拔萃女小學功量如何？

PoohsBaby

Any current DGJS parent can give some comments about homework?

- how long are girls expected to spend on homework everynight?
- DGJS use English as medium of instruction except Chinese.  What is the level Chinese homework compared
to other school?  

Thanks.

season_sincere

There are not too many homework and most girls can be able to handle those. No worries ;)

Both English and Chinese are taught at high standard!

babydady

I think the workload for homework is huge.  My daughter always finishes her homework at mid night and she doesn't have enough sleep.  Therefore, I need to cut some of her after school activities in order to get more time to sleep.  The situation only acceptable when she was in P.1.  After P.1, lots of homework, tests, dictations and exams will come.  The influence not only on my daughter, my whole family needs to face it and we don't have leisure time.

tumtum

My daughter now in P.1 and the workload, to me, is very heavy for a P.1 kid.  Every day after school, she will spend 1/2 an hour eating her snack, and then start homework and studying.  The chinese writing homework takes up the most amount of time, and if there is a test or dictation the next day (which happens alot), then she will be stuck at her desk until 10am when it is time to go to bed.  Then on weekends, she needs to catch up on reading reports, diaries, art homework, and studying for tests for the coming week. It was like that for most days in Oct and Nov.  It is very tiring not just for her but also for the parents.  

Jane1983

朋友笑言，入女拔so far最開心係收到offer果個暑假。

LSKLTK

dele

season_sincere

Perhaps this really depends on different kids. My girls find the workload acceptable and so do their close friends. I never have to worry about their homework or academics.

williskg

homework is not heavy. You can finish in less than 1 hr. English and chinese are not too tough. but the school has alot of reading scheme which encourage the student to read more.

bobbi

何苦呢!

sell2japan

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確實是何苦呢！

一個就算是成年人也不曉的道理～「少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲」

究竟入讀「名校」能否訓練小朋友明白箇中奧妙呢？當中能有幾人？

tws2010

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Strange.  My friend said not much homework on Chinese writing. Maybe it's just during honeymoon period.  

A-Mum

I also think that homework load is ok. 12 lines of 中文生字 can hardly be called too much in HK local schools.

sp3014

其實都好睇父母的expectation的。我有兩個朋友的囝同年入咗喇沙,我覺得兩個小朋友都ok,無話邊個特別叻。但佢地d父母,一個叫晒救命,一個又話ok喎。原來一個好緊張,d unseen dictation 一次默得唔好就都幾緊張下一次unseen dictation。另一個只要求有比範圍的做好就得,d unseen 同sudden quiz 就無咩要求。我唔係話個個家長都係咁情況，不過我有感而發,覺得有時辛苦與否都視乎家長心中的尺。

janeba

似乎同一份功課，或同一間學校，不同父母和小孩都有不同的體會。同意sp3014的說法，找一間合適自己和小孩的學校，或因應環境而在學習上作出適量改變也很重要。
我了解的拔萃功課真的不多，學校也沒如其它學校的分班和考試名次，父母和學生也少了升中派位的壓力，父母大可輕鬆一點，小孩多一點時間發展自己的興趣和才能。

williskg

拔萃功課真的不多，學校也沒如其它學校的分班和考試名次，父母大可輕鬆一點，小孩多一點時間發展自己的興趣和才能。

this is what they want in the primary junior form.

PoohsBaby

Thank you all for your comments.  The opinions are very different indeed. Some parents actually think it is a burden to the family. Didn't you expect that when you decided to send your girl to such an elite school as DGS? It sounds like the majority of parents think the homework load is fair.

A-Mum

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I think family life and routines must change when kids go to primary school, no matter which one. But I don't think we should expect or accept the whole family to be stressed to limits.
P1 kids are still young, some of them need more time to adapt. Once they are more attentive in class and can write faster with stronger small muscles, they will do better. Let's keep our hopes up!