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Eliza,

I have also bought the book, very well written and organized.

Thank you for the tips.

Hogwarts

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回復 Jackieson 的帖子

Dear Jackieson,

Yes, F Class is the best class for science stream for many years, you can see that again from last year's S4 class selection, and from Principal's older address back in 2007.

http://www.spc.edu.hk/upload_files/na/379_Assembly121107_1.pdf   

It is a result of students' selection, not by the school.  Last year, if students in S3 wished to take phy, chem & bio as three electives in S4, they could only go to Class F or Class C.  While in Class F, M1 was a must, Class C students had choice of M1/M2.  


My Older Post, which you might find it interesting, is about last year's S3 students' class selection results.

"You may find the following unofficial and unconfirmed info useful, as reference la, for the coming year subject selection.  This year the top 10 boys went to Class F, the lowest ranking boy in Class C was 50 plus and the lowest ranking boy in Class F was 70 plus."



Unfortunate for the school 2013-2014 DSE results, some of the awards winners might have already gone overseas.  

hogwarts

Dear Teresa,

Should you ask yr son's English teacher for details?   Set 6 might not be the weakest link, be cool.

Regarding writing, I have no idea about how much is enough, it seems that there is composition every week.



Two exams per year is fine for my family, there are many tests in between.  When the boys are in their teens, they should do their studying themselves and pushing too hard from parents might not necessary produce good results.

In our family, we make suggestions and keeping the fingers crossed that the boy can take care of most of his own activities.   So far, with blessing, it works.

My boy also involves in a lot of ECA and I hope that he could learn many important things from those busy ECA schedules at the end of the day.

hogwarts

回復 Jackieson 的帖子

Dear Jackieson,
Just find out two of the 11 boys from Class 5 are very active scouts.  They should be fine representatives of the school's mission to educate her boys becoming all-rounded young men, hoping there are more of them.  And my boy will look them up as role models.

By the way, the 10th Group Scouts achieved several important scouts awards (Carlton Trophy, Distinguished Group Award, Scout of the Year, Chief Scout’s Award and Distinguished Service Cross) in 2012.  The awards presentation is in the coming Scouts Rally on Nov 4.  

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回復 Jackieson 的帖子

Dear Jackieson,

Last year's winter uniform notice and guideline for yr reference:

http://www.spc.edu.hk/news_detail.php?type=notice&na_id=1600&year=2011&mid=2-25

During that period, students could wear uniform of their choice.

hogwarts

Destinations of SPC 2012 graduates


http://www.spc.edu.hk/content.php?id=82&mid=8-126  



Reading the charts, I am content with my encouragement to my boy in keeping himself in the top 30% basket.   It seems the top 50% of DSE 2012 did well when some of the good students had continued their further education overseas.


Lately, a parent shared with me that the academic standard of the last two years S1 intakes were much better than our sons' year, no matter they were from the SPCPS or other schools.  By working hard and keeping the fingers crossed, the SPC boys should improve their DSE results in every coming year.


Lets work hard together (if only the boys agreed)!!!!!

hogwarts

Video of St. Paul's College Alumni Choir Practice - 庫斯克郵車


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E ... channel&list=UL

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回復 justinwumom 的帖子

School Jacket only for winter uniform unless below 10 degree C.  The rule is a little bit rigid, the school jacket is a must for all times even the weather is warm.

And according to the rule:

棉襖/羽絨

只可於早上温度低於攝氏十度的日子穿著。 只可以是深藍色、寶藍或黑色。

hogwarts

06年,師兄Danny Lau的一篇文章 about Scout 10th Group, quite touching.  It is full of the usual spirit of SPC, and can explain why schools with history in some ways have special edges over newly established schools.



http://blog.yahoo.com/sleeplessinlohas/articles/192883  

hogwarts

Dear Jackieson & abigbird,

You can have a session of your own with the class teachers, two of them, after the mid-year exam with the results in yr hand.  

Usually, parents of every boy would have about 10 minutes but some of them spent more than that with the teachers.   My longest waiting was about half of an hour.   

Dear mingmingyinyin,

No idea, but my guess is that it should refer to the graduates of 2012 only.  Some missing good entries, one boy goes to U of Liverpool to read Law but U of Liverpool is not on the list.   One AL student goes to Fudan to read Law as well but they also do not put Fudan on the list.

Every school does have good and smart students but the SPC's way is not "conventional" method with a lot of pressure and work, the students must learn to work hard themselves.   Some parents might not like this kind of approach, as all-rounded might mean students might develop talents and abilities other than academic strengthens.  

hogwarts

回復 Teresa 的帖子

Support!!!!

There are so many tours for them.  I would like my boy to join one service tour if situations allow.

hogwarts

會在見班主任前的星期三前後先派成績表，好讓家長準備問題!

hogwarts

Just found one touching thing, the boys went back to primary school last week before the primary school moving out to the new site.  They found out with astonishment that their English Teacher, Mr. Watson, kept one piece of homework of almost every kid, who had been under his wings.  

They were all in joy and took picture of those age old homework.   Awesome!   

hogwarts

Good news for that boy, he is catching up and it seems repeating is a good system.  It is better than that only the very best can stay & no room for students need support and help.

hogwarts

早兩天細閱最新的校刊 " 弘道＂，發現有兩個不同年级的全级第一名，都已離校出國去了。

hogwarts

回復 Teresa 的帖子

今年特別多野睇，在週末數下走了多少人都算一個節目！

hogwarts

St. Paul's Singer's Christmas Performance 2012:

Have you Heard (A Christmas Spiritual) by Jay Althouse
The First Noel / Pachelbel's Canon (A Traditional English Carol and Canon in D) by Johann Pachelbel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkmxaleV3o4&feature=youtu.be  

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回復 yuekinwai 的帖子

Regarding teachers' performance, same with any other teachers group, there are the best 5% and the worst 5%.  The school has some kind of audit program and the Principal would sit in classes as part of the program.

SPC also welcomes Parents to give suggestions and accept compliant.  I had an experience of this sort some years ago. We went to share our feelings, with the Principal, about the teaching method of one particular teacher.   I don't know much about other parents' feedback on that meeting and the outcomes   Personally, I appreciate the school's attitude of openness.

At the end of the day, even very good teacher still needs the cooperation of his/her students to produce "magic".

My boy came from the SPCPS, so I did not have anything to share about the interview.  

hogwarts

夏季下午不用上課，但中午放學時間會晚些，校網站有資料。
現在S4 有些班有英文 enhancements course, 但好像是排演莎劇。

校隊有數隊，喜歡數學的可以自由參加，星期六主要是課外活動，有外語興趣班，詩歌班，童軍等等。

S1不用大緊張，祇要中、英丶數跟得上就OK，當然有勁人S3就計大一丶二的數，但SPC提供很多成長配套的活動，也一樣重要，比如每天早上點名的是 prefect 而不是老師。  在可能範圍內，多參加服務和課外活動是 SPC 的教育重要組成部份。

hogwarts

我个仔由小學部升上來，所以不知道 banding，但不論是其他小学或由自己小学部上來，学力相差都不大。而且小朋友上中學後讀書的發展可以非常不同，他們自己的努力更重要！

英文這個東西，不是母語讀書人，從來都沒能叫做"好", 祇有繼續努力和孩子一起進步, 叫佢睇英文書，咁自己都要睇返本喇，对否？