Studing Internation kindergarten is difficult to get into normal primary sc

longchumama

Any good international kindgarten others than THINK and HK preschool in Shatin area???  Thanks for the advise...

joenkm

ICS

Blythe_miki

Once get into international, the kid will not able to go back local school. it will be very hard and difficult for him/ her.

ICS Primary have chinese teaching.

WYmom

Blythe_miki 寫道:
Once get into international, the kid will not able to go back local school. it will be very hard and difficult for him/ her.

ICS Primary have chinese teaching.

I don't think so.  Now in fact more local schools accept students from international kinder as their English is better.  I know some friends have kids studying in international kinders (YMCA, ESF, Yew Chung, Think etc) and then get accepted by PLK CKY, TSL, Maryknoll ...

longchumama

Tks for the information!  I heard of Boxhill b4 but it sound expensive, right?  Do you know how much per annum.  
And what do you think about greenfield, good health or wellborne?  
And I really think Chinese is same important as Eng. nowsaday.  And that why I want him to switch in primary school...

WYmom

Yes, English and Chinese are equally important, yet the teaching approach is even more important as it affects the development of interest in study, reading habbit, self-motivation, creativity, way of thinking, organization and structure ... IS seems to be better in this aspect.  Not quite sure if those new DSS can achieve this, can see results only after a few more years.

evaclw

longchumama 寫道:
Tks for the information!  I heard of Boxhill b4 but it sound expensive, right?  Do you know how much per annum.  
And what do you think about greenfield, good health or wellborne?  
And I really think Chinese is same important as Eng. nowsaday.  And that why I want him to switch in primary school...

What are your children studying now? If you want him to study in traditional primary shool. You better do not sent him to international kindergarten. In Ma On Shan, Greenfield is not bad. The ratio of English teacher is quite large. You can choose to let your son to attend English session in afternoon.

Sweetiebarney

My boy is studying in a int'l kindergarten and I heard from the principal that some kids got into local schools such as Maryknoll, DBS, St. Francis after K3.   

longchumama

Yes you are right..my boy is shy and I would like him to build up self-confident and create his interest of learning in his early age.  I am happy to know some of the IS kinder still can switch to traditiaonl primary school , but still I think it will quite hard at the beginning..

evaclw

If you plan to switch your to tradition primary school, you should keep him to learn more Chinese. My son switch to IS since K2. At first, he wonder why he had no homework to do. He even complaint to his father why he had no homework from school. Now he enjoys his school life very. Compare with my friend's son, he has  to write many Chinese word as homework.

Darth

我反而知有 d 特登比小孩入有中文學的國際幼稚園，等小朋友英文好 d ，再考名校。
我知 yew chung 同 kingston 有類似的小孩。
我自己有個朋友的女兒都係咁，讀 yew chung 讀到 p1 (即等如 k3)，之後入到 dgs。
不過佢個女細細個都好突出；突出之意，又唔係話真係成績好 top，或者好靚女，而係真係好有自信，好 graceful。如果佢係同一堆小朋友一齊，你會容易留意都佢。
有 d 人 (& 小朋友)，真係一世都唔起眼，永遠 fade into the background，(唔關佢個人能力)。

WYmom 寫道:
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Blythe_miki 寫道:
Once get into international, the kid will not able to go back local school. it will be very hard and difficult for him/ her.

ICS Primary have chinese teaching.

I don't think so.  Now in fact more local schools accept students from international kinder as their English is better.  I know some friends have kids studying in international kinders (YMCA, ESF, Yew Chung, Think etc) and then get accepted by PLK CKY, TSL, Maryknoll ...[/quote]

WYmom

CherylMum 寫道:
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Darth 寫道:
我反而知有 d 特登比小孩入有中文學的國際幼稚園，等小朋友英文好 d ，再考名校。

But it is quite hard for the children to adapt to the local school again.  In an international school setting, the children are so happy, I can't believe my daughter can get back to the relative boring setting of many (if not all) local schools.
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Agree with Darth.  Basically most kinders (local or international) offer happy school lives, and they need to adapt to different settings in primary schools anyway, local or IS depending on the parents' wishes.

longchumama

yes, cherylmum...I think the transitional time may be harsh for the child...and I cannot make up my mind yet..and most important is I need to observe more about my son personality, it may help me to make the decision...

Darth

"好難" 同 "不可能" 係兩件事。
你 "不會做" 的，亦未必表示你會 "做不到"。

你覺得未必得，我就覺得未必唔得。
雖然我都唔會將我 D 小朋友由國際學校轉去主流學校，我識好多人都係咁，都讀得上去，冇問題。

個人選擇囉。

CherylMum 寫道:
I cannot be so sure though.

My daughter is now in ESF P1.  She is very used to the casual and happy class setting in her class.  On the other hand, she hates the after-school Mandarin lessons which are similar to a local school setting and refuses to attend such lessons anymore.

I can't say this is impossible to switch from an international kinder to a local school (I knew a friend who has done so), but just that the kids might have a difficult transitional period.  I don't want to take that risk.

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WYmom 寫道:
Basically most kinders (local or international) offer happy school lives, and they need to adapt to different settings in primary schools anyway, local or IS depending on the parents' wishes.

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