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siubotze 發表於 16-7-3 15:51
Which ESF school?

I gave up VSA for CWBS simply because my girl is very active and she is more su ...

Agreed. I think it depends on the children's personality. We went to Victoria Kindergarten and transfer to ESF Kindergarten. Don't like Vic quite stringent and focus on formality rather than ESF's focus on growing children suitable to their personality. Love ESF!

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Actually you are comparing 2 different things.

VSA is not a real international since most parents are from hk local school and mainland china.

Although they are IB school, the cultural background is different.

If you want your child to learn Chinese then pick VSA. VSA is an international organized by hk ppl

If you want your child to learn better English, pick esf. ESF is organized by westerners. Most parents are expats, studied overseas and have a home country other than hk. Most parents send their children to study abroad or send them back to their home country.

VSA is a "local" international school.....although they are IB, they target local parents who want to send their children to international school and learn intensive Chinese...

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本帖最後由 mross38 於 17-6-9 11:28 編輯

I have children in ESF primary in HK Island. Of course I like the school they are currently attending, but if I were given the offer from VSA, I would go for VSA, mainly because of more opportunity to learn better Chinese. I have friends with children at VSA, I am very impressed with the works they have done. Both also IB schools, but VSA seemed to have done "more" (I am not trying to quantify, and I am not a fan of homework load as well). What I see is more "structured curriculum" delivered by VSA (you got to know IB is NOT a curriculum). ESF school, based on my own experience, unless your child is self motivated and you monitor closely, they are likely to play through the years, they don't have lots of "obligation".

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本帖最後由 mross38 於 17-6-9 11:30 編輯

We don't speak lots of Chinese at home (for various reasons), we live in an expat neighbourhood, and most neighbour kids speak English, so y children have very low incentive to speak/ learn Chinese. They don't see they need Chinese at all. So if they were in VSA, they should be "forced" to pick up more Chinese. (Don't ask why didn't I chose local school... well, you know it's a very different thing!)
I don't mind about the "real" or "pretend" international school thing, it's the quality of the delivery that matters more.
Of course some of those with children of lower English proficiency and coming from more Cantonese community/family, they complain about their children not learning "good" English at VSA because of the huge canton speaking student population. Which is also true.

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Danjunior 發表於 16-7-3 11:45
好好彩2間都有offer Y1比我地，而家好頭痛唔知點揀。大家可以比啲意見嗎？謝謝。
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How could both offer you Y1? The Y1 (P1) at VSA should be Y2 at ESF

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It's a tough decision. My daughter is in Victoria K2 now but will move to ESF Y1 next year. If you want smaller class size, better teacher/student ratio and Chinese, pick VSA, if you are for better track record and better secondary school / placement , pick ESF (at least for now but I can see VSA will progress quickly in this aspect).

I will definitely miss the Chinese learning from Victoria. And I do believe they have a great curriculum at their Kindergarten level.