The term ESL has been updated to ELA, English Language Acquisition. These courses focus on all areas of English language development, including listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and pronunciation etc. All of the students in ELA classes are English Language Learners (ELL).
Hi Gregory, this session about the Fraser score is very inspiring. May I clarify the steps between securing school interview and renting/buying a living place ...... 1) Is it necessary to rent/buy a property in the catchment area before having the school interview? 2) After studying in the catchment school (say 1-year), is it possible to rent another flat in different catchment area?
I lived in a higher ranking school area not because of the school ranking but it was just co-incident. Actually, each school has good teachers and not as good. It is more important the school culture fits to your kid. For this September, our son has to switch from a private elementary to a public high school, we visited another high ranking high school in the next neighborhood and talked to the teachers that offered a special program thinking might fit to our son. We also talked to his home school zone teachers. After discussion with our son and considered other factors, we have decided to stay at his home zone high school. We attended the parents nights and keep communicating with our son to ensure he likes his school. We are happy for the decision.
Very informative. If possible can you elaborate a bit more on your views of private vs public schools as my relatives highly recommended us enrolling into private. FYI she lives in Richmond Hill, her boy completed double majors in UT and just got his master degree. Her family was migrated from PRC some years ago so her circle is more PRC oriented. I think you know what I mean.😉 Thanks.
Is funny that I went to Bayview Secondary School, and i started with ESL with a level C? The highest as I remember is level F? But I finished grade 12 English on time and were able to graduate to Uoft at the end. I would say the ESL teachers were fairly nice and patient. One problem with Bayview Secondary School is having too many Chinese, to be honest, I don't think high schools make a big difference on your uni, but to be fair and safe, it is a good option.
Unless you live outside GTA, schools are all having large percentage in Asian or South Asian students nowadays. I moved to Canada after form 6. School still recommended me to study a lower grade for some subjects and ESL. I did an assessment before attending the interview and did not follow their recommendations. I am glad I made that decision as I could get to University right after taking 8 courses with 2 semesters without attending night or summer schools like other students did.
Should the kids learn basic French in HK before moving to Canada? What secondary language is generally used? Any school provide Chinese language learning? Thx!
You don’t have to learn French unless you live in Quebec, when the children are grade 3,4 they will learn French as a secondary language in public school system. For private school, usually starts French since 2,3 years old. Bilingual. As for Chinese learning, Toronto public school board provides free Chinese/ Cantonese lesson once a week.
From my own experience, I don’t think learning basic French in HK is necessary unless u are going into a fresh school in Canada. There will be French classes that mandatory in high schools. In terms of what secondary languages were used, I guess it really based on what your kid’s friends and who are they gonna be with at school. And there shouldn’t be any Chinese language learning as Canada is all based English and kids should able to adopt the English learning environment, just like me🤪 I hope the upon information helps😙
Just to clarify teaching of French in York region （ Richmond Hill, Thornhill, Markham). If you child goes to a Catholic elementary school, they start teaching French in Grade 1.
If we were to look at school ranking / home price / rent ratio. I believe the catchment area of Colonel-By Secondary in Ottawa is probably one of the best value in Ontario. The school is always rank in the top 10 in the province. A single family home in the catchment area can be rent for $2500 per month. And they can still be bought for less than $600,000 even after a 15% appreciation in the last 12 months.
My cousin is coming to Canada to attend high school next year. I don't how good is his English. He only communicate with me in Cantonese when ii visit him in HK. Do you think he is good enough for English 10 or does he need esl?
Despite marks, I think many parents are concern about the bully or even drug abuse in schools. Is it inevitable or is there any tips to pick a school or an area that has minimal occurrence?
To be honest, every schools would have bad students and good students. Even the school I went, Bayview Secondary School has students taking drugs and stuff. It is important to let your kids know what is right and wrong instead of relying on schools too much
The term ESL has been updated to ELA, English Language Acquisition. These courses focus on all areas of English language development, including listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and pronunciation etc. All of the students in ELA classes are English Language Learners (ELL).
Hi Gregory, this session about the Fraser score is very inspiring.
