Help 聖嘉勒小學一問

Ms.ChanChan

hoiyin，

小女2年前考插班，星期六筆試，第二個星期二，三(3，4日後)就收到取錄通知。

hoiyin

Ms.ChanChan
書面通知定電話架?thx
因為如果唔收佢,佢想快d試下第二間

Ms.ChanChan

hoiyin，

電話通知的，其實如果真係心儀間學校，可以打個電話去問下，以示誠意。

不過你唔好介意我咁講，如果讀出面一般學校成績都強差人意的話，入去st clare會唔會仲辛苦呢？

hoiyin

唔係兒甥女..係我老公個妹黎架,我老公同佢個妹差十幾年..
轉校係因為南區派位好差,我都同奶奶講過就算個女入左佢可能考得重差添,不過佢地都想試下,想插5年班

Ms.ChanChan

hoiyin，

五年級
好難追o窩! GS係用英文教，好多生字要記。 有無check過升中的%？如果升唔番st clare中學部咪弊？三思三思。

hoiyin

佢間學校派英中得21人..聖嘉勒起碼有70%呀?
你個囡囡幾年班呀?做咩要轉校ge

Ms.ChanChan

hoiyin，

咁祝你老公個妹成功啦!
不如聽日就打個電話問下，好過心掛掛。

我女當年因為讀開間學校停辦，所以無計要轉。 當年係考插小二的，但結果都無入st clare，今年阿女升小四喇!

hoiyin

thanks

uncleedward

Dear byi

Your question is one the most favourable questions the parents of St Clare's students like to ask me. To stay or not to stay, that's the question.

If you ask someone else, you are likely to be given some general and not-too-useful answers like "there will be risk involved." I hate to give such answers. To me, the question we should ask should be "what is the level of risk?" A good gambler has to calculate the odds against him before he put down his bet.

I am neither an education expert nor a mathematician but it doesn't take either to do the following simple calculation from published data:

According to EMB's statistics for 2004/2005, we have 3,102 students in Central & Western net (Net HK1) and there are 1,034 seats from the English schools in this net. Band 1 students account for 1/3 of the 3,102 students, i.e. the magic number of 1,034 again.

This is still too general. Let's drill down into details for a more meaningful guess. We are talking about a girl here. To make it safe, let's assume band 1 girls account for 50% of the total band 1 students. Then we have around 520 band 1 girls in this district. Then comes a little secret. Sacred Heart's secondary section belongs to southern district while the primary section belongs to central & western district. That means there are over 100 band 1 girls from central western district going to study in southern district and thus not competing with the other band 1 girls for the English school places in central & western district. I suspect this is one of the ingenious little designs some smart civil servants come up to give some subtle preferential treatment to students in central and western district. Then we have around 420 band 1 girls left in the net.

We have 3 decent girls school in this net: Ying Wah (with no feeder school), St Stephen’s Girls and St Clare's. My estimate is that out of the latter two schools, around 120 band 1 girls will stay with their schools, then we can take out another 120 girls from the competing pool. Then we have around 300 band 1 girls competing for the remaining English school places. If you add up all the places (open and discretionary) available in this net (it doesn't take long since we are talking only a small number of schools here), there are more than 300 places

In other words, despite the existence of feeder schools where band 2 girls are guaranteed an English school seat, you can see all band 1 girls in this net are guaranteed an English school seat as well.

Ying Wah takes in around 150 band 1 girls from this net. You can see the odds for your daughter. As for the tactics to maximize your girl's chance, this is a one-million-dollar question I am more than happy to explore with you over a Sunday brunch you buy me and my family (ha ha)

Ms.ChanChan

uncleedward,

Please check pm, tks.

Charlotte_mom

uncleedward,
interesting calculation. Thank you for your help
但係我都係好怕教署失驚無神又改升中policy, 我而家so far都係plan到小學, 當然有直屬中學就最好, 但都唸唔到咁遠...
st. claire's不嬲俾我既印象都好好, 如果佢肯收我個女, 我都真係要還神....而家都係盡量做好自己果part, 至於小朋友interview表現....真係希望佢到時醒醒目目啦

byj

Dear Unceedward

Tks so much for your reply !  That's the most detail, objective and informative reply I've got!  You are great, thanks a million!  In that case, if my girl continue to do well in the coming years, I may take the risk to try Ying Wah.  Actually I prefer St. Stephen's Girls, but the gate seems even higher.  

Dear Hoiyin

If your sister-in-law wish to be admitted, she must prepare to study hard because in St. Clare, teachers will not train you to get high marks, parents have to participate a lot esp in GS.  

uncleedward

Dear byj

St Stephen's Girls or Ying Wah? That is another a-million-dollar question parents in this district often ask me. But since you are still a couple of years away from the decision time, do not worry about this for the time being la.

uncleedward

Dear Ms.ChanChan

Pls check your pm. I am not sure if I have managed to send the message succesfully since this was the first time I played with pm.

Ms.ChanChan

uncleedward,

Received your pm with thanks!

uncleedward

Dear byj

As you are interested in the comparison between Ying Wah and St Stephen Girls', I have finally put together something in a post in the secdonary school section of this forum. Pls check it out.

uncleedward

Dear Ms.ChanChan

Pls check your pm for additional information you required.

uncleedward

Dear yeunglc

pls check for the reply to your pm.

hoiyin

我先生個妹剛剛收到通知話收左佢
想問下測驗計唔計落考試分同埋功課多唔多架?thx

uncleedward

Dear Hoiyin

Congratulations! There are four tests and two exams each year. The test average and and exam result are shown separately in the report card. An annual aggregate score is also shown at the end of the year.

I would say the daily homework volume is just about average, but as someone pointed out the school provides little assisstance for preparing the tests and exams. A close-to-full-time parental involvement is expected. Please also check your pm.

hoiyin 寫道:
我先生個妹剛剛收到通知話收左佢
想問下測驗計唔計落考試分同埋功課多唔多架?thx