KCBK interview

alunsweeney

我收到信去面試，競爭一定很大，大家有沒有什麼準備?

interview約20分鐘，2星期後學校會發信通知大家。

$2,200 x 10個月，school bus $1000一個月。snack time由家長自己準備，學校會派水比小朋友。我只知以上東西!!!沒有mandarin class，全英文!

That's all I know and that's all I can share with you.

alunsweeney

kowloon International Baptist Kindergarten

Next to the Batptist University, Kowloon Tong.


Hope this will help you out! How much is Anfield, why do you think this is good for your kid?

alunsweeney

我都聽過很多人說如果有verbal acceptance的話，校方收的機會很大。

不過，他們如果控制收生人數呢?比方說，我認為這名小朋友ok，比了verbal acceptance。點知明天來的小朋友更好，那麼學校要點做!???

alunsweeney

kbck 的老師是西人嗎? 很多本所國際幼稚園的老師(net)都不是西人，但收得很貴。

其實有得學mandarin都是好事。但怕小朋友太早會confuse!此外kbck的school bus service很有限制，
不是區區都可安排。小朋友讀書的地方越近越方便，此是無可厚非的。

alunsweeney

對不起，one more questions

1) 在interview的時候，老師會問家長問題嗎?

2) 你的小朋友可以用全eng回答他們嗎?

3) 你現在有沒有帶小朋友去學中文?

4) 學校的紀律很自由嗎?

alunsweeney

matthewdad

Thanks for your answers indeed. You must be very proud of your kid!!!

May I know how did you train up your kid to speak such fluent English to win the interview?

Alun Sweeney

alunsweeney

yes, your are right, the route of school bus is very limited. As long as you get the acceptance, you have to liasize with the school bus company and to request for a route asap.

Mill Travel Company - Miss Chan 9552 0638

Good Luck!!!

alunsweeney

matthewdad

Thanks for your concern indeed. My son's interview will be held on 19 Feb (Tuesday) and I will take one-day off to attend it. Hope I will share a piece of good news fwith you.

My son was attending pre-nursery class in YMCA Int'l kindergarten for four months before but now I withdrew. I immediately enrolled two extra-curriculum ie. phonics + mini sports for him. Two courses are conducted in English. He attended the first phonics this afternoon and he enjoyed so much

alunsweeney

yes, he studied on the 2/F and he was sick in early days and my husband and I consented to quit. Therefore I wrote the letter of withdrawal to the school.

My son was getting well and my husband wanted him to go back to school but his place was occupied by a new student!

Most teachers in YMCA are Indian/Chinese and they will provide 15-30 minutes in Mandarin class but there will be no Mandarin class in KBCK

YMCA school fee is much more expensive than KBCK too.

alunsweeney

have you heard any bad things about the discipline? I only met one boy in my club house, his english is fluent with some Cantonese accent. I asked him where is his school and he replied to me "KBCK"

As far as my memory, he was terribly active and climbed up and down on the slides and jumped from the slide top. Some of the parents in the club house warned him many times but he refused to listen to others!

May be he is the exceptional case....

alunsweeney

Miss Ng

Thanks for your reply. I remembered that I read this thread in the bK before. Is your child studying in KBCK now? If yes, how do you discipline your kid after school?

I am a working mother and this is always not enough time to teach him after work though I don't have to work too late.

alunsweeney

pls check pm!

alunsweeney

We got the rejection letter and the reason was that their education program does not meet the needs of our child at this time but he will be placed on the waiting place if we like his name registered on their waiting list.

Below is the simple calcuation for the annual rate of each school.

Luckily, we still have 4 choices
1) Victoria - $54,000/year (school fee will be increased in Sept again) - p.m class

2) York – $53,300/year - a.m. class

3) YMCA Int’l Kindergarten - $55,800/year - am class

4) A localized kindergarten in Kowloon Tong with subsidiary from the government - $26,660/year – 20 minutes English class per day

School fees are very expensive nowadays, we have to fasten our waistbelt in the future!

alunsweeney

我同意duboy的說法，大家都明白is的學習環境是自由，在自由的環保下，老師都要教導小朋友什麼是紀律。

kbck曾經是我們的dream school，因為是英文學校，學費又平，但去了學校interview後，我便打了退堂鼓。因為學校太混亂，根本不是在上堂。

我曾經去過青衣的esf幼稚園、ymca國際幼稚園及esf的小學參觀，他們都是很自由，但絕不會見到地下全是玩具，小朋友打架老師不理會，小朋友做什麼都不是問題似的。

可能有些人說我食不到的提子是酸的，但我沒有因為kbck沒有收我的孩子而不開心。我希望孩子在上課時有點紀律及不是什麼都是隨心而行。