CKY、HKUGA、GT、St. Margaret's Co、Evangel College如何選擇？

sonicgina

兒子今年K1，性格比較內向，容易喊(感到有壓力及惡些少與他對話時)，所以想了解一下活動教學的各校優缺點，以及要如何計劃一下考小學前的準備，請大家給一些意見參考。

1) 我心目中感覺最好口碑最好是CKY

2) 見HKUGA個網頁介紹小學課程部分，提到教授語言方面是用粵語，只是中文科用國語及英文科用英語，以及中文科老師會在課餘是用普通話，英文科老師會在課餘是用英語與學生溝通，這樣好嗎？

3) GT有聽到口碑ok，但是教授語言方面是也是用粵語，擔心幼稚園時的英普學習好像浪費了點。

4) SMC是標榜用英文教授，但口碑好像一般而且中學部聽聞差少少。

5) Evangel也是標榜用英文教授，但口碑好像亦一般。

如果與傳統學校比較，St Paul Boy及St Louis是否也可以考慮？(因為家住中區)

caramom

原帖由 sonicgina 於 12-08-28 發表
兒子今年K1，性格比較內向，容易喊(感到有壓力及惡些少與他對話時)，所以想了解一下活動教學的各校優缺點， ...

In your school list, I would say SMC is an EMI traditional school instead of activity based on, they do focus much on academics. HKUGA is a school that is relatively relaxed on studying and the average amount of HW is less than ordinary schools.

CKY is a bit special, they are English and Mandarin bilingual school, the teaching method and school life is much similar as international schools, ie activity based and emphasizes on happy learning. There will not be much homework to do and children usually finish in class. Their secondary school runs IGCSE & IB Diploma, same as ESF secondary school. CKY students are not taking HKDSE, all the school you have listed are local schools and students will take HKDSE eventually.

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oh! Thanks for your sharing.  How about ISF, CKY, Victoria, Logos Academy? ISF, Victoria, Logos have IB.

caramom

sonicgina 發表於 13-5-7 14:27
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oh! Thanks for your sharing.  How about ISF, CKY, Victoria, Logos Academy? ISF, ...

1. ISF-There are quite a number of children from Rightmind got admitted by ISF in the previous years, about 12-15 per year. ISF is using their unique curriculum in primary years and proceed to IB MYP and DP in secondary. One of the strengths of the school is the language policy, they put much focus on Chinese (Mandarin) in early years, up to 70% starting from G1, then the proportion decrease year by year until about 10-20% Chinese in G12. As ISF is being more popular, this year, they have received 1,000 applications for Preparatory Year (300 sibling applications received) for 150 spots, you can foresee the competition will be keen too in the next few years (More information available: http://hongkong.geoschools.com/forum/13/thread4710.html). If you aim at ISF, you may consider joining their Preparatory class (equivalent to K3), so that a spot in G1 is guaranteed for your son, otherwise it's difficult to get a G1 place. ISF have run IB DP 2-3 years ago, compare with other IS, it's a bit new to it, but I knew some G12 in ISF got conditional offers from prestigious US colleges, there was a thread at the international school forum here, you may take a look of it too.

2. Victoria Shanghai Academy
It is a well established school with full IB Program offered, I believe VSA is bilingual, in fact for those VSA Y1 students who attend Victoria kindergarten, they should have a strong foundation on Chinese, and quite a number of them speak fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin. They have been experienced in using IB, and last year there were 2 students from VSA got 45/45 in IB DP. For Y1, 138 places are offered to Victoria kindergarten students, only 30 offered to other applicants.

3. Logos Academy
It seemed the school is also new to IB, and it's a DSS school but not private independent school like ISF and VSA. That means Logos is also under EDB, it restrict the proportion of students taking IB, for example at most only half of the S6 students could take IB, or some DSS IB school will pick those intelligent students to take IB, the others will take DSE. Most likely the primary and secondary section of Logos will be following the local curriculum, except for those students who take IB in S5-S6. One of the most significant difference between Logos and ISF/VSA is that Logos is a DSS school, while the others are private independent schools, and all ISF and VSA students take IB Dp while only some students in Logos will take IB DP in senior years.


By the way, Canadian International School is also running full IB with good reputation, you may also consider, but the competition is keen too, they received 560 applications for 40 spots for Pre-Reception and 550 applications for 80 spots for Reception.

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Thank you caramom.

Babybaby2011

原帖由 caramom 於 13-05-07 發表
本帖最後由 caramom 於 13-5-7 17:46 編輯

Woooo... Would like to know whether you have insider information about no. of application received from ISF for Foundation Year  this year ?  I went to attend their briefing session in March this year, the school was reluctant to tell us the total no. of application received ~~~~

caramom

Babybaby2011 發表於 13-5-9 23:35
Woooo... Would like to know whether you have insider information about no. of application received f ...

[size=15.454545021057129px]This year, ISF have received 1,000 applications for Foundation Year (300 sibling applications received) for 150 spots. You may also check other IS application information on http://hongkong.geoschools.com/forum/13/thread4710.html