩子和家長都應付得來的話,ST. MARY應該好一些. 相反,像我這樣懶惰的媽咪, 我只想自己和自己的女兒做一個快樂的平民, 留給那些經過不斷努力和奮鬥的人當領導人, 他們做得好, 我們一樣有好日子過嘛 ^_^