The ISF Academy. 弘立書院

狄麗絲

Dear Parents

Any comments of this school ? I am intending to apply this G7 for my son. Just want to know more details of this school. Any parents can share their point of view?

金瑪姬

弘立書院獲授權國際文憑組織的中學項目

弘立書院於2009年11月17日收到國際文憑組織正式授權提供國際文憑組織中學項目的致函。這是國際文憑組織中學項目組於兩星期前(11月3至5日)授權探訪的結果。弘立書院現已正式加入了國際文憑社群，成為國際文憑世界學校的一員，這是弘立社群的一項顯著的成就。恭賀弘立全體家長、學生、我們的中學項目協調員及教職員、領導團隊及所有為發展本校獨特的教與學模式而努力的每一位人仕。

未來的重點將是準備於2010年2月的國際文憑大學預科項目的授權探訪。

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Pooh_Pooh

好怕同人爭拗! 所以同好多家長一樣少發言為妙...
總之, 我地都非常滿意呢間學校!!! :loveliness:

狄麗絲

It's good news to tell any parents worry about their IB authorization.  

The ISF Academy received its Letter of Authorization to offer the Middle Years Programme (MYP) from the International Baccalaureate (IBO) on November 17, 2009.  The ISF Academy now formally joins the IB community as an IB World School. Congratulations go to our parents and students, our MYP Coordinator and teaching faculty, and our leadership team, all of whom have contributed to the development of our unique teaching and learning environment

原帖由 hayleyyorkshire 於 09-11-10 19:23 發表



I trust you because i heard the same thing from one of my friend also!

tingtingting

原帖由 sabun 於 09-11-10 21:24 發表
Yes,it is a school that make me very dissapointed!
They only want to raising fund!And increase the
schoolfee!I am so lucky that I made a good decision,leave from this school!

I am confused.  Have you ever been there?

tingtingting

Those who choose to believe that the mother tongue issue never exists need only refer to Re-Authorisaton Report issued by IBO recently (under paragraph entitled "Recommendation - Standard A2").  It seems that there is finally a compromise - IBO will endorse ISF's dual language immersion program, whilst ISF is not going to officially ban the use of Cantonese.

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sabun

Yes,it is a school that make me very dissapointed!
They only want to raising fund!And increase the
schoolfee!I am so lucky that I made a good decision,leave from this school!

hayleyyorkshire

原帖由 wisekid2007 於 09-6-3 17:45 發表
I am not sending rumor about the failure of ISF in pursuing the accreditation of MYP.

All of you are so stupid and are incapable of reading the information correctly.

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Have tried to call the sch ...

I trust you because i heard the same thing from one of my friend also!

liyinfai

The "Annual Levy" this year for ISF is over $30000? really? rise  a lot.

646464

Dear 狄麗絲 and Betty,

I don't mean to let you down, but I need to share some of our first hand information with you both...

My kid is study in ISF right now. My feeling is you are paying quite a big amount of money to buy an excellent language environment for the kid to learn Oral language...Not a structural written one... Most of them can pick up beautiful ascent of speaking both English + Mandarin, but whether they are able to write equally good, I have a doubt about it...They do not have a structural method to teach the grammar, so their writing skill can be quite vary from one another, which is quite depended on their own background....

Quite a lot of good teachers are leaving (almost every years), and the best principle Ms. Shirley Lee is resigned due to her personal health problem (I really wish Shirley can overcome it... we really loved her, and she is one of the reason we still there...she is excellent!!).

I got the same impression when we got the school tour.... beautiful spoken language, innovative school works, positive feedback from student.

In fact the school got lots of excellent teachers, but quite a few of them being upset by the administration (policy change from time to time, poor communication between the teacher and the school, etc...), so they finally decided to leave... and the good teacher are getting less and less... maybe they will hire more good teachers with big money again...

Another big concern to me is the student over there.... sorry to say that quite a bit of them is quite spoiled (maybe just too many rich family are getting there...) , and they do not have the basic discipline in the school, so you will be quite surprise when you attending their assembly, and their school work can be quite a scene...

Their Chinese teaching team is relatively stable, but their English teaching team is changing a lot throughout these few years...

ISF can be a good school around 10 ~ 15 years later (if they have sharpen their direction of teaching after go through all the trial and error...), but whether your child can be benefit when you getting in now, you have to think about it carefully...

We do have a big hope few years ago, but to be honest with you, we are quite disappointed...

If you enjoy to have every birthday party to be in Aberdeen Mariner's Club (I don't know why, but it do happen like this...),  ISF for sure is your best choice...

狄麗絲

Dear Betty

For me I think Mandarin and english are very essential for their future path. 尤其普通話好的話有助中文的文法同作文，起碼打好中文基礎再向英文進發. It sounds good that they will change to Man/Eng 30/70% ratio on G7.

原帖由 AAma_Betty 於 09-6-17 11:42 發表
Dear 狄麗絲,

Many thanks for your prompt reply. I am looking for G3 and G5 for my two girls in the coming academic year, as per ISF's website, they will use Madarin as their medium of teaching langua ...

hysterical

For interesting information about ISF, pls check out this link:

http://www.geokids.hk/forum/thread555.html

狄麗絲

Dear Betty

Nice to talk to u of ISF. We had parents interview last week after 2nd stage of assessements test. We also talked with their secondary students, we were deeply impressed of their self-discipine and polite response with fluent english + mandarin. As parents, this is what we want. Coz I am pretty headache of my child homework and workload in his local primary school. I dont know which Grade u willbe applied, for G7 they will be using 30% mandarin and 70% english. We like this school very much, but still waiting their confirmation and heard will have school fee increment for the coming year.

The other parents of Ceclia's kid is studying there and she is very very nice to give me some info. Hope I can tell u somethng more if I got their confirmation

Cara2006

Funny someone said that someone else confirmed what he said.
Why should I trust that someone else too?

Mr A said that ISF failed the authorisation.
Mr B said that ISF did not fail.
Both are people we have not met, and are both using web names.
Why should we trust Mr A and not Mr B?
Because what Mr A said is what you want to believe?

daisy17772

原帖由 Pianokc 於 09-6-2 20:11 發表
..........And, with the increasing construction, and facilities, more money is needed, and therefore, higher tuition is expected. For the value one gets from the school, there are many schools that offers the same or more, but at about 30% less expensive than ISF per month

Agree.  Int'l school cost at similar price has got proven academic results.  For these newly estab. schools, one has to put their " faith" in them, but this is very neutral and personal decision.  However, we as parents should be very careful about the quality of the teachers, i.e. are we paying for the facilities or a team of high quality teachers (not just with high qualifications but with proven and experienced teaching experiences) ?  

My personal opinions only.

daisy17772

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