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HoiYauBB,
You should be able to see many comments from other discussion on the same topic in BK. My very general comments on the 2 schools are:
As SC has a long history, the curriculum is very well established. At the same time, teachers will develop/improve the existing curriculum in light of latest requirement of primary school eg. when my daughter in K3 in 07/08, they developed the material to facilitate the learning of Chinese部首. The curriculum is so comprehensive (but not excessive) that it allows my girl to integrate into P1 curriculum easily but in a lively and happy way. I would say SC balance the learning requirement and the need to be lively and creative. It starts easy in K1 so that the children can easily blend into the school life and teachs more and more when the students move up to K3. Writing only starts from K2. In addition, since it's a big school with history, the administration is so smooth and they can have economic of scale in providing materials developed by themselves at a low cost. Weakness: I feel the development of my girl's English slowed down in K2 & K3 - possibly because there is no longer full time English teacher for a class. However, its English is already better than many other kindergarten, so very much depends on your expectation; they don't arrange ECA (except one - Faust); it's so big that your child is just "one of the students" in school. 2 teachers in a class of around 30 in K1 and the ratio is getting lower in K2 & K3 (one Chinese teacher + 1 non-full time assistant + 1 non-full time Eng teacher).
For HK Preschool, I must say my knowledge on curriculum limited to playgroup (when my daughter attended) and K1. The level in K1 is very similar to SC so far, but the teacher told me writing will be started in 2nd semister of K1. Hearsay info said the level of K2 and K3 is as high as SC. HKPS and SC both have reading scheme to cultivate children's interest in reading. HKPS is better but demanding on parents. SC will just let the children to take books to home but without follow up. However, HKPS will read with the children in school first and then the parents should read with the children at home. At the end the week, the teacher will give detail comment on whether the children can read those books returned. HKPS is so small that every students just like a family member and the headmistress is so devoted that she held courses frequently for teaching the parents phonics and how to follow up the children at home. She can ask any teachers to do it but she did it a lot of time herself. Better language in hKPS because full time Eng/Put teacher throughout 3 years - 1 Put full time teacher + 1 Eng full time teacher + 1 Put full time assistant(teacher?). Also, I feel that teachers in HKPS are more acceptable to comparatively "active' students. Arrange a lot of ECA and you don't need to hazzle with finding ECA for your children. Weakness: administration is not as good as SC and the teaching materials is relied on publication by publisher, not tailor made and it's expensive. Seems admission to P1 for girls is not as good as boys.
I originally planned to let my boy to go back to SC to study K2 (he studied K1 in SC last year and K1 in HKPS now) because SC is so good in light of my experience of my daughter. However, I decided to let my boy to stay in HKPS for K2 and K3 because he enjoyed HKPS far better than he was in SC. Probably because he is a more active student that HKPS's "active approach" suit him better. So, if your kid is a boy with a more "active" and curious character, I would recommend you HKPS . If she is a girl with more "obeyance" character, SC may be a better choice.
Hope the above help. |
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發表於 09-1-13 01:00
