赤柱聖士提反書院附屬小學

Junior-Fan

Thank you for telling me.  Do u see the new topic in this forum: St Stephen's vs St Paul's Boys?  It's too easy for me to choose,  haha...Hope the luck will fall on my son soon.

Wing(婷婷媽咪) 寫道:
junior-fan,
放心, 最少我已經知道有個朋友放棄左啦, 佢個囡真光收左佢, 佢話好多朋友都話st.stephen唔好, 所以放棄, 所以放心, 等多陣就有消息架啦.     

sam23

Junior-Fan ,why do you like this school? Can you please give me some more information?

Wing(婷婷媽咪)

charlesma,
等我都插句嘴先 我公司個高層個仔而家係st.stephen讀中3, 佢話我知中學係屬於band 1尾 band 2頭, 咁點解會係咁既呢, 佢話因為讀st.stephen既小朋友基本上家境都唔太差, 變左佢地一上中學好多都已經走左去外國讀書, 咁咪變左好質數既小學生都走晒, 咪成績

abc媽咪

There's right in the past years.  SSCPS has students from band 1 to 3.  SSC admitted most Primary students.  Only band 3 students (2-3/year) would not be admitted.  Some of the band 1 (less than 10)left for better secondary school.  Those who remained in SSC were mainly band 2.
Many said SSC was nearly kicked out from using English as a teaching media because of the standard of SSCPS.  After SSC confirmed to be a English school, SSCPS changed to English school in order to feed better students to SSC.  It's a good chance!
The banding is for the students, not the school.  If it admits many band 1 students, then many will say it is a band 1 school.
In my son's year, all of the students had very good characters and 純.  For discipline, I could quote a scene that impressed me: there was 佈道會 and choirs came from many schools.  Choir members from other schools sat properly without many movement during waiting.  But those of SSCPS, including my son, were moving and touching each other.  Teacher would not interrupt them provided they were not offensive or disturbing others. I saw no problem as they were only kids.  
There was no rule as 'no running during recess' as some government school did.  I never heard of any student became bad guy or commited serious misconduct.

charlesma 寫道:
abc媽咪
Thanks very much for your info.
Are you suggesting that those from the primary may not be band 1 but the situation is improving due to higher admission requirement?
Also, does this school cares about "discipline"?
Thanks

charlesma

Thanks abc媽咪 and Wing.

It seems that I don't have to worry about its academic performance and discipline!!

"Discipline" to me is the ability to control behaviour. That is one is able to keep quiet if one feels that it is required. Or one would walk instead of run if it is needed.  Do you have any experience that demonstrate the school's effort in training the kid's in this area. That would be very useful information to me.  I also don't opt for school that only ask kids to remain quiet and still. Kids are all energetic!

fwmom

Some of my friends told me ssc is good but not top in academic, for sscps is much better. I'm not very familiar with the sscps, as my little girl's just been accepted by this school, could parents of sscps tell us more abt the school e.g. teachers are nice or not, how abt the meals provided by school's canteen, homeworks qty and levels of difficulties? general styles of the students (out-going, "book eater"   ) I'm still puzzling cuz the school is really far away from our home, may take 1 hr at least? However, I'm very sure that its campus is one of the best in hk local schools!   

one more question is which school(s) will you rank with the same level of sscps in academic?

ssspwong

Hi, fwmom,

Up to now, the load of homework is reasonable to us. My son can have plenty of time to participate into various kinds of extra curricular activities.

The standard of English is quite high. My son can handle the English assignments of his cousin, who is 4 years older and is studying in a reputable traditional school on HK Island. Hence, I am satisfied with his English.

I am also amazed by his standard of PTH. I myself do not know PTH. But I enjoy listening to his PTH: the way his speaks, the tone and the accent he uses are alike people from Mainland China! I think it is owed to his teachers' good demonstration.

About Math, SSCPS adopts Longman English Edition. Not too difficult. But, some parents may prefer higher standard. To me, I think it is OK. I don't want my son being drilled with KUMAN styled Math.  

My son enjoys himself very much in the campus. He can play a lot in the playgrounds. He also told me all students need to behave properly in the canteen during lunch because student leaders from upper grades will be responsible to supervise them.

I like their 'house system (社)' because it encourages inter-grade relationship and cultivates leadership and responsibility. Not many primary schools have this system.

However, fwmom, I think 'distance' is a great concern. My son needs to travel about 1.5 hours daily. But more than 2 hours travel daily is rather tiring for kids. Isn't it?

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123mom

HI Wing, ssspwong,

I received the acceptance letter yesterday.

ssspwong

Hi, 123mom
Wow! Congratulations!
Hope to meet you in future school functions!
    

123mom

ssspwong,

Thanks.     

Junior-Fan

Congratulations ah!
Though my mailbox is still empty, I am really happy to hear any mom receiving good news here.

fwmom

ssspwong, thank you so much for your sharing! Yes, to me, I've to consider the "distance". My husband suggested if we could move to Happy Valley, Causeway Bay, Taikoo Shing and South Horizon wherever is closer to school. Do you have any idea abt its school bus route?

Also, is the drop out rate fr. Grade 1 to 6 very serious? cuz I've seen some information listed in the "sky book" of primary one enrollment. Correct me if I'm wrong. Thank you so much!   :

ssspwong

Hi, fwmom

From my experience, the school bus service (route B) is pretty good. The drivers and bus mothers are nice and responsible. One thing I like most is SSCPS can arrange one more round of departure for students if they join after school activities (For route B, it is 4:45pm). The additional cost is $1000 per term, no matter how many days a week you opt to take normal round or 2nd round.

(In other schools, due to inconvenience of picking up students after school activities, many parents opt to not allowing their kids to joint ECAs.)

The school bus is 24(?) seats, not the big one. For route B, there seems to be totally 4 buses but I am not very sure. For more information about bus services and fees, you can refer to the school websites (under the icon of school profile.)

I was told that there may be some students dropping out every year but I don't know the average number. (You can assume 0-2 in each class). It is a normal phenomenon even in many other reputable schools.

There are various reasons: Some are for emigration, some are for changing schools (You know the tuition fee is not inexpensive and the location is also not centrally based!).

There has been an interesting discussion in another thread about SSCPS 1-2 months ago. Unfortunately, I could not find it and hyperlink it. In it, a BK parent said his/her friend had a daughter studied in SSCPS years ago. Because the meals there were not good so her daughter was very thin. Her daughter also complained about the class discipline. The class was very noisy that nearly 2/3 of time was wasted for teachers calming down and controlling the class. Only 1/3 of time was used on teaching and learning. Finally, she dropped out from SSCPS and swapped to ‘St Paul Co-ed’ after (or before?) grade Four.

Hmmm…very interesting.  We all know that St Paul Co-ed is one of the top schools in HK. If an applicant looked very thin and had wasted 2/3 of her learning time in past 3-4 years, how could she succeed in getting a place there??? Or, with what criteria that St Paul Co-ed admitted her students? Or, did it mean that 1/3 of learning time in SSCPS was already so effective that the girl already had learnt a lot??? It was a puzzle that I still could not solve. Anyone can help???



    

mattsmum

i remember reading that comment about food. i don't believe that.

they should have their kitchen and chef just as secondary. if secondary was not bad, how could that happen to primary?

abc媽咪

They have different kitchen and chef in primary and secondary school.  In fact, their kitchens are not that close.

I also don't believe their -ve comment about food.  At least my son never complained of it.  The school website shows weekly menu.  The food is freshly prepared, unlike many school that ordered from supplier, and the supplier may make them at factory.

I guess the food may not be as good as home food, but is not bad.  Kids always like fastfood, hotdog and hamburger.  Everyone, including us, especially when we were young, complaint about canteen food.

mattsmum 寫道:
i remember reading that comment about food. i don't believe that.

they should have their kitchen and chef just as secondary. if secondary was not bad, how could that happen to primary?

Aardvark

Junior-Fan,

My mailbox was also empty and u know what, I didn't write any letter to the school as my son was accepted by another school, through the Government allocation scheme.  

So, good luck with your family and ur precious son.   :

Junior-Fan

Aardvark,

IC!  Congratulations!  Wow, you could save much wor!!!   

I think my son's mark is too low for them to consider at this moment!!   Anyway, I will keep up until.............mmmm.....(I don't know!) :cry:

Eternity

ssspwong,

the link you mentioned is recap. as below:

http://www.baby-kingdom.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&order=1&topic_id=783215&forum=7&post_id=&refresh=%ABe%A9%B9

:wink:  :wink:

fwmom

thanks ssspwong! For the food, I believe sscps's canteen serves kids with healthier food rather than those made by lunch-box factories. For school bus, may I know if it is possible to have less than 45 mins ride from causeway bay to school? Last time when I reg for my girl, I saw the students (grade 6 I guess) on G/F, having their lessons. In just abt 2 minutes observation, discipline was ok not so noisy, just heard the teachers' voice. Also, the students look like "normal" (I can't tell if they are rich or not, just very normal hk students, u know some people say there are many super rich students, with island, jet.......etc) We are from those normal families and just wanna give the kids a happy and rewarding school life.

Aardvark

Junior-Fan,

Yeah, guess I'm lucky, slot of, as I'm an old-boy with that school.

One thing that might help.  It seems that 聖士提 prefers the mother to be a full time house wife.  That's what the cases for some of "my friends" who got the admission.  Of course I don't know if it would help if the father is a full time house husband.

Good luck!