SC am + KV pm 的煩惱

Hwtsui

I guess you also need to consider your family condition (1) are parents both working which might prefer school with less parent involvement? (2) economic condition and 性價比 (SC hkd77k vs Kv 50k per year).

I am a KV parent, not sure on SC, but can share more on my own experience.

I am targeting 直私, understood KV is strong at 叩門 but 直私 also not bad esp 3私 offers (my boy gets not bad 直資 and 3私 offers). Through playing the interview game, I find that no matter which school you are in, many parents would let their children attend interview classes. And many interview qs and formats cannot be trained in KG. As such, i find KV is good for my situation.

I m working parent, just have ard 2-3 hrs per day for accompany on weekdays, and full day at weekends. In this limited time, I need to nurture interests for my boy (reading, piano, fencing and drawing), I also need to train up my boys interview skills. Hence I need my boy to be (1) self disciplined and finish all homework with little amendments before I go home (2) he can absorb the knowledge in the class and I dun have to invest more time to revise for his school assessments.

So far we can do it, so for the weekdays when I come home, we just practice piano, fencing and do some readings. We have extra time for card games as well. If school needs me to heavily involve in homework/assessment, meaning it would eat up our limited accompany time which I do not preferred.

Above are just my own experience for your reference. After all, different people would have different views.

Hwtsui

bearxxr 發表於 21-12-20 20:09
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Totally agree. We are also working parents and KV trained my boy well in terms o ...

Many posts saying KV needs to 外補 eng, my boy didn’t. Since I dun have to manage KG hw and assessment (luckily my boy can absorb knowledge well in school), so my hubby taught him phonics on his own, together with everyday bed time story, he has good reading and listening skills, and he speaks in eng with my helper everyday, hence he can communicate in eng although accent not native la haha

Over the 3 years we just 外補 interview class so to let my boy familiarise with the format, his English standard so far can handle interview, and he got CKY offer as well.

So, I guess it depends on the target of choosing a KG, if it is for 直私 interview, per my experience, I feel 中文 is more important and more difficult to nurture than English

Hwtsui

babyjjj 發表於 21-12-21 14:19
大前提係要好似你咁自己家庭提供埋英文語竟嘛。

本帖最後由 Hwtsui 於 21-12-21 15:23 編輯

I am ok in eng, but my husband is not. We tried to let our boy attend phonics class outside for around 2 months, but found that if we dun follow up at home actually we dunno where our boy is up to, and which blending he’s comparatively weak in. So, my husband self learnt phonics with the material we bought in book store, together with a 點讀筆, then practiced with my boy and focused on his weak parts.

So I think the most important is you need to devote time to nurture/accompany by our child. KV can give us time on this as no parent involvement is needed, and the school can make my boy absorb well all the knowledge in school, esp solid foundation on chi and maths. Then we can use our limited off work time to help out eng/reading/interests.

But I admit that parent involvement in school is part of parent-child life too, which I did experience as my boy studied in KM in one year before and the memories were sweet ones. Just for my case, KV suits my family more (emoji)

Hwtsui

bearxxr 發表於 21-12-21 17:55
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Which book do you use for his phonics? My kid is also week in phonics and we pla ...

I used rass language with 點讀筆, and can start reading ORT/read with Biff, Chip and Kipper/usborne English readers simultaneously

My hubby started to teach my boy in K1 term 2, around 5-6 months to finish all phonics books, and u can find your boy can read well with phonics done and find the reading fun. My boy likes biff chip and kipper stories, those are interesting and he could handle. Around early term 2 in K2, can conquer ORT 7, then you can continue to source interesting books for him.

My boy likes reading Mr men series and fly guy now (emoji)

Hwtsui

yhchanchan 發表於 21-12-30 13:19
我真係同你經驗差唔多。首先KV英文真係唔多語境，更加唔好要求accent，佢有net但堂數唔多。英文最終會夠你 ...

Absolutely agree.

At least from my 考直私 experience this year, Chinese is more challenging than English, so I think KV is good becoz it builds a solid foundation for my boy on this (of coz I also trained interview q with him). For eng, my boy has no native accent, but so far he gets no problem to cater eng part (during interviews, questions are usually to read some words/para, the most difficult is SFA which needs to describe a pic in eng), he could still make it, I guess as long as phonics is ok, then can handle eng part in interview easily.

Hence, back to the beginning, if the target is to 考直私, KV should be good enough to cater. If target is to have native English communication with good accent, then KV might not be good choice.(emoji)

Hwtsui

catbbcat 發表於 22-1-8 11:46
Thanks a lot for your informative sharing! Would you mind sharing about interview training? Did you ...

I did enrol in interview class for my boy. Per my experience, I think interview class with video sharing is better, as u can see ur child’s class performance, his strength and weakness (not only academic ones but also class discipline. When I showed the video to my boy, he could get immediately on his inappropriate behaviour). And I think it is necessary to practice abit with him at home as well, after all, interview class just give us a sense of interview format and possible questions, you might need to trim up weak area for your baby.