原帖由 wh0709 於 11-11-15 15:50 發表
Seems both homework is a great burden, is single gender affects your choice? I like moral edu and nice campus, esp swimming pool of GH!
No free swimming lesson is offered to GH primary girls. A girl can never swim at GH swimming pool unless she attends the paid swimming class organised by outside swim org (e.g. Stanford). It is no difference to outsiders!
原帖由 jonahlee 於 11-11-15 15:57 發表
Good Hope. All round development
GH is not offering all round development!
Every girl is allowed to join one or none after-school ECA activity.
Most of GH girls have never joined any sport teams or music orchestras in GH.
Participation to speech competitions and music competitions are not encouraged. Most of the applications to speech fest are rejected and school refuses to sign on the app. form.
Education tour? Sorry, none.
Math competition? sorry, not encouraged. You have to apply to the organizers by yourself.
Drama? Ballet? IT? Swimming? forget them.
Anyway, English is excellent. General academic is good.
原帖由 cutebear123 於 11-11-16 22:12 發表
My daughter is now studying in GHS(KG) and selected to attend the 63rd Speech Festival. Even the training is organized in Sat and needed to pay for engaging external teacher, I think the school is en ...
You are correct.
The key word is "selected". Most of the girls are not selected.
But in many schools, e.g. SFA, all students no matter good or not, are allowed to participate in speech fest competitions without limit.
原帖由 cutebear123 於 11-11-16 22:44 發表
Is it normal practice for most of schools, right? My friend's son is studying in Pui Ching Primary School and the teachers only select a small portion of students to attend this kind of competitions.
Yes, some schools allow all students to attend speech fest if they wish while some do not. I don't have the statistics.
But as this is almost no cost to a school to put its chop on the form, it is puzzled why schools reject applications. Maybe the main reason that the school rejects applications is for the fame of school.
Although GH is not minded to offer all round development (maybe the school want the girls concentrating on the academic), it's no harm. Almost all parents arrange various ECAs for the girls outside.
It doesn't dampen the popularity and academic performance of GH Primary.
原帖由 WCYH 於 11-11-16 23:30 發表
In DGJS, only selected stds can attend the speech festival. Certainly, you can join through some centres outside by yourself. In SPCC, even you are selected, you need to have training outside by yourself. For SFA, my friend's son have no duty in the class even requested due to chance for gifted std mainly , so now change to YWS, very happy and bright, more chances for him to learn.
Change to YWS just because no duty in class? 唔係馬?
Studying at SFA and GHS can be happy and bright too.
By the way, the academic levels of SFA and GHS are certainly much higher than YWS.
原帖由 menmen 於 11-11-18 15:32 發表
Youma,
It's not the problem of cost to stamp a chop to the application form to let GHS girls to join the speech festival but the limitation of time for those Chinese subject class teachers to give practise and advice to their students.
If the school let all the girls to join so it will put great burden to the subject teachers. The teachers are impossible to give practise to all students within school time.
If you're not very familiar with the policy of GHS pls don't give too much comments to the school unless you've a girl study in GHS.
It is not necessary to train all enrolled girls. But it is necessary to give them a chance to participate.
What is the real reason of not allowing all girls to participate? You can ask the Principle Sister to understand the rationale.
BK is a platform to let parents freely comment and discuss, no matter what role we are. (By the way, I am of course not a simple guy.)