i thought you are a local singaporean. I am not a singaporean, but i have nephews and niece brought up in singapore. So i have heard quite a lot about the education system in s'pore.
聽很多人都讚佢攪得很好???? ....actually, the system is based on what HK people are against: exam orientated, tutorials even on holidays, very stressful, classes are based on result, choose secondary school also based on P.6 public exam. They are simple, just based on P.6 public exam mark (academic), and you choose your secondary school.
So, high mark student go into the best school. Low mark go to bad school. Simple system, but it create a lot pressure to students and parents.
It used to be like that in HK, but some parents complain about that. Now government changed to 'random lucky draw', and parents complain again.
So, which method is better?
The difference between s'pore vs hk education is that one uses more english and one less. The rest? I think HK student are even more broad minded. They involve in a lot more activities other than academic.
what's your opinion?
I am not a Singaporean but my child studies in SIS Hong Kong, this school doesn't have secondary school. We plan to send our child to Singapore for further study. Now my child is studying in P3. We are thinking which year is better and which school is better and how to apply.
We like the teaching method of SIS, we think maybe SIS is more or less the same as Singapore local school as they are using the same textbooks. We child may get use to it more easily.
you have to find out if the kid has to sit for p.6 PSLE exam in HK. what i know is that singapore students choose secondary school based on their PSLE result.
I don't know much about 'private schools' in singapore. For government schools, most important is to get a place in a better school. what i know is that singapore, just like HK, has schools which is not so good with lots of gangsters.
The better schools which i've heard of are: Raffles Institution, Catholic High, River Valley, Raffles Girls, Nanyang Girls, Chinese High, Anderson....
RI is a secondary school for boys and RGS is for girls. Nanyang Primary school is a co-ed primary school whilst its secondary school becomes Nanyang Girls'.
Actually SIN government tries to change - it has added a Sports School for training of kids who excel in Sports. Similarly, thoughts of having a drama school have been discussed. This is very typical of SIN - once criticised of something, the government will try to create an instanteous solution.
It's quite funny that you are Singaporean but like local Hong Kong schools; we are Hong Kong people but like Singapore local schools. That means, no matter which school, just our children enjoy studying there is OK already. I should feel it easy to find a school for my child in Singapore.
What's your feeling about Hong Kong local schools in the eyes of a Singaporean?
It is a good example of "a man's meat being another's poison"
HK schools - main drawbacks are the use of complex chinese characters and teaching medium in chinese. Otherwise, the school standards are not lower than those in Singapore schools.
Singapore schools - advantage of having GEP classes (ie. those who passed tests for gifted program) and the students could be given very challenging projects/subjects to stretch themselves. HK schools seem to lack in this aspect (at least I don't know of).
Don't forget Singapore schools also change policies as often as that in Hong Kong. For example, students had to learn Mandarin in "Hanyu PingYin" without knowing the actualy chinese characters somtime back (6 years or so). But this only lasted for 1-2 years before the schools reverted back to the traditional way of teaching chinese characters because it just didn't work. Imagine those students when they had to catch up on learning all those chinese characters......
You should be a Hongkonger, you use a short form to call me "4y"already. So fast when facing changing: Hong Kong people. Thanks for your sharing!
Actually, we don't know much about S'local schools. We thought they are goods based on their schools size and facilities. And, my child studies in HK Singapore Int'l School, she is very happy and enjoy. It's our hope there will be 80% like S' local school. Another point, the pressure in S' is less. More spaces for children and families. Less entertainment! More stable.... I think, the only think I can imagine is too hot....
By the way, did you not know that Singaporeans are very keen on acronyms? (short forms of words/phrases)
Pressure lesser in Singapore? I don't think so if you are vying for the top schools and the top tuition centres etc. But then, pressure is inevitable for developed countries - eg. Japan, England, US.
But if your girl studies in SIS, she can definitely align her studies in the schools in Singapore when she plans to study there later on.
We have heard from many Singaporea parents that the pressure in local S'schools are very high. As you said, developed countries are inevitable. If our child studies in local HK schools, pressure are high too. The differences: creative, critical thinking are very weak for HK students but these are very important for studying in Universities and work. I hope (I don't know), S' are better.
The pressure in SIS is less as we don't need to fight for a famous secondary school, if we need to have competition for entering a famous school, I think, we parents will give a lot of pressure for our children. Pressures are from schools and parents.
Thanks for your sharing. Please let me know more about S' local schools.
Is there a secondary school now for SIS? Wouldn't it become a problem when your child finishes P6 in SIS?
SIN local schools can be more diversified in terms of curriculum and activities than HK local schools. But it also depends on which schools the children go to, eg. Sports School, La Salle Art School.
Let me know if you have any question and I can try to help.
SIS doesn't have Secondary school in Hong Kong. Graduates from P6 can choose going back to Sin for further study in Anglo-Chinese Int'l Secondary school. We,parents ask for a secondary school for many years and HK government agreed we can have our secondary in the same school of SIS but ....
SIS also has a lot of CCA, I think the same as Sin, I like it actually as more fun for students. My child joined Chinese Dance for 4 years already and they won 1st price during the completition among all Hong Kong local schools for this year and last 2 years. For the formal classes everyday, usually 2-3 lessons for English, Chinese and Maths, then science, Dance, art & craft, French, swimming. Compared to Raffles Girls my child studies last year in Sin, a little bit more lessons....(maybe I remember wrong).
I am looking for a school in Sin for my child now. If you have any suggestion, please let me know.
Primary Schools
My personal favourites are RGS, Singapore Chinese Girls' School (SCGS), Methodist Girls' School (MGS), Convent of Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ) and St Nicholas'. Mainly because these have good secondary schools to which the primary school kids can go to.
But there are many good neighbourhood schools too eg. Rosyth Primary School, Henry Park Primary School, Tao Nan Primary School, Ai Tong Primary School. And I think for past 2-3 years, the top PSLE students were from such neighbourhood schools.
If you are a Christian, some churches can provide recommendations to the christian schools in Singapore, and hopefully "jump" the queue.
Secondary Schools
The system has been changing quite a bit for secondary schools. There is the express stream students of which they take 4 years of studies and even go directly into the Junior Colleges without GCE O levels if they have good results and recommendations by the teachers.
If the child is good at music/art/sports, he/she can opt to go for schools which offer these specialty subjects. Eg. I knew someone who was admitted to the Sports School on swimming (top 10 in Singapore for age group under 15).
I am still trying to understand the new system myself. Share with you later when I grasp the system......
We are looking for primary school, mainly promoted to P4 or P5 next year.
I will bear in mind the schools your provided. I like RGS too, the 2nd is Nanyang Girl School as I have visited them last year. But I know any of the schools you recommended if accept my child will be excellent already. (later...)
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