[HKside]

Tai Koo belongs to the HK east area.

Local Kindies, the closer and popular one will be Victoria. The other one is Kiangsu and Chekiang. Both have primary section.

Victoria's primary section will be moving to Sham Wan of Wong chuk hang in 2007. They follow the International Bacculaureate system of education, having 2 teachers in a class using both English and Mandarin. No exams just assessment all through the school years.

Kiangsu and Chekiang (KCS), is a mandarin school with half hour english in the kindie everyday. A multi-nationed kindie section. Japanese, British/Americans, Canadians, Taiwanese. The primary section, however, has less of the mixed nations. Most of them must have gone to ESF or other international schools. KCS, however, has an international section (KCIS) for Kindie, primary and secondary using the British Curr., similar to ESF. Previously, the kindies from this international section can go straight to ESF but afer the opening of its own primary section, the connection was cut.

There is only one local english primary school on HK east i.e.Salesian english school. If english is not an issue, there are a few band one local school for you to review, like North Point Government School, CCC Kei Wan Primary Sch (Aldrich Bay) and HKUGA Primary School.

The nearest International school will be Delia School of Canada but I don't think it has a kindie section. The other closer ones will be Korean Intenational Sch, KCIS (just mentioned above) and the Chinese International Sch. These 3 have Kindie sections.

See if this helps.

[melohk]

lenima,

u can check out this website for Shatin district.

http://embhsc.hkedcity.net/primary/

For local primary school, I will recommend the following,

Baptist Lui Ming Choi Primary School

Hong Kong Baptist University Affiliated School Wong Kam Fai Secondary and Primary School

C.U.H.K. F.A.A. Thomas Cheung School

Immaculate Heart Of Mary School

Ma On Shan St. Joseph's Primary School (Catholic schoo, don't know about the comment, as I prefer christian and catholic school )

S.K.H. Ma On Shan Holy Spirit Primary School

Shatin Methodist Primary School

For DSS

Alliance Primary School, Kowloon Tong
Creative Primary School
Diocesan Girls' Junior School
Good Hope School (Primary Section)
Kowloon Rhenish School
Pooi To Primary School
Sacred Heart Canossian School Private Section
Tak Nga Primary School
Victoria Shanghai Academy
Victoria English Primary School (Causeway Bay)

[mother of 2]

I live in Heng Fa Chuen and would like to send my son to a local primary, so any suggestions would be much appreciated.

[melohk]

mother of 2

I prefer this school

http://www.hkugaps.edu.hk/

[HKside]

hang fa chuen still belongs to the HK east area. Those schools that I mentioned earlier applies to you too. Of course, the closer one will be HKUGA primary school. Same school recommended by Melohk.

[butterfly]

Hi
Can anyone recommend a good local school for my son. We are looking at either Central area or New territory such as Tsing yi or Tung chung area.

Thanks so much

[mother of 2]

Thank you Melohk and HKside, HKUGA has been mentioned to me before, but I hear that it's really difficult to get in, have you heard this too?

[HKside]

you are quite right but I will absolutely go for a try if I were you. During the interview, you should also equip yourself too because as I was told, the school grades parents performances.

If not, go try KCC (Aldrich Bay) School.