收到St Catherine application form ?

bb@wonderland

Yes, agreed with cfaye.

Last year, they have about 4000 applications, they spent two whole days for interviews. If they not control the number of applications, I think the applications will be a lot more.

I prefer using this method, rather than going to school in person to get the application form, 咁可能會要通宵排隊.

bb@wonderland

Hi lawflorence,

Teachers seems do not like parents assist too much during the interviews.

Last year, during waiting, I saw one mother assisting her girls to answer, and the teacher said "I won't count her answer correctly in this way".

So better wait patiently and let your kid to answer the teacher, the teacher will use their way to help them.

If you really want AM class, then on the application form (when you received later), it will ask you to choose: AM/ PM/ Both. And there is also a question for you the choose : "If AM class is full, will you consider PM class". You can show your preference there.

Both AM and PM class has Eng/PTH classes.

But please note that all K2 are PM classes only.

bb@wonderland

All K2 classes are PM classes, and All K3 classes are AM classes. No more split.

Yes, if you choose interview in Cantonese and apply Eng/PTH, then you will be interviewed by 1 Cantonese teacher and 1 PTH teacher.

原帖由 lawflorence 於 09-9-23 12:29 發表
Hi bb@wonderland,

Thanks very much for your info!
So do u know if K3 will split back to am/pm classes? Also any idea if choose interview in Cantonese, still any interview by PTH.

bb@wonderland

As RoxaneMama, my boy also likes going to school. He even said he wants to go to school when he just back home from school.

The curriculum of St. Cat is difficult. My friend gave me the worksheets/ workbooks of K3, it is hard for a  kindergarten student. To me, its contents seem for a primary student indeed. So no need to worry about the connection to primary.

原帖由 RoxaneMama 於 09-9-23 14:02 發表
hI Lawflorence,
Teachers seems do not like parents assist too much during the interviews. ==> 絕對正確!
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bb@wonderland

Share the same viewpoint. I know some kids also did not take the offer at the end.

I guess St. Cat know the rough percentage of withdrawal based on their past experiences. So they accepted more students, taken the dropout rate into account.

原帖由 happysin 於 09-9-24 11:56 發表
that's not the truth as i have given up SC's offer in late March and so did my friend....maybe they accepted more than 600 kids just in case a few of them withdraw from the offer.  

bb@wonderland

原帖由 lawflorence 於 09-9-25 10:07 發表
Hi RoxaneMama,

So does PTH being teach on CHI/ENG class and so does CHI in ENG/PTH class?
Can u tell me how many CHI/ENG classes this year and how many student in each class?

Hi lawflorence,

There are 3 PTH lessons for Eng/Cantonese class per week.

Actually we do not know extactly how many classes in K1. Just an estimation, there are about 600 K1 students in total, for 2 campus, AM and PM classes.

The class sizes are also different, St. Cat will group the students by big kids and small kids. Big kid classes - about 30 students, while small kids - about 20 students per class.

My boy is small kid, his class has about 20 students.

bb@wonderland

原帖由 RoxaneMama 於 09-9-25 13:37 發表
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Hi RoxaneMama,
My boy is in N6, informed by school that one of his classmates has H1N1. Hope no more new cases of H1N1 la. Sooooo worry.