May I clarify the steps between securing school interview and renting/buying a living place ......
1) Is it necessary to rent/buy a property in the catchment area before having the school interview?
2) After studying in the catchment school (say 1-year), is it possible to rent another flat in different catchment area?
I lived in a higher ranking school area not because of the school ranking but it was just co-incident. Actually, each school has good teachers and not as good. It is more important the school culture fits to your kid. For this September, our son has to switch from a private elementary to a public high school, we visited another high ranking high school in the next neighborhood and talked to the teachers that offered a special program thinking might fit to our son. We also talked to his home school zone teachers. After discussion with our son and considered other factors, we have decided to stay at his home zone high school. We attended the parents nights and keep communicating with our son to ensure he likes his school. We are happy for the decision.
Very informative. If possible can you elaborate a bit more on your views of private vs public schools as my relatives highly recommended us enrolling into private. FYI she lives in Richmond Hill, her boy completed double majors in UT and just got his master degree. Her family was migrated from PRC some years ago so her circle is more PRC oriented. I think you know what I mean.😉 Thanks.
施太： 我哋今年7月移民,多倫多，常聽人講小朋友好容易識聽識講英文， 小女今年快7歲讀小一， 差不多讀了三個月， 但仍未習慣講英文，在學校很少講英文，不太明白老師教學, 佢都會問吓英文點講， 發現佢用中文諗英文講法， 我知道這些方法學習英語較慢方法， 佢有時佢有點沮喪，都唔知要幾耐先講到流利英語。
我覺得先讀小一吾需要太擔心，佢重有好長嘅路要走😙我之前都係聽吾明 聽聽下當全部人都係講英文就好容易得 先幾個月，俾啲時間佢 俾啲信心佢一定會得！我之前有係加拿大揾到個英文老師補習，if needed, I can pass her contact to u
三個月就想佢會習慣？俾一年時間佢啦。小朋友願意的話可以搵人去幫，否則你會俾太大壓力佢。俾佢睇電視係一個好方法，不過要控制得好
從朋友中學習英文係最快，只有七歲好快就隨口講英文的了，只要佢有 native english的朋友就好快。我女學校只有她一人要讀 ESL, 佢英文麻麻擔心識唔到朋友，學校找了個buddy比佢，主動跟佢做 friend，平時我女D英文講得唔正，佢地會教佢，大約一年後，我見阿女D英文流俐左。
Is funny that I went to Bayview Secondary School, and i started with ESL with a level C? The highest as I remember is level F? But I finished grade 12 English on time and were able to graduate to Uoft at the end. I would say the ESL teachers were fairly nice and patient. One problem with Bayview Secondary School is having too many Chinese, to be honest, I don't think high schools make a big difference on your uni, but to be fair and safe, it is a good option.
Unless you live outside GTA, schools are all having large percentage in Asian or South Asian students nowadays.
I moved to Canada after form 6. School still recommended me to study a lower grade for some subjects and ESL. I did an assessment before attending the interview and did not follow their recommendations. I am glad I made that decision as I could get to University right after taking 8 courses with 2 semesters without attending night or summer schools like other students did.
好有興趣再了解一下學校既資訊 期待下一次既share thanks
@@homeincanada4095 thank you so much
Should the kids learn basic French in HK before moving to Canada? What secondary language is generally used? Any school provide Chinese language learning? Thx!
You don’t have to learn French unless you live in Quebec, when the children are grade 3,4 they will learn French as a secondary language in public school system. For private school, usually starts French since 2,3 years old. Bilingual. As for Chinese learning, Toronto public school board provides free Chinese/ Cantonese lesson once a week.
Thank you Mi Gu.
From my own experience, I don’t think learning basic French in HK is necessary unless u are going into a fresh school in Canada. There will be French classes that mandatory in high schools. In terms of what secondary languages were used, I guess it really based on what your kid’s friends and who are they gonna be with at school. And there shouldn’t be any Chinese language learning as Canada is all based English and kids should able to adopt the English learning environment, just like me🤪 I hope the upon information helps😙
Just to clarify teaching of French in York region （ Richmond Hill, Thornhill, Markham). If you child goes to a