My daughter got an offer from RC in the first round last year and back then she couldn't even read "yes" and "no". The school states in one of the PowerPoints in their website that they don't test the kids on what they had learnt but whether they are ready to learn. I guess for a through-train IB school like RC, they are really looking for children who engage well with the teacher during the interview and get along well with other children.
In the beginning of the school year, the class teacher (she is also the year one coordinator) asked if my daughter is having any extracurricular activities and I told her only swimming and ice-skating, nothing academic. Her answer was "kids should have fun and learning is for us to care about". So, I guess they are really not looking for kids who are academically strong during the interview.
ReinaCora 發表於 18-2-10 17:55
My daughter got an offer from RC in the first round last year and back then she couldn't even read " ...
That’s good to know. But during the school tour, the RC admin officer told us they would ask kids to write their names in an interview, while foundation schools said they wouldn’t expect kids to be able to write at this age.
I am not sure about writing names but that's pretty basic for a K2 kid right? Could the admission manager mean "all your child need to do is to write his/ her names"? And nothing more than that..
I think it's just a way to test whether the child understand the instruction and even if he/she wrote the name in the ugliest way, it won't matter much...