St cat, Victoria(HMT), 邊間好？

DYJY

請問St cat, Victoria(HMT), 邊間好？
謝謝！

alunsweeney

HARBOR Green - trial CLASS

3個小朋友入去課室 + 我們3個家長。
班房有一個net (habour green的net全是中國人)。她在說故事，學生(大約有8、9個)在地上坐。說完故事後做泥膠公仔，沒有什麼assistant，期間有個中國assistant來用廣東話問小朋友有什麼幫手。做完泥膠後老師比了個袋我們入起個泥膠。

trial class大約20分鐘之後校長入來說用廣東話說trial class完了!!!!

DYJY

beetoy,
How about your trial class?
Can you share with us? thank you.

mat媽

原帖由 Perrymami 於 09-1-13 16:30 發表
我係HMT, 明天下午是ORIENTATION DAY

我仔仔係 hmt讀 k1 am, 昨晚話有 bb 探佢, 我估係 o day 啦 佢話自己係哥哥

DYJY

The auntie, whose daughter has studied in St cat 30+ years ago, now the daughters' son has also studied in St cat, and has got good result in performance and eng language.

Anyway, I has not only consider  the Eng language in two school, but also child personal development...

Except the eng language, how about their comparison in other aspects, eg: is it easily to pick-up study in P1, and, active learning, personality....etc.

beetoy

Thanks DYJY.
It just seems that Victoria will give more personal attention and time to individual kids, while St. Cat will be like a big factory treating every kid equally. It is a matter of resources, and believe is reflected on the difference of tuition fee!
DYJY - which auntie promotes St. Cat?

DYJY

I have called St. cat, they replied:
(1) before admission, no any visit provided
(2) K1- 雙班主任，1 Eng teacher + 1 Chi teacher
(3) K2,K3, - 單班主任-1 Chi teacher + 1assistance, the eng teacher only teach eng, 佔 50% time, and start to writing in K2

For victoria (HMT),
(1) you can book the visit, required 2-3 mths to wait, I have a visit on Dec 08.
(2) K1-K3, 雙班主任--1中1英+1assistant
for 18-24 students, the ratio is quite good.

beetoy

today's trial class is very useful for me to understand how a typical school day is like. i think what a lot of schools lack is transparency by letting parents sit in the classes. Transparency really gives parents a lot of assurance.
i wish st. cat also have similar arrangements.

cathyliym

My husband went to the orientation with my son at Belcher's campus this afternoon. There were two main things to do. One was observation. The other thing was allowing my son to experience having a part of a lesson.

He said that there were 3 teachers handling a class. One is a NET, one is a local teacher and the other one is a Mandarin teacher. The students were divided into 3 groups and each teacher was taking care of a group. Each group was doing different activities. For example, the NET was having snacks with one group, the Mandarin teacher was doing activity with one group at the reading corner. This part was for observation only.

Before the observation, the four students joining the orientation were grouped in a class. They had a chance to participate in the activity that the class was doing. The class was learning about 'lion dance' with the local teacher. My son was asked to try playing with the cymbals.

alunsweeney

o day 是星期一因此要請半天假....

alunsweeney

去完後再給我們分享，好不好

Perrymami

我係HMT, 明天下午是ORIENTATION DAY

alunsweeney

我未去orientation day因為harbour green在下星期一才舉行。我個仔被維記收了下午班，我自己都1516，因為學費真是很貴，貴過我讀大學。不過很多過氣的victoria都好滿意呢間學校，我同事說他個仔中/英文都好好。沒有一點香港音等。個仔行出來又有自信。我個朋友說此校的老師不會常常流失，全部人經驗老到，又有系統，總之好好啦!!!我自己聽到都有小小動搖，結果都去報了名。

學費貴不說，最大問題是小學，因為我地沒有想過去維小。我想這都是各大家長1516的原因。有沒有家長可分享下他們的仔/女在維幼讀書的感受?

ps 我去個website看過，他們西人老師好像不多，是可真是班一西人，班人國語人?希望下星期一去學校orientation day可以知道更多啦

DYJY

orientation day? which KG?

Beetoy, 有位Auntie勁推介st cat.(她的女及孫都曾讀此KG)

[ 本帖最後由 DYJY 於 09-1-13 14:18 編輯 ]

Perrymami

我都好hesitate唔知比唔比個仔讀victoria, 語文我唔担心, 我只係concern victoria的程度唔知可唔可以銜接local小學.

有無人明天會去orientation day?

ericby

Victoria is good at english

cecilau

old girl 都係得20分. 如果有宗教分先有25分呀.

原帖由 beetoy 於 09-1-12 17:57 發表
DYJY,

I am in the same situation, being accepted by both St. Cat and Victoria HMT for K1 coming Sept. I have registered for both and meantime thinking which one to go to.

My husband likes Victoria b ...

cecilau

old boy 都係得20分. 如果有埋宗教分, 咁先有25分呀. 25分就多數都入到.

原帖由 DYJY 於 09-1-12 17:31 發表
Daddy 是喇沙 old boy, 有25分，入到的機會較大！  

我會報英普班，我自己會講普通話，在家亦會同他講！

如果兩間都報英普，邊間較好？及升上小學較易 "衙" 接到？ ...

beetoy

DYJY,

I am in the same situation, being accepted by both St. Cat and Victoria HMT for K1 coming Sept. I have registered for both and meantime thinking which one to go to.

My husband likes Victoria because of the lower teacher/student ratio and also the teaching methodology (teaching them projects and asking questions rather than spoon feeding). For me, St. Cat is so popular and traditional, most public/HK-stream schools are ok so it is a safe choice.

In terms of primary school placement, St. Cat is not so transparent, while we can see that quite a few from last year's Victoria graduate has done to DGS.

Still pondering...! BTW I am old girl of Maryknoll so think should be ok to get a place in Maryknoll anyway? Not too sure about how many marks I will get though... is is 25 then?

DYJY

Daddy 是喇沙 old boy, 有25分，入到的機會較大！  

我會報英普班，我自己會講普通話，在家亦會同他講！

如果兩間都報英普，邊間較好？及升上小學較易 "衙" 接到？