Phoenix

WYmom

Current fees for Phoenix is around $50,000 for P1 to 3, and $60,000 for P.4 to 6, $70-80K for Secondary onwards.  The fee will be increased a bit after moving to MOS.

MomMom

Gracemama,

The new campus of Yew Chung is in Kowloon Tong Norfuk Road no.1.  They will reduce the school fee due to the land of new campus was granted by the government.  They no need to pay the rental fee and the new campus can seat for more students so their running cost will be lesser.  Those information were obtained from the principal of Yew Chung secondary.  Yew Chung primary will have an open day in April.

Vrindavan

Ruby

>> will be very slim

i guess the chance will be much greater in the past
when they did not have the ESF kindergarten students

>> more Chinese lessons

If the school is weak on Chinese, i have to teach Chinese to him directly at home.
if the school is relatively strong in Chinese, i may let him use more English at home
Thus, i am flexible on his language exposure

>> Is your kid also entering P.1 this Sept ?

Yes, or take K3 next year

>> Which schools did you apply ?

SJS - waiting list
Phoenix - i applied it very late, still waiting their letter

Ruby1219

Vrindavan,

So, apart from SJS and Phoenix, you don't have other options ? Seems you are really keen on ESF ?

Do you mind telling me which kindy is your kid studying ? Or, you can pm me.

Ruby

Vrindavan

>>So, apart from SJS and Phoenix, you don't have other options ? Seems you are really keen on ESF ?

- other schools start at age 6
- other schools fees are too high for me

JJ9198

Ruby1219,

Phoenix is not an IB school, it claims that it will consider to use the IB system in the new school in Ma On Shan. Therefore it might take the school to establish as IB school in years.

Ruby1219

JJ9198,

Thank you. I know that. Phoenix does not hide this fact. While, I see their commitment in achieving it.

Ruby  

WYmom

Anyone knows the secondary schools allocation of Phoenix primary students? Are there students switched back to local secondary schools? Which ones?

Ruby1219

WYmom,

In case you don't know, Phoenix has its own secondary school.
I guess it's not common for the primary students to go to local secondary schools. Don't know which local school did they go. Maybe you can call their staff to ask about it. They are all very nice people.

Ruby

rookiemom888

Phoenix accepted my son last year but I chose ESF in the end.  Actually I really like Phoenix, I like their style and attitude, but my son has learning difficulties, ESF is more established and have more resources to help him.  

sjmama

Dear rookiemom888,
Could you tell me what kind of difficulties your son has? It's because my son is ASD. We're planning to apply to Phoenix.
In fact, we did apply ESF special programme, but we're told the waiting list is very long.

Ruby1219

Dear sjmama,

FYI, Phoenix does not have "special learning unit", the principal said for those kids with special needs, he would recommend the ESF schools instead.

Ruby

sjmama

Dear Ruby1219,
Thanks.
We know Phoenix doesn't have the special edu. programme. In fact, not all ESF schools have the programme. We just want to try to see if it will accept a kid with mild difficulties, as the waiting list for special edu of ESF is very long. We're told we should forget about it.  

Ruby1219

Sjmama,

You mean Phoenix asked you to forget about it ?
As I don't know what's exactly the 'issue' of your child, and I have no expertise in this area totally, it's hard to say whether it's acceptable to Phoenix. Just that from my last visit to their school, I saw that for the junior classes, i.e. P.1 or P.2, they do have an extra assistant in every class to take care of children who have 'difficulties' in the following the whole class.
I don't know whether this can solve your child's problem.
But my impression from their principal is he is a very nice and enthusiastic person, I felt that Phoenix is not that kind of snobbish schools, they are quite open to accept children as long as "they can learn" from their school.

Hope this would help.

Ruby

sjmama

Dear Ruby1219,
Thank you very much for your information!
It is an Edu Psy who advised us that we should forget about ESF. Therefore, we need to consider other schools. Your information re Phoenix is very useful. Many thanks.

rookiemom888

sjmama,

please see pm!

ALAL

rookiemom pl check pm. I would like to get some information from you.

sjmama,
you mean the Ed Psy said the queue for special program is very long for ESF so there is not chance to be admitted?

rookiemom888

ALAL and Sjmama,

please check pm. Hope it helps!

sjmama

Dear rookiemom888,
Thank you very much for your information! Pls. check PM.

sjmama

ALAL 寫道:

sjmama,
you mean the Ed Psy said the queue for special program is very long for ESF so there is not chance to be admitted?

Yes.