Year 9定Year 12好?

小恐龍

各位媽媽, 請問你地仔女係幾年班出國?  咩原因? 孩子適應嗎?  係全職媽媽既你又適應嗎?
去英國的話, Year 9我覺得年紀太細, 但到Year 12好學校就可能會好難入, 點揀?

Shootastar

If you want to create an impressive profile, you need several years to build up. I would prefer sending my kids to board school at Year 9 if I needed to send my kid overseas.

CarrieTse

Not definite answer for this question.  It depends on (1) your kid's maturity; (2) your kid's school in HK; (3) what's financial ability.
Some kids are very independent, they can go earlier but some kids can't take care of themselves even they are 16.  
If your kid's school is an English school, with certain level of english, he can go later.
Funding is also an important issue.  Three years involves quite a lot of money.
One point confusing, you mentioned go to UK, Year 9 is too young, how about other countries, any difference, would like to hear your opinion.

小恐龍

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你好!  唔好意思, 因我仔現就讀英制學校, 所以如果佢想出國讀中學, 英國係我首選, 所以我以英國為例, 而英國學校一般都係9同12班收生, 所以咁問。
我仔英語方面唔係問題, 出國留學非因想佢學好英語, 計劃係12班比佢出國, 但而2年眼見身邊親友仔女12班先去都入唔到心儀學校, 好學校都收精英, 我仔成績只屬一般, 所以擔心到12班時競爭會好大, 但第9班又好似太細, 13歲就要離開父母會唔會對小朋友成長有影響?   
你有仔女係英國讀書嗎? 可否分享下?
謝謝

Ding

我就下年俾個仔去讀 yr 7, 因為問過身邊曾留學的朋友，同事，佢分別有Yr 7，Yr 9，Yr 11，得到答案係Yr 7入係最好，最易適應同融合，因為中間插班時，佢地一早已經form左一班friend，個小朋友好難插入去佢地個圈子，而且佢地玩嘅運動同香港唔同，咁大個先入去好難跟住一齊玩，除非個小朋友本身好活躍主動喇。當然亦有例外

Verlo

I went to the UK in year 7. I would say the earlier the better. It's hard to make friends as you grow older, from my experience my friends that joined in year 12 tend to hang out with other Chinese students whereas the ones that started earlier will hang out with English students.

miffy3005

原帖由 Ding 於 12-11-14 發表
我就下年俾個仔去讀 yr 7, 因為問過身邊曾留學的朋友，同事，佢分別有Yr 7，Yr 9，Yr 11，得到答案係Yr 7入 ...

我個女也Y 7, 年紀細，較傻氣。只是開學兩個多月,已和全班同學好鬼friend 。只得佢一個chinese , 除了本地英國學生，還是其他有來自荷蘭，西班牙，阿布扎比，法國，德國 等，全都是新生比較容易熟絡。

另一位y 9的香港姐姐，也是新生，但就較難融入，因為同房的本地生已經從y7開始friend 咗。 另外的兩位是西班牙來的，又自成一派……, 結果，最friend 的也是另一位，來自香港的同學。

CarrieTse

My son starts from year 8.  He is the only Chinese year 8. He has many friends in the school.  He is a day student.  His classmate invites him to sleep over at their house over weekend.  

miffy3005

原帖由 CarrieTse 於 12-11-14 發表
My son starts from year 8.  He is the only Chinese year 8. He has many friends in the school.  He is ...

Hi ! Carrie,
哈哈，阿女的同學都係咁講。小朋友真係好熱情。

CarrieTse

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Compare with the Hong Kong kids, they are much simple and easy be friend with.  

小恐龍

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你好!  你仔讀寄宿嗎?  
我計劃係想比呀仔讀寄宿, 我唔會跟去, 所以擔心13歲太細。

小恐龍

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你好!  你女兒應該係寄宿吧?  呀女有冇唔適應?

小恐龍

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因為我計劃比佢讀寄宿, 我唔會跟去, 所以較擔心.........我係咪擔心得太多........
我仔唔主動, 但算活躍, 佢都好喜歡去朋友屋企sleep over, 但我連請佢同學仔來屋企玩都唔多想, 因為試過2次, 只係3個同學仔, 拆我間屋咁滯.......

Ding

佢係讀寄宿學校，我又唔太擔心佢適唔適應，因為咁細個會好快適應，反而擔心佢跟唔跟得上！

miffy3005

原帖由 小恐龍 於 12-11-15 發表
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你好!  你女兒應該係寄宿吧?  呀女有冇唔適應?

little dinosaur ,
我個女係讀全寄宿的。

開學的頭一，兩個星期她也會說掛念屋企，想返來，喊晒………我還要安慰她，跟她說些鼓勵說話，其實，我心裏也在流淚呢! 忍住………,收咗線先流出來:’(
所以，你所擔心的一切，我們也很明白。 家長也要有心理準備，預咗頭一，兩個月也有這些情況發生。感恩地，阿女在第二個星期，學校開始正式上，整天也很忙，想家的情緒有很大的改善。 皆因與同學仔friend 晒!  

如果經濟條件許可，小朋友又喜歡，我非常讚成Y 9前過去，小朋友的適應能力，往往比我們想像中高。 之前我們所擔心的一切，都係'諗多咗'.

最重要是選擇合適的學校，如果是全寄宿，最好寄宿生比例要多些。 那麼學校在宿舍，課後活動，假期活動等等，的安排會較佳。

CarrieTse

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It's true that there are many subjects, Phy, Chem, Bio, Eng, Maths, Philosophy and Ethics or Bible study, History, Geography, French, Russian, German, Drama.  They don't have formal assessments in Y7 and Y8 but they will have many quiz.  You will receive a report every half term showing his work.  They emphasis the kid's attitude more than ability.  Don't worry!

Ding

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Thanks Carrie, maybe Im worrying too much ..

CarrieTse

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My son will start boarding from Year 9 next year.  We let him in day school for one year, make sure the transition period can go smoothly.
We are staying in a small town and people here are friendly, not much Chinese in school.   

CarrieTse

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Can understand!  As parents, even though my son came from band 1 english school in HK, I will worry if he can completely understand the teacher's lecture and instructions, if he can work along with the peers, if he will be bullied, if he is happy.  
May be we are staying in a small town? may be my son is the only Chinese? may be this school is particularly welcome Chinese? we don't know.....the year 8 classmates came to shake hands with my son and introduce themselves at the main dining hall during lunch time on the first school day.  There are five Year 8 class in my son's school.  Since everyone has different time table, they will know each other within one week.   

Regarding academic side, the school is doing small classes, for english, math, phy, chem, bio, they will categorize the kids with their levels.  There is TOP SET classes.   

No matter any subjects, there will be learning support, e.g. if you can't do well on particular homework, the teacher will notify the learning support teacher, the teacher will find you and take you to support.  You can't escape!  For languages, in-house learning support teachers can't handle, you willl be charged for extra lessons.   Homework group after school is available too.

My son, as "english as second language" student, he needs to sit in IELT exam, therefore, he will not have French lesson, the time will be swifted to ESL.   

Hope the above info can release your worry a little bit!

Ding

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Thanks Carrie, your detailed informations would relieve my worrying.

He will go to a boarding school next year, which is in a small town. You know, it is danger if it is near London !