English speaking kid to local school?

Leeah's mum

PMI is an acronym for Putonghua as a Medium of Instruction
EMI is an acronym for English as a Medium of Instruction

Both are types of schools that exists in Hong Kong apart from your regular schools which use Cantonese as a Medium of Instruction.

The "Medium of Instruction" that a school uses will affect how subjects like Mathematics, General Studies, Art etc. is taught. In an EMI, they are supposed to be taught in English.

I don't know which PMI school is good or which EMI is good. I only know that Kowloon Tong Government Primary is a great school to send a local kid to. Unfortunately though, it uses Cantonese as a medium of instruction.

Good Luck with your search.
 
If you say pre-school my son is studying in Parkview International Pre-school located at Kowloon Station of MTR, it's a brand new school just open in this month. You can apply for local stream which they have two class teachers one is Cantonese and the other is Mandarin.

Hope this helps!
 
Universe, I live at The Waterfront and am very interested in PIPS Kowloon. I know it's just opened but how does your kid find it? Which year are they in? Are you in the Cantonese or Mandarin stream? They told me that the class size for local stream is 28 kids which I think is very large.

Would be interested to hear more....
 
Hi,
I am sending my 3 year old to Cantonese local kindy next month.
The school is called Tsung Tsin Mission Graceful Kindergarten in Kam Tai, Shatin area.
I think he is at the age where he is very confident and can handle half a day learning a new language and I don't particularly care if he "passes" the subjects at this age anyway.
I am lucky though because my husband is the NET teacher there so I think I have a big benefit with that as he can keep an eye on things as my son is the only westerner enrolled.

I am interested in the PIPS school also for the Mandarin stream in the future once my son can survive in cantonese. But I also am considering Renaissance as it is so close to us and I have heard good things about there mandarin instruction.

Universe - how much does PIPS cost per month??
 
Leeah's mom said:
Thank you all of you for kind replies.

I have some more questons..
Angelmhhui,[/B] you mentions DDS, PLK and CKY, could you please explain to me? are they school names????

Leeah's mom,

DSS - Direct Subsidy School (Government has subsidy to the school).
Private - No Subsidy from Govt.

This is the web site of H.K. local primary school. You can find the information of local primary school here.
http://chsc.edb.hkedcity.net/primary/


a. P.L.K. Camoes Tan Siu Lin Primary School
http://www.plkctslps.edu.hk
b. St. Margaret's Co-educational English Secondary & Primary School
http://www.smcesps.edu.hk
c. Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School
http://www.cky.edu.hk

My daugther is 4 years old, so I am also looking for primary school. Personally I prefer St. Margaret. The school will group the students into different grouping by their academic level and review periodically.

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Personally I prefer St. Margaret. The school will group the students into different grouping by their academic level and review periodically.

As a teacher, I've seen this fail or succeed is schools. By banding them according to their abilities can do more harm than good. Schools are moving away from this as it becomes a label on a child. Imagine students been in the lower ability class, they can get discouraged and in turn, they may not be motivated to do well. There's also a possibility that some kids spent all their 6 yrs in a primary school in a 'dumb' class. In the higher ability class, it can create more stress for the child as the child is competing with all the smart kids. And there are times that the child's results suffers because of the constant competition and also the lack of confidence. Personally, I much prefer a holistic look on the child's education rather than basing everything academically.
 
"As a teacher, I've seen this fail or succeed is schools. By banding them according to their abilities can do more harm than good. Schools are moving away from this as it becomes a label on a child."

I am not the parent of St. Margaret. But I understand that the grouping does not like some local school's "精英班"(enrichment class) or "補底班"(remedial class). For example, there are 80 students from two classes then it will divide into 3 groups for English and other 3 group for Maths. The teaching method just like international school. Students will not label as good or bad. But anyway, parents should go to attend school briefing for details.

:flower:
 
angelmhhui said:
"As a teacher, I've seen this fail or succeed is schools. By banding them according to their abilities can do more harm than good. Schools are moving away from this as it becomes a label on a child."

I am not the parent of St. Margaret. But I understand that the grouping does not like some local school's "精英班"(enrichment class) or "補底班"(remedial class). For example, there are 80 students from two classes then it will divide into 3 groups for English and other 3 group for Maths. The teaching method just like international school. Students will not label as good or bad. But anyway, parents should go to attend school briefing for details.

:flower:
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That's a good point. Attend the open day and the school briefing to get a better idea of the school before deciding which school to put your child in
 
talk2amy said:
Does anyone know of any good Cantonese and Mandarin bilingual pre-schools in Kowloon? I am not fussed with English too much because both my husband and myself are native speakers. Thanks
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Try Learning Habitat Kindergarten & Billingual Nursery school. http://www.learninghabitat.org/

Around 10-15% of the pupils are non-Chinese, e.g. native English speaking children, Japanese, Indian...etc. And most of the Chinese pupils and their parents can speak very good English.

For Pre-Nursery: 1 Cantonese + 1 Native English speaking teacher + 1 teaching assistant

For k1-K3: Local class (1 Cantonese + 1 Native English speaking teacher), Intl' class (1 Mandarin speaking teacher + 1 Native English speaking teacher)

For K2-K3 full day class: 1 Japanese lesson per week

That's mean, your child will learn 4 languages.

I knows a pupil who did not know any Chinese but became able to speak Mandarin after going to school for 3 months only.

Never look down on the children learning ability :flower:
 
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