2012 讀 year 8

tongyimtong

http://www.warwickschool.org/page_viewer.asp?page=Boarding&pid=106

It provides only 50 boarding places from year 9

venice121

Thank you so much for all valuable opinions.

I think I can get the best school to my son according to your information.

Now, I put St Peter, Warwick &  Ipswich to my first priorty.  If my son fail to the first round, I will choose the schools which around top 200.

Thank you once again.

CPU1995

Personally I don’t favour choosing school with a small size of boarding house but has strong connection with local agencies.

You can imagine every year the school would admit at least 15 students thro local agencies. Just three years' intake thro HK agencies would amount to nearly 100% occupation of Hong Kong students in the boarding house.

Unfortunately, Warwick and Ipswick each has 50 boarding places in the boarding house. I’m not sure  whether these two schools have 100% Chinese students in the boarding house. If such is the case, you kid may speak Cantonese all the time in the boarding house.

For St. Peter, one of my friends has some reservation on this school. You may seek other’ s advice on this school.

Above all, the competitive school fees and ranking are not the only determining factors in choosing your targeted school. The agencies which earn from commission may not reveal some unfavourable information to you.

Some schools such as Oundle with large size of boarding house which has only about 5% Asian students ratio in the boarding house may offer a very good English speaking environment than those schools with small size of boarding house.

[ 本帖最後由 CPU1995 於 11-10-2 11:02 編輯 ]

venice121

The agent advice me to choose the school which is not in the top of the ranking to make the student study happyily in the first beginning. I can choose the top school in Year 10. Is it make sense? I found it is so difficult to the parent to choose the right school for their child because there are so many choice. I am pleased to get more opinion from different parent. Please share your experience or whatever in this thread.  Thanks a lot.

CPU1995

The first year in UK is the adaption year and you don’t expect your son with a calibre to get a result with flying colour so as to change to other school with a higher ranking by the end of 1st year.

My foolish opinion is that:
(i)      Avoid choosing school speaking with Welsh accent;
(ii)     Avoid choosing school with over 10% Chinese;
(iii)    Avoid choosing school with 100% Chinese in boarding house;
(iv)    Avoid choosing school with ranking out of top 200;
(v)      Avoid limiting your budget in choosing a good school.

[ 本帖最後由 CPU1995 於 11-10-3 21:40 編輯 ]

venice121

非常感謝CPU1995的回應.


我已詢問過agent， WARWICK 確實幾乎100%中國人寄宿生，好肯定這會減少講英文的機會但究竟這是否直接影响學生成績呢?

我會跟據你提供的意見，小心挑選學校。不過要合乎經濟原則又要排名在大概100範圍的選擇實在不多。AGENT通知我NEW HALL會考慮我的申請；IPSWICH 和 ST PETER 則未有回覆，如果後兩間不接受我的申請，這可能小兒成綪未逹要求，我會考慮200內的學校。

orancarmen

Hi venice,

check pm, pls.

peter_pan

I'm afraid I don't agree with your agent.
Most top schools recruit students at Year 7 & Year 9 so it is much more difficult to get into a top school at Year 10.
Since your son is going over at Year 8, my suggestion would be to get into a reasonably good school & stay there until after GCSE.
If he performs well at GCSE, then it may be possible to switch to a top school for A-levels.

venice121

My agent told me that let the child to have happy study for one year.  After, the child may go to the top school in year 9.

The school report was sent to the St Peter, Ipswich and New Hall.  At this moment, only New Hall will consider my application. Even I want my son to get to the top school but it doesn't mean he will be considered.

CPU1995

For affordable school fee with good word of mouth school reputation, you may consider Monmouth School.

According to my friend, the school fee is just about gbp 22,000 per annum. The school has excellent discipline, large boarding room (1,000 sq feet for two boys), low Asian students ratio and responsible teachers.

According to my son, the entrance exam of Monmouth is difficult compared with other schools such as Oundle, Shrewsbury, Loughborough Grammar School. You may browse the sample entrance papers:

http://www.monmouthschool.org/en/m_sample%20papers


I can’t find the ranking of Monmouth School this year and last year’s ranking is about 190. The school is located in beautiful countryside in Wales.

Another school with inexpensive school fee (gbp 18,842 per annum) and good ranking (85th) is Loughborough Grammar School. You may consider applying it thro agency as well.

原帖由 venice121 於 11-10-3 22:40 發表
我已詢問過agent， WARWICK 確實幾乎100%中國人寄宿生，好肯定這會減少講英文的機會但究竟這是否直接影响學生成績呢?

我會跟據你提供的意見，小心挑選學校。不過要合乎經濟原則又要排名在大概1 ...

venice121

Thank you for your advice.

I'll check it out with agent.

venice121

Besides Kingswood & St Peter to invite my son to sit for exam, I haven't got the reply from other schools yet due to the half term break. It's make me anxious.

venice121

Hi everybody,

Prior Park has offered the place to my son, I'm waiting for Kingswood reply now. I believe my son also get the offer by Kingswood. At this moment, should I try another school which is high ranking than these two schools?

The Leys is not consider my son in Y8 for next year.

orancarmen

hi venice,
pls check pm