有無加拿大國際的家長？

jolalee

oneonemama 發表於 15-9-25 23:21
Thanks! 但我真係有考慮比仔仔返加拿大讀私校的

如果打算回加拿大讀私校的話，CDNIS的確可以選擇。多年前我做research時看到CDNIS的成績跟所有加拿大學校比較是top的，受歡迎程度不俗。當然新情況要過幾年才知。

另外要清楚mass intake現在改早了。以前CDNIS pre-reception (k1) 收40人, 然後 reception (k2) 加收80人, preparatory (k3) 加收5人，所以reception考進去最易入。現在 pre-reception收多兩班，而 reception 總人數冇變，即 PR 同R 的收生數目大致對換，所以如果PR入唔到，R入相繼較難入了。有加藉䕶照幫助未必最大，最緊要看 interview 表現。

oneonemama

原帖由 jolalee 於 15-10-03 發表
本帖最後由 jolalee 於 15-10-3 07:40 編輯

Thanks for your information!
想問下入你小朋友考pre-k 之前，有無返playgroup?
Actually, my son is attending anfield's playgroup, do u think it is good enough for preparing him for the interview?
Actually, I do worry about the interview.... As my boy needs long time for warm up....

jolalee

Anfield playgroup should be fine.

My son was in a playgroup and then K1 equivalent in the same school, surrounded by mostly Caucasian classmates (his school was in Discovery Bay). We spoke to him mainly in English before age 3. However, I know some families who do speak to their kids in Cantonese and they are in as well (whether they have some other priorities or not, i do not know), but yeah, everyone went to a different school beforehand: Kingston, Woodlands, TT, PIPS, Montessori, Starter, KCIS etc etc. I'm sure there are kids from Anfield as well.

oneonemama

原帖由 jolalee 於 15-10-05 發表
Anfield playgroup should be fine.

My son was in a playgroup and then K1 equivalent in the same sch ...

Most playgroup with Caucasian classmate is all far far away from home, and it takes around an hour for traffic

jolalee

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An hour! Wow, that'd be too far. We used to live in Tung Chung (with an expat community already), but we like the unique school that happens to be in Dbay. By bus it was about 30 minutes door-to-door, just the max amount of traveling for kindergarten aged kids.

Anfield is good though, so just ensure he has sufficient native English exposure. At this age it's all parallel play anyway.

HKTHK

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Interesting perspective. From afar as an outsider, don't see how that jibes with the facts

jolalee

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Yup, the media reports were basically one sided, and many parents including myself were notified of the 'problem' from that side as well. Only those who were willing to talk to everyone and kept asking questions realize that, the facts were subject to interpretations.

As with most conflicts, neither side was wholly 'right'. Politics.

Unfortunately, teachers & parents were dragged into it.

Ming_Yan

jolalee 發表於 15-10-2 21:22
To be honest I find the school culture has swung to the more serious side this year (in comparison  ...

My son is in grade 9 now and he came to CDNIS at grade 7 from La Salle primary school.He enjoys going to school and he loves most of the teachers. I feel the teachers are full of passion and they are very professional.   My son told me the teachers are very patient to explain anything he did not understand.
I was quite worry last year and had had a thought that whether it is a right choice to change him to CDNIS, after I gathered more information from different parties, I had the same conclusion as above.
I hope the school will be on the right track very soon.

Congee_Noodle

原帖由 jolalee 於 15-10-02 發表
本帖最後由 jolalee 於 15-10-2 21:24 編輯

Thanks for your sharing!!! I am new here, so I am not able to compare with the situation before. If as of what you have said, I think it's really a good change. I feel quite well with the class this year and I can feel the passion of teaching from the teachers.

jolalee

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The teachers have always been passionate in our school. It's just more balanced this year ;)

nicohjchen

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thanks for sharing! we will be having an interview of Pre reception next Jan!

Jacktheking

How does the Chinese class standard like when compare to local schools and other international school? Thank you!

Choochootrain

Sorry, 我係新mami, I want to know more about Chinese level and 校風 too,

type409

小學中文程度大概落後於本地學校兩至三年 (最高級既中文班)。中學唔清楚。

不能同IS比，間間唔同。

Jane1983

學校日日有中文堂，但整個小學有評估，無考試，所以，吾係話學生到幾年班，中文大致會達到怎樣的程度。學生有中文水平好皮毛的（尤其較大才由加國或外國轉入的），亦有屋企好重視，水平吾錯的。

lijacq

My daughter went from local school to CDNIS in grade 8 and there are many students there with equivalent if not higher standards of Chinese than her.  So, there are classes for advanced Chinese if the student's family have more support for the language environment.

Jane1983

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係，屋企的取態係好緊要。

lijacq

As most kids grow up together for many years, we notice therr is a year to year culture.  My daughter's grade is more academic, the year before her is very artsy, etc.  You can see the CDNIS graduation videos to get a feel for the kids and the close relationship they have with the teachers.

msmiu

So how u find the level of Chinese teaching there? I want my kids to be as bilingual as possible. She got taken by CAIS already but we didn't apply cdnis because of the turmoil... But we can always put in a form :) if it's good:)

lijacq

Level of Chinese is good, but we speak Cantonese at home.  My daughter is only qualified to do IB Chinese level B, but quite many kids are doing IB Chinese Level A which is native level Chinese and some of these kids start from Prep, so home grown kids going for IB Chinese level A is quite impressive.  But as I say, it depends upon whether you use Chinese at home.  For some kids, their Mandarin is better than Cantonese, so I think school has done excellent job in Chinese.