| tszma | 2009-01-07 22:33 |
| Hi, everybody, I am a new member. Glad to find a place for me to share and discuss with other mums. My daughter is a P.1 student in Gigamind. Last year around this moment I was worrying about choosing a suitable primary school for her. But now she is already in P.1 now. As I have said in the title, I think Gigamind is a right choice for my daughter. She loves her schooling very much. On the first day of Christmas holidays, she told me she missed school and the teachers very much. The teachers here are really nice and gentle. Although most of them are young,they are not totally fresh or unexperienced. This was one of the issues I worried before. They are every encouraging even to the low ability students. I think it's the educational belief of the school. Every month, there is an award certificate for each subject (Chinese, Eng, Maths, IS, P.E. and even Art) to the best performer in each level. Very often it is not the brightest children that get the awards. The teachers will look at the children's effort. They praise improvement and effort more than result. It is what education is for. Agreed? Sorry I have talked too much on my first visit. Share with you all later. |
| cckmami | 2009-01-07 22:57 |
| Dear Tszma, Nice to meet you! It's glad you share your feeling regarding Gigamind. I'm also a Gigamind mom with the same feeling with you. Let's share with each other in the future!!:funny: |
| tszma | 2009-01-07 23:44 |
| Hi cckmami, Nice to meet you too. Is your child in P.1 too? It's ok if you want to keep it a secret. It will not bother our discussion. I posted my feeling of Gigamind because I always find that some people (outsiders) have some misunderstanding of this school. To be frank, it was really mysterious to me in the past. I hope people can know more about this school when they read our discussion. |
| cckmami | 2009-01-09 00:11 |
| Dear Tszma, My child is in P2 now. I have asked him that if there's any lesson he doesn't like to have, he said none. Teachers are nice to him too. Yeah, would like to let others know more about this school. |
| moondream3003 | 2009-01-09 15:16 |
| 多謝你地分享. 希望將來囝囝都係一份子啦. |
| pigmei | 2009-01-09 20:33 |
| My kid is now studying in Yuen Yuen, although she like her school and the teachers there are really good. But it seems like the 課程are a little bit difficult to her, so, I consider to send her the Gigamid. Please tell me that is there any vacancy in Gigamind and is it difficult to enter the school? Thanks, Gigamind mums for sharing. |
| tszma | 2009-01-09 21:52 |
| Welcome pigmei and moondream 3003, As I know P.1 in Yuen Yuen is quite demanding this year. My friend's daughter is studying in P.1. Last week I visited her and found that she had two sets of exercises (at least 15 pages each) for both Chinese and English. Some of the English exercises are really demanding for P.1 pupils. Reading passages of about 200 words each. If a pupil can finish the exercises on his or her own, he or she is really a talented one. Pigmei, do you agree? Pupils in Gigamind don't have too much homework. Hence, they have time to think and create. Let's talk about an example. Last week they learnt about clothings (jumper, trousers, sneakers,...)and the sentence structure( I'm wearing a red jumper, black trousers,... and yellow shoes). After they have got hold of these vocab, they had to make a booklet of Clothes Diary. They were asked to record what they wore for a whole week, draw and write sentences. As I observed, most of the pupils did very nice work in both drawing and writing sentences. The reason is that they have adequate time to absorb the knowledge, internalize it and produce their own products. The products gave them a sense of belongings. Once the booklet was made, they needed to circulate them among classmates and read them to one another. The classmates then would assess one another's products. Some parents may find it unbelieavable that they spend so much time on one topic, but I completely agree to it. Little children need time to absorb knowledge, right? The syllabus should be going with them but not leading them to chase. Throughout the year, new comers are admitted if they pass the interviews. I think the class size is not full yet. However, I suggest you to think twice (or thrice) before you change the school for your kid. Discuss with your kid beforehand. |
| dlh525 | 2009-01-16 23:16 |
| Hi tszma, 你好! 我囡囡應該明年09年會入讀 p.1. 希望你可以分享多些學校資訊給我們這些未來家長. Thanks. dlh525 |
| tszma | 2009-01-17 22:50 |
| Nice to meet you, dlh525, Just feel free to ask. We would be happy to give you more information. Pupils here (especially P.1) don't have much homework to do. So they have a lot of time to read. Be honest, sometimes when I share with parents from the other schools, I am a bit uneasy and puzzled -- 'Will my daughter lag behind since the other children do so much homework and have so many dictations and tests?' Hence, I do give her some supplementary exercises (managable quantity and difficulty) in her spare time and require her to spell words and memorize Chinese characters. Since I set it as a schedule for her, it works very well. What, when and the amount of exercises you assign him/her to do depends on his/her abilities and interests so the child would find it acceptable and fun. My daughter would sometimes ask for more challenging exercises and she would tell me what kind of exercises she wants more. By the way, helping your kid to build up a good reading habit is crucial. My daughter reads a lot. Whenever she is idle at home (or even go poo-poo), she will pick a book to read. To my surprise, she has learnt many phrases, expressions and vocab unnoticed. Besides, through reading the scope of their thinking will be broadened. I realize it when she tells me her own stories. Nice to share with you. |
| dlh525 | 2009-01-19 21:44 |
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