harrow international school Hong Kong

flextone

借問你小朋友讀咩班？

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我只系比每年額外5萬

flextone

Thx!

可以分享一下有什麼特別原因選這IS?

FattyDaddy

24112006 發表於 14-1-15 18:35
唔食菜唔加分等 ...

Wahahaha, is this for real? Sounds so Draconian!

I studied in a UK boarding school before (no not Harrow, but they aren't all that different), and I've never heard of anyone penalized for not eating their vegetables

bigbighei

原帖由 oneonemama 於 13-12-17 發表
好多人話呢間大多數收嘅係mainland
我擔心英文會唔夠好

都真係幾多！

flextone

原帖由 bigbighei 於 14-01-16 發表
都真係幾多！

其實係有幾多？有無數字參考下？

clubmed

據聞係8成幾都是强國人。

YauMum

A lot of 發表人commented a lot of 强國人 at Harrow, I wonder where they got the info, please advise.

Well, Chinese faces and speaking Putonghua do not mean they are 强國人.

shadeslayer

YauMum 發表於 14-1-17 13:29
A lot of 發表人commented a lot of 强國人 at Harrow, I wonder where they got the info, please advise. ...

Taiwanese and Singaporean cannot be that many, right?

hkparent

原帖由 shadeslayer 於 14-01-17 發表
Taiwanese and Singaporean cannot be that many, right?

My friend told me there are many HK students in the secondary section who are transferred from local schools such as DGS, DBS and St. Paul and who are boarding students. In the primary section where their kid studies, many are children of expatriates and teachers. There are some children from Mainland but many of them are born overseas.

thvicny

Guiding Principles

There are a number of important guiding principles that influence the admissions procedures:

1.     The Education Bureau stipulates that:
- No more than 50% of places can be given to local pupils with Hong Kong passports only.
- At least 50% of all pupils from Year 6 and above must be boarders (weekly or full).

2.     Applications from pupils from Mainland China, Macau and Taiwan can only be considered if:
- The parents have Hong Kong residency and the necessary supporting documentation. Such students are then deemed to be local Hong Kong students.
- The student holds an additional overseas passport eligible for entry to Hong Kong.

3.     English is the only inclusive language of the School and applicants must be proficient in it in order to access the full range of the curriculum and to be able to contribute positively to the School community.

4.     The House structure in the Upper School means there must be a balance between boarders and day pupils, as well as boys and girls in each year group: this has consequences on admissions in the Lower School and the availability of places at any one time in a particular year group.

shadeslayer

English is the only inclusive language of the School and applicants must be proficient in it in order to access the full range of the curriculum and to be able to contribute positively to the School community.

xxxx

Have you watched one of the RTHK program earlier interviewing a University Lecturer and her two kids admitted to Harrow.  Harrow's definition of proficiency may be different from mine.

hkparent

原帖由 shadeslayer 於 14-01-17 發表
English is the only inclusive language of the School and applicants must be proficient in it in orde ...

Poor kid. He has been quoted by Shadeslayer for many many times in this forum. I hope he or his parents are not reading this forum - always being finger pointed and blamed for having inadequate oral English. I hope parents here say more positive words and encourage one another.

shadeslayer

原帖由 hkparent 於 14-01-17 發表
Poor kid. He has been quoted by Shadeslayer for many many times in this forum. I hope he or his pare ...

I did not blame them. They are not worse than any typical HK people. Their English is is even good if they are studying in a typical HK school. My finger is pointed to Harrow's alleged high requirement of English as an admission policy. It is either a problem of my understanding of proficient English, or the school does not stay true to who they say they will admit.

hkparent

原帖由 shadeslayer 於 14-01-18 發表
I did not blame them. They are not worse than any typical HK people. Their English is is even good i ...

I don't believe if you are Li's grandchild or child of Ivy League parents they won't admit you. The world is not perfect and we cannot say everything is fair.

flextone

3. English is the only inclusive language of the School and applicants must be proficient in it in order to access the full range of the curriculum and to be able to contribute positively to the School community.

就個人理解，佢話 "proficient in it", 係有解釋 ＂in order to access the full range of the curriculum and to be able to contribute positively to the School community."
簡單d講即係同人溝通到，聽得到老師敎學就足夠！個兩個細路有咁㗎英文水準就足夠入學！ 要求講得好好 or 係native speaker? 我覺唔需要！你可以話佢地講得無想像咁好！

如果唔係，人地應該會話" proficient in speaking it as native speaker."

YauMum

If my memory is right the younger one was required to improve his English and took the second entrance test after a few months time.  He then got the place.

The program did not mention the rest of the test result.  It is not fair to comment his English standard on one aspect (spoken) only

In fact, he is in junior form, he still have a lot of time to improve his spoken English.

Please give him a break, a chance, he is still young, he still has time to improve on all aspects.

hkparent

原帖由 flextone 於 14-01-18 發表
3. English is the only inclusive language of the School and applicants must be proficient in it in o ...

On a side issue, many local school students are admitted to top UK boarding schools but I think not many of them can speak native or near native English. But they can survive in that English environment as they can understand lectures and communicate with others. Unfortunately, it's too late for them to pick up any native English as they have learned the HK style English all along. Anyway, they usually produce good public exam results for the schools. I have seen many of these students.

shadeslayer

There is a huge gap between the two kids and native. I never say proficient is native.

Spoken English in lower forms is arguably more important than say writing and reading.

I have said before I did not mean they cannot improve. I mean I do not share Harrow's interpretation of proficiency. This and only this meaning. Anything else is your imagination.  I think my expectation is reasonable given Harrow's standing as a prestigious school.