CAIS vs ICS (Int'l Christian School)

erida

Could some helpful parents please devote some comments or information on this topic?

I'm also considering between CAIS and ICS. Definitely both are good in terms of students' discipline and biblical education. Both of them are genuine Christian schools with daily devotion and biblical inputs to students in all aspects.

According to my friend, academic results from ICS is better in general as their GPA scores are higher than those from CAIS. However, ICS maybe quite pushy on academic performance and the councellor can only point out students' problems but not solve with them. This may discourage students in the end. More ICS students take after-school tuition classes but not for CAIS's. The studying environment of ICS is keen.

During interview, I felt CAIS's staff were more sincere and caring. Vice Headmistress met us individually and then Headmaster greeted us (we're waiting outside his room) and answered lots of questions. Teachers-students relationship are close.

My consideration is, I like ICS's academic standard guarantee, as well as it's hgiher standard in Chinese language (one of the highest in HK among all IS), and it is prestigious in IS, but I believe CAIS can provide better caring and inner development to kids with closer workout among kids-teachers-parents.

I need to pay deposit to CAIS by this Friday. Hope I can receive results from ICS by that day. All in all, both schools should be good to my kid.

erida

Hi InitalD

my info about the Chinese Standard came from my son's school PTH teacher. i don't think the comparison include SIS (btw, is it "Singapore IS"?) coz they seldom have graduates to HK side.

what i understand is, according to my sch visit at ICS, students can compose a 1-page passage in simplified Chinese in G5 or 6, which is acceptable to me. and PTH teacher said ICS is eager to put effort and resources on improving their Chinese standard. that's what i know so far.

A school visit definitely can help us know more about our target IS. Hope the above info are useful to u.

原帖由 InitialD 於 10-1-26 14:30 發表
Please advise the chinese standard of CAIS when compare to ESF or SIS?

erida

just called the administrator of ICS. my son failed on the assessment. so we'll just stick to CAIS. wish the others good luck!

erida

The administrator said they'll release the result on Friday (maybe via phone or mail). coz I have to pay deposit by Friday, so i called her today and got the result. u all still have chances! She said there're around 75-76 seats for P.1 and around 50 from ICS kinder but ICS kinder also have to go through the test. I think they select those with highest scores and put the remaining qualified ones to waiting list.

Good luck to u all!