I've registered all of them when my daughter was 4, and all linda park, Marryaville and Magill are accepted. At the end I've choosen Marryaville for her, she's now year 1.
Linda park is new and big, many korean overseas exchange student. Magill is old and many chinese, b'cos the school teach chinese as 2nd language. Marryaville is small, old. But parents and students are good, maybe marryaville is a good and educated area, most family are polite and nice. And Marryaville is more focus on music.
You can go to 'myschool.com.au' to compare three schools.
Yes of course, she loves her school, and didn't want to miss out lot of fun time even I took her 1 hour off to see dentist. As what I said before, parents and classmate are good, she sometimes invite her classmate to our house, they are very polite.
The school has lots of excursion, you can also register your kid for musical instructment since receiption, they have private or group lesson. I've registered my girl violin this year privately, she enjoys very much, and the teacher said that she could join the band in year 3. Today she goes to bontanic garden with whole class, and next thursday is school sport day. Every year, whole class will have swimming week.
Good to know that your daughter is enjoying her school! Yeah I 've also heard from my friend that Marryaville high school has done music exceptionally well. So I guess it all starts from a young age =) hahha...Marryaville primary is definitely on my list if they take students out of their school zone.
Thank you so much!!! I have my visa granted last week and I am planning to move by end of this year.
I will be coming in May and check out primary schools. I made appointment with Marryatville, Magill, Linder Park, North Adelaide and Norwood Primary. Personally, I prefer Marryatville. This is highly recommend by my friends.
The only concern is, there is not much property for renting at Marryatville.
Congrats!!! I've heard that sometimes schools do take students out of their school zone if they don't have many students enrolled for that particular year, so that means you don't have to live in Marryaville. I'm sure you will find out alot more during your meeting at the schools Don't forget to share with us after your trip! Take care and Good luck!
How old is your kid? which year is he/she enrolled? Some of my girl's classmate is from other school zone at marryatteville, and I know some of years which has space to accept other zone student. The best way is talk to the principal and showing her that you love the school very much and push/beg her to give you a space for your kid.
Just came back from Adelaide and checked out several primary schools. Here are some comments.
Linden Park - Big modern school. Good resources. They take quite a bit of Korean.
Magill - Big school. Multi-cultural. Some of the parents are rich but some are poor. Mixed of different social status. Might have chance to take student outside of school zone.
Marryatville - Old and traditional school. A bit small. No chance of taking student outside of school zone.
North Adelaide - About same size of Marryatville. Very close to city. No chance to take student outside of school zone.
Rostrevor College - A bit old compared to St. Peters. Traditional English type of school. Lots of resources. Have supports for student who has difficulties.
St. Peters - Very expensive school. Modern and nice school. Everything is built with 'money' so everything facility is new and modern.
You have made such a big study for your dearest son! Great mom! So what's your top choice right now? And among all your choices, any of them support non-English speaking students?
Hi puib, I saw other topic which you have created. Maybe we can discuss here. No worries about the English as they can pick up very easily. Most schools support students from non-English background, so you don't have to worry too much. Most schools have students coming from 30-40 different countries.
I would suggest you to go online and check out every school that you like and then compare.
Thanks makeupstudio. I do hope my son could pick up English very soon, as he often resists English now. Sometimes I say English, he would say "Don't say English, we are in Hong Kong now. Say Chinese only!" But I believe environment can make changes.
So how do you search your favorite school? You search it from Oz online forum? Any good suggestion for websites?
Time flies. Now we are starting to pack cantons. We will move to Adelaide in early July. You are planning to move in the year end, aren't you?
All schools are recommend by my friends in Adelaide. In fact, I was there long time ago as an overseas student. I think I will choose Magill Primary School, most likely.
I am planning to move this year in Sept/Oct depending on my selling of my property here. Might be earlier. Where are you going to live then? Confirmed the place? If it is, then I guess you can confirm the school for your son as well!
Our temporary accommodation will be in Athelstone (very far away from the city, but compensated by low rental price). But in long term we are very flexible all depends on our targeted schools and rental expenses. I also think of settling down in Eastern suburb. It seems to be a self-sufficient district with good schools.
Therefore you are likely to stay at Magill, right? Could you share more about your impression on Magill Primary School? Besides your above observations, how about the teachers and students? Did they show kind and love? Did the school teach easy or difficult things? I don't know if there is 精英中學/小學 in Adelaide.
I also replied in the other topic. Sorry for many questions and thanks for your sharing.
BTW, I've just looked the school websites based on your recommendations. Some offers IB curriculum, but they are also zoned government school, that means they are free in nature, e.g. Linden Park and Magill (MYP only), is it true or did I understand something wrong?
Is Athelstone in the South? The name sounds familiar. Yes Eastern or North East suburbs are the best.
Yes Linden Park offers IB and there are quite a lot of students from Korea. I have been to the school. A descent school comparing to other public schools. I also like their IB system. But I think I prefer Magill. Most students are well behave. They are very active in discussion. Teachers are nice when the principal showed me around. They are impress with my son being able to spell words...but that is HK standard. Ha...so I think they have good impression of him. I don't know if Magill is good but it is all about impression. Marryatville is also good but no chance to get in if you are living outside the zone. They didn't even give me the enrolment form. They just put me on waiting list...
In fact, all junior primary schools are very very very free even for private school. They don't have homework at all. No need to write anything. Just drawing cards, doing pictures, enjoying themselves. If your child is really talented or gifted, you can switch to other school.
I am thinking of going into public school until year 7 and then change to private school starting from year 8. It is relatively less important for primary school as they don't do much. In order to get into University, you still need to work hard in secondary. I did Year 11 and 12 there in a public school, you still need very high marks to get into good Uni like Adelaide Uni.
I hope information can help you. Do let me know if you want to know more.
Athelstone locates at the Eastern/ North East suburbs, the town next to Paradise.
Many thanks. Your information and opinions gave me a lot of insights. It is time for me to study through the education system and schools I want. May seek your advices later.
In our case, we believe our son will study from R to 12 in public schools.
Don't forget to share with us after your trip! Take care and Good luck!
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