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Originally Posted by maya  Hi, My children are mixed and they spoke English only before 3 yrs old. I sent them to a local kindergarten, HK baptist University kindergarten in Kowloon Tong. They learn Cantonese in 3-4 months. Now my 5.5 years old boy starts recognising the characters and writing too. I know there are 2-3 students are non chinese speakers. the school usually gives a lot of help to those non chinese speaking parents as well.
there are a few primary schools that you can consider.
Kiangsu &chekiang Primary school (international Section) http://kcis.kcs.edu.hk/home.htm
Yew Chung International School http://www.ycef.com/
Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School (in Sham Shui Po) http://www2.hkedcity.net/sch_files/a...b/public_html/
their parents site http://cky.eduhk.net/~cky/pn714/html...display&pid=12
Logos Academy (in TKO) http://www.logosacademy.org.hk/
these school are bilingual. Real bilingual. children are able to speak both language well, not like the other local schools. the first two i mentioned here have lots of experience with Western and mixed parents and i'm sure they will assist those non chinese speaking parents.
The last two are quite new schools. 99.5 % are locals. PLK Choi uses English for most lessons , since children are locals they speak cantonese between them outside classes. They have Chinese lessons (in mandarin ) this school still has more chinese lessons than most international schools. All these schools are not those stiff ones that your child have to memorize the whole book for three exams a year and dictation 3 times a week plus mountains of homework plus heavy school bag. No, none of these. they don;t use govt curriculum so they can follow the children's development better than the subsudy ones.
When the school is dealing your children chinese language, then you just need to concentrate on the English side more. one parent (adult) one language so they don't speak half half of everything. when adding a new language to them it does slow down the other one a bit (this happens when they learn both at young age) As long as you are aware of that and help them by reading lots of books to them to balance out . chinese is quite complicated to learn as you may know spoken Cantonese is different from written Chinese. so you will be dealing three languages here. Stick with Mandarin is a lot easier for english speakers. |
The annual school fee of Yew Chung (Intl school) is over HKD 120,000.
And PLK CKY (local school with English + Mardarin as teaching medium) is around HKD 46,000. Primary school from Y1-5. Secondary school from Y6-10. Y11-12 is IB.
Not sure if the CKY students can be enrolled into local universities?