French stream English primary + colleges

flostangraphy

Dear all parent,
I'm a father of 2 boys (4 and 2 yrs old).
elder boy Camill is in K2 now. and my wife and I wondering which primary school is good for him for the P1 school application.
we have visited Camoes on 1st May with our son and all of us were very impressed and found that the local and pupils are good and nice!
their French stream interested us particularly as our son speaks French with us and Cantonese with his grand parents.
I would like to ask if anyone knows any other primary school in Hong Kong has French stream as well (other than private international school and lycee francais)

希望各位多多指教!!!!
Thanks a lot in advance!

[ 本帖最後由 flostangraphy 於 09-10-6 18:38 編輯 ]

Smalljokerbb

hi flostangraphy,
Except international schools, you can choose Po Leung Kuk Camoes Tan Siu Lin Primary school which privides French steam.

原帖由 flostangraphy 於 08-11-7 12:52 發表
Dear all parent,
I'm a father of 2 boys (4 and 2 yrs old).
elder boy Camill is in K2 now. and my wife and I wondering which primary school is good for him for the P1 school application.  And the chinese lesson is conducted in Putonghua. Many classmates can speak cantonese. So, you kids can learn/communicate with 3 languages.
we have vis ...

[ 本帖最後由 Smalljokerbb 於 08-11-7 13:19 編輯 ]

conniengor

SMC also provide French lesson!

mom2twins

There's St Johannes College in Kowloon Tong that offers French as a 2nd language; Tsung Tsin int'l stream which offers French and Japanese; and St Margaret's Co-ed which has strong emphasis on their English and French curriculum.  

flostangraphy

dear smalljokerbb,
thanks a lot!
camoes is absolutely our 1st choice for our son, however, i do learn that this is 1st choice for somehow 2533 p1 application parents as well......

原帖由 Smalljokerbb 於 7/11/2008 13:17 發表
hi flostangraphy,
Except international schools, you can choose Po Leung Kuk Camoes Tan Siu Lin Primary school which privides French steam.

flostangraphy

hello conniengor,
do you mean st. margaret's co-ed?!
we have think about this school as well, there are a lot of good and negative comment about this school. we would like to find more details on it.
do you know any parent of this school?!

原帖由 conniengor 於 7/11/2008 13:23 發表
SMC also provide French lesson!

Smalljokerbb

yes! There are almost 2500 applicants every year. But if you apply French steam, the applicants are less, only around 600. The school will give 30% of total seats for other nation children. Thus, yr chance is quite high.

原帖由 flostangraphy 於 08-11-7 13:36 發表
dear smalljokerbb,
thanks a lot!
camoes is absolutely our 1st choice for our son, however, i do learn that this is 1st choice for somehow 2533 p1 application parents as well...... mouth:" />

flostangraphy

hello mom2twins,
nice to meet you and thanks a lot for your advise!!
st johannes college is an interesting school!
however, we are not able to afford our children to go to private school in hong kong in any close future...
tsung tsin seems more realistic for us, is it the one in shaukiwan?! but they didn't mention that they have international stream ....

原帖由 mom2twins 於 7/11/2008 13:30 發表
There's St Johannes College in Kowloon Tong that offers French as a 2nd language; Tsung Tsin int'l stream which offers French and Japanese; and St Margaret's Co-ed which has strong emphasis on their E ...

silvia_ng

原帖由 flostangraphy 於 08-11-7 13:52 發表
hello mom2twins,
nice to meet you and thanks a lot for your advise!!
st johannes college is an interesting school!
however, we are not able to afford our children to go to private school in hong ko ...

the Tsin Tsing is the one in Sham Shui Po, they got main stream and international stream. For the school fee, main stream = $3600 per month, international stream = $5200 per month.

You may try Camoes($1500) and St. Margret ($2900), both of them were good!
My son will attend the 2nd interview of Camoes tomorrow, the school fee is reasonable and I feel the school is well organize.

But we didn't apply for the St. Margret that I got 2 kids....too expensive...
school fee, school bus, lunch, others....

Smalljokerbb

the school fee of tsung tsin's international class is also quite high... $5xxx ! And it is in shekkitmei !

原帖由 flostangraphy 於 08-11-7 13:52 發表
hello mom2twins,
nice to meet you and thanks a lot for your advise!!
st johannes college is an interesting school!
however, we are not able to afford our children to go to private school in hong ko ...

flostangraphy

dear 蕭亞姨!
nice blog!!
wish your son get a lot of courage to go through it!!
thanks for the advice and clarify about the tsung tsin school....

原帖由 silvia_ng 於 7/11/2008 14:03 發表


the Tsin Tsing is the one in Sham Shui Po, they got main stream and international stream. For the school fee, main stream = $3600 per month, international stream = $5200 per month.

You may try Camo ...

conniengor

Yes, you are right! SMC=St Margaret's co-ed!
My boy is only in the waiting list, so disappointed, you can find the thread in BK at around mid oct, 08 topic of " SMC or 聖瑪加利, there are so many good comments in there!
It is not easy to get in but I think more chance for yr boy beacause of the nationality! This year they only accept 80 children!

flostangraphy

thanks again, i will go check the st margaret thread to have a better idea.
by the way, they only have 2 classes of P1?!
which means 41 pupils per class.... is it not too many pupil for the teacher?!?

原帖由 conniengor 於 7/11/2008 14:46 發表
Yes, you are right! SMC=St Margaret's co-ed!
My boy is only in the waiting list, so disappointed, you can find the thread in BK at around mid oct, 08 topic of " SMC or 聖瑪加利, there are so many good ...

sara

There should be about 80 students in P.1. Students are divided into 3 groups so that only about 28 students are in one group. In Hong Kong, this teacher to students ratio is comparatively lower than other schools.
My daughter studies P.1 in this school. In her class, there are about 10 non-Chinese. So, English is used as medium of Instruction.

原帖由 flostangraphy 於 08-11-7 15:17 發表
thanks again, i will go check the st margaret thread to have a better idea.
by the way, they only have 2 classes of P1?!
which means 41 pupils per class.... is it not too many pupil for the teacher? ...

flostangraphy

thank you sara for your clarification!

mgwong

Hi Sara,
can u share something about SMC?
My son will study P.1 next year.

thank you.

sara

My daughter and I really like the school. It is a real EMI school and students dare to speak English during the class.
Compared to traditional school, the workload of homework is not very heavy so that my daughter can handle them by herself. Students can learn actively and study happily in the school.
But it really depends on what kind of schools do you like......

flostangraphy

dear sara,
so your daughter has take chinese as 2nd language?!
is it mandarin speaking in chinese?!
and does she need to take a 3rd one between french, spanish and japanese?!

momosimo

Hi Sara,

Can you please tell me what do you mean by "EMI"?  

Thanks,

AaronMa

EMI = English as Medium of Instruction

原帖由 momosimo 於 08-11-7 20:30 發表
Hi Sara,

Can you please tell me what do you mean by "EMI"?  

Thanks,