Think International School

yoyo0229

照我所知,每天都有一個鐘以普通話教中文.

miulinglong

My son is now studying in Grade one in Think Int'l School. There are only about 14 pupils in the class. I like the small class size very much. The Canadian curriculum is adopted in this school. Yes, they have one hour of Chinese which is taught in Putunghua every day. The textbooks they use for Chinese are the same as the ones used in local schools, so I hope the standard of their Chinese will not be much lower than students in local school. My son's English is quite good. He speaks a lot of English at home. I think everything is so far so good now.

Venuscheng

miulinglong 寫道:
My son is now studying in Grade one in Think Int'l School. There are only about 14 pupils in the class. I like the small class size very much. The Canadian curriculum is adopted in this school. Yes, they have one hour of Chinese which is taught in Putunghua every day. The textbooks they use for Chinese are the same as the ones used in local schools, so I hope the standard of their Chinese will not be much lower than students in local school. My son's English is quite good. He speaks a lot of English at home. I think everything is so far so good now.

聽你咁講, 小學都唔錯喎! 可以考返本地的中學嗎? 定係專為去外國讀書而設的呢?

miulinglong

Well, their first batch of Grade 6 students have not graduated yet, so we can't really say for certain whether they could get into a local secondary school or not.
As far as I know, local secondary schools are not allowed to give a written test to Primary six pupils when they consider their application. They will usually interview p.6 pupils in English and Chinese, so I think if the child's English is good, he definitely has an edge over other children in the interview.
In terms of curriculum, I don't think there is a problem because the most important thing is their language. If the child's language is good, they will be able to cope with whatever subjects in secondary schools.
One thing that worries me is that my son's English is much better than his Chinese, especially Putunghua. I think we need to give our children extra help in Chinese and maths if we want them to be able to go to a local secondary school.
There are many international schools which are better than Think, but I have chosen it because of two reasons:
1. He went to Think Kindergarten and he had made huge progress in those three years. I hope he will also do well in Think Int'l school.
2. Think is comparatively cheaper than other international schools. With such a small class size, I think it is value for money.

mtot

Hi miulinglong,

I am also considering Think Int'l school.  I, especially like the small class size, true.. it is value for money.  I have no doubt on the English language level, teaching approach, quality of teachers, etc.  Though chinese is not comparable to local school, but already better than many int'l school, given that daily chinese lesson is given.

I am concerning the extracurricular activities offered by the school.  Since the school is small with not many students, I would like to know more about the school activities.  As I know, some local schools / int'l school offer school activities after school, some like extracurricular activities - (dancing, singing, drama, sports, etc.), excursions, field trips, camping, etc.  

Besides, the school size is small with only one building.   Don't know whether it offers enough space for children's activities as they are always full of energy.  Anyway, it is only a hardware, not the most important element.   

May I have your comment.  Thanks a lot.

DMJ103

Hi miulinglong,

Would you mind telling which branch of Think did your son go to?

WYmom

mtot,

As I know, Think primary has different extra-cirricular activities on every Friday.  The principal said that they are planning to move Think Kln Tong kinder to another campus so as to release more space for primary at the existing campus.

justjust

尋日4間分校去旅行﹐真係好多人﹐居然撞到多年冇見既舊同學﹐原來大家既子女都係讀緊朗思。

呢次係第二次去北潭涌﹐感覺上覺得日營營地好似唔係好歡迎我地咁﹐開晒咪話朗思小朋友﹐玩完單車要還番﹐唔好亂放。當然係有家長/小朋友冇還單車周圍擺先會俾人話﹐但一開始就開晒咪﹐語氣不甚好﹐加埋最後既“唔好周圍擺”就好似好嫌棄。雖然我地冇玩單車﹐但聽落就覺得好似不受歡迎。 :-|

跟住又話係canteen食緊野既朗思家長小朋友請離開﹐因為要招呼其他營友午膳﹐嘩﹐駛唔駛又開咪﹐係個canteen講咪得囉。如果係有團體午膳時間包場既﹐咪預早d清場囉﹐洗乜臨時先開咪趕人﹖我地亦都冇幫襯過canteen﹐當時已準備離開﹐但一聽廣播﹐就覺得係非常唔歡迎我地。:tongue:

仲有那班童軍之類既一團人﹐唔知係咩訓練﹐要大哎口號﹐時不時大哎﹐差d以為睇緊戲﹐仲走埋班幼稚園小朋友面前﹐手舞足蹈咁哎口號﹐我真係好驚佢地會突然間衝過黎﹐嚇死我地。真係呢d影響其他營友既舉動又唔開咪講﹖   

yoyobb

小女讀LN班, 第一次參加學校旅行~ 我都一樣撞到兩位朋友既小朋友原來都讀朗思too   

感覺上........ 朗思小朋友和家長都好有禮貌, 感覺良好       

NichoB

Murrychan

"朗思小朋友和家長都好有禮貌"     

OnionMummy

My son was the student of kindergarden section (Lai Chi Kwok - Mei Foo). Honestly, the experience of studying in the international class was totally horrible. They change teachers almost every two months without any notice for parents. The the principal moved my kids to the Chinese class and have english lesson with 38 kids. My son told me that he sat at the back and could not see anything. The class teachers suddently 'disappeared' (That was the term told by the other teachers and my son told me after that..). And they have no Putonghua lessons even most of the parents asked for.
I won't consider Think kindergarden anymore for my second son cause the school consider 'money' more than everything.
A bad memory for me and my son!

WYmom

OnionMummy,

Which year and which class did your son join?  My kid has joined the Mei Foo branch for a few years studying in international and bilingual classes and did not see things happen as you said!  The class is usually 1x kids, there is never a class of 38 kids taught by one teacher.  If you want to complain, pls write to the school with actual facts!!!

DMJ103

38 is the class size of a primary or secondary school. Won't it be a bit "exaggerated"?

WYmom 寫道:
OnionMummy,

Which year and which class did your son join?  My kid has joined the Mei Foo branch for a few years studying in international and bilingual classes and did not see things happen as you said!  The class is usually 1x kids, there is never a class of 38 kids taught by one teacher.  If you want to complain, pls write to the school with actual facts!!!

mancon

大家好！我個女係 Think International School/ Kindergarten (Kowloon Tong) 讀ＬＮ班，我覺得老師教得好，我個女日日都話要返學，佢真係好鐘意返學，不過我考慮緊會唔會比佢繼續係朗思讀埋Ｋｉｎdergarten，不如大家俾Ｄ意件 。

DMJ103

I am in the same situation as you. My son is in LN now.

There is one thing I really want to ask for you guys' opinions, that is the Chinese standard of the Think graduates. I have confidence in their English standard, but I am a bit worried that one hour Chinese every day is not sufficient to help him build a soild foundation in Chinese; and thus would it be a bit difficult in catching up in local primary schools? Expericned parents, please sahre your views.

mancon 寫道:
大家好！我個女係 Think International School/ Kindergarten (Kowloon Tong) 讀ＬＮ班，我覺得老師教得好，我個女日日都話要返學，佢真係好鐘意返學，不過我考慮緊會唔會比佢繼續係朗思讀埋Ｋｉｎdergarten，不如大家俾Ｄ意件 。

bebe_c

my boy is studying in K3 (kln tong) now, yes, i can sure to you that there eng standard is pretty high, but, chinese....... to be honest, not very good....... like my boy, he can only recognise very little chinese word right now.......and he already admitted by a DSS school....... fyi, my little girl will studying the LN class from Feb 07, probably, will be in same class with ur kids.......

DMJ103 寫道:
I am in the same situation as you. My son is in LN now.

There is one thing I really want to ask for you guys' opinions, that is the Chinese standard of the Think graduates. I have confidence in their English standard, but I am a bit worried that one hour Chinese every day is not sufficient to help him build a soild foundation in Chinese; and thus would it be a bit difficult in catching up in local primary schools? Expericned parents, please sahre your views. [quote]
mancon 寫道:
大家好！我個女係 Think International School/ Kindergarten (Kowloon Tong) 讀ＬＮ班，我覺得老師教得好，我個女日日都話要返學，佢真係好鐘意返學，不過我考慮緊會唔會比佢繼續係朗思讀埋Ｋｉｎdergarten，不如大家俾Ｄ意件 。

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babybbma

請問有冇讀緊 UN 家長,想問英文堂是否同 bunnies & duck一齊上?syllabus 是否都是一樣的嗎? 英文字咭又派到那個topic? 可否告知. Thanks a lot   

IJJK

My son is also in K3 (Kowloon Tong), he can do his weekly diary by himself and read a lot. It's always a difficult balance - if more time on Chinese, they might not have so profound English standard. I knew a boy graduated last year, he can recognize hundreds of Chinese characters. I am sure his parents should have done a lot on it.

justjust

babybbma﹐

我只可以告知﹐雙語班既英文堂﹐唔會同國際班一齊上﹐雙語班有自己既英文老師﹐唔會同國際班一齊跟同一個英文老師。課程應該不完全一樣。至於英文字咭﹐最好問番老師。