Renaissance college 一問

Radiomama

My son is RC student too and he is going to be Year 3.  
If you want to learn more about the school life, you could visit my blog.
http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/wai.echo

Radiomama

Hi suzanlai,

I would say RC is different from other ESF primary schools and she'd pick smart kids relatively.
Fluent english is just one of the keys and the teachers also like polite, responsive and knowledgeable kids.  (The Y1 class teacher of my son is one of the interviewer)

原帖由 suzanlai 於 11-6-30 00:53 發表
are your kids in SC having mandarin/eng or cantonese/eng? did you trained your kids english speaking skills intensively? i heard RC pick students with high english speaking ability, am i right?

Radiomama

ESF-must offer places to Cat. I and the requirement is--the kids could only speak english.
RC-fluent english is a must plus the performance during interview as well as the performance shown in the previous school report.

Radiomama

Hi hi, add oil!!

Radiomama

Prepare for Year One:
1) Toilet training
2) Lunch training
3) Talk to your lovely kid everyday
4) Reading
5) Putonghua

Radiomama

Our kids will not be in the same class!  I will sure miss your Ms Clever!

原帖由 琬晴B 於 11-7-8 16:02 發表
Thank you for your support, Radiomama.
Will our children be in the same class again this year?

To Mrs. Wong,
I've replied to your PM. In short, I believe an appropriate amount of drilling ...

Radiomama

Never too late.
1) Reading is kind of habit and you'd better start it from the early stage.
2) Does your kid learn phonics?  Ask him to start magic writing-write whatever he could say it aloud.  It works.

Radiomama

1) Bedtime story telling + daytime reading
- read side by side
- don't push him to read/recognise any words
- you could point at the words and read to him

2) Magic Writing is a method, not a book
- eg. 我仔仔k2時在課堂習作上寫下"IF NT OPN AND KLS TH BLD WILL NOT GOIN", 老師解讀密碼後在旁寫上: "if not open and close, the blood will not going."
- Actually some kids in Year One write in this way.  It's still fine.  However, teacher will guide them to write bits by bits.

Radiomama

"Magic Writing" is a term used by some kindergarten teachers.  It means - the kids write something by themselves and should be decoded afterwards.  It is because the sentence is full of spelling and grammatical mistakes.  However, it is the first stage of writing but not copying.