Harrow vs ISF 點揀？ 苦惱中

b3410

964000 發表於 20-10-22 08:27
我覺得ISF作風更似local，佢website已寫明homework is an integral part of school life, 亦有列明每天建 ...

G5 90 min 功課 的確有些多。

Kitgarrison

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請問點解由IB School轉 Harrow?Harrow 行AL，想知道IB同AL課程有咩分別？
因為我幫小朋友報緊國際學校，研究緊啲兩種課程嘅分別！
另外我仔報咗Harrow 22年K2，想了解一下，面試過程難嗎？

感謝🙏🏻解答

小寶貝兒

Kitgarrison 發表於 20-12-18 00:45
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請問點解由IB School轉 Harrow?Harrow 行AL，想知道IB同AL課程有咩分別？

其實果陣冇刻意一定轉AL，只係考慮中學時想揀IB或AL，咁第一間會揀間近啲，又考到就入左了。
以小學課程來講，教學方式相差不大，IB會自由啲，AL會比較有框架啲，但大家都係用project basic, 我諗大概到中學先會開始有比較大分別。
因為我女係考插班Y5，我自己覺得都幾難，因為有用電腦做試卷（英文，數學，邏輯等等）又要作文，最後再同校長面試，不過佢又唔係只揀完美完成既學生，我女話試卷佢都有啲唔識冇做到。
K2應該都係玩中觀察小朋友，同埋睇下佢哋英文口語程度，我記得Harrow網站有寫會考啲咩，可以上去參考下，雖然佢冇例子，我都係睇佢寫既然後去準備咋。

louloulemon

gavroche915 發表於 20-7-2 14:29
發覺很多時選擇 IS 呢條路既家長都有樓主你呢個煩惱。其實會否嘗試放開一 d ，從個大方向去選擇，對家長同 ...

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Emmamama17

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睇成績，睇中文，一定係ISF。Harrow成績一般。注重環境優美，和西式教育，Harrow。

bighang

Kitgarrison 發表於 20-12-18 00:45
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請問點解由IB School轉 Harrow?Harrow 行AL，想知道IB同AL課程有咩分別？

Just quote from Samuel Chan

“其實不同學制, 加拿大，澳洲，美國，各有好處。至於對於將來出國讀書，最重要英語水平保持高水準，有良好溝通能力，禮貌，品行。學校最大的challenge是如何保持學生對學習的興趣，能夠做到，就是好學校。”

siuta

Emmamama17 發表於 20-12-24 07:56
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睇成績，睇中文，一定係ISF。Harrow成績一般。注重環境優美，和西式教育，Harrow ...

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LLLT

Harrow每年大概有4-5個學生入Oxbridge。Year11會有一部分學生去英國讀Boarding school。同時也有一些能力高的IS 或LS學生入讀Harrow的A Level。近年成績和入大學情況穩定。

反而ISF就每年上落很大，很難比意見。

tingtingting

Most ISF students target US Universities. Have a look of ISF’s admissions to Ivy, you will be impressed.

tingtingting

ISF is now giving more support to students who want to apply to top UK uni. I guess it is the only school in HK that is able to produce organ scholars who could apply to and get offers from both Cambridge AND Oxford.

mtam22

Comparing ISF and Harrow is not exactly apples to apples.
My 2 cents worth, considering what ISF stands for and its unique teaching philosophy, parents should only consider ISF to VSA. Both place emphasis on mandarin so if you see your kids future as in the greater china area, ISF and VSA provides that level of language support with ISF a bit over the top in terms of mandarin focus.

Many parents want to push ISF's Chinese curriculum to Shanghai/Beijing local schools standard and the school is steadily moving towards (if not already at) that level. Hence if parents are not in a position to offer that level of mandarin support for the kids at home or if reciting Chinese poems is not "your thing", you shouldn't consider ISF. Even maths is being taught in Chinese at ISF. By the time they reach secondary school, the emphasis reverts to English with 70% of classes being taught in English. It's also around this time some kids head overseas as that's quite a solid foundation of Chinese they have at that stage.

As for English,  ISF is not the strongest on English support during primary school years but you will find that most ISF kids are almost native level English speakers probably because for a lot of them that's the spoken language at home. Of the 180 or so ISF foundation year places, ISF takes in a lot of students from Victoria. Around a quarter of that non-ISF kinde intake is from Victoria.  So if the kid don't speak mandarin on English at home as a first language, they'll find it very tough at ISF.
As mentioned before by other posters, ISF shouldn't be looked upon as an international school as it is not. Homework is  less harsh than local schools but parents are expected to  be involved. Many students have tutors in tow just like local schools.  Harrow and VSA being much more IS project style based.

Hope that helps.

莫失莫忘

mtam22 發表於 20-12-29 12:52
Comparing ISF and Harrow is not exactly apples to apples.
My 2 cents worth, considering what ISF st ...

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soha2018

gavroche915 發表於 20-7-2 14:29
發覺很多時選擇 IS 呢條路既家長都有樓主你呢個煩惱。其實會否嘗試放開一 d ，從個大方向去選擇，對家長同 ...

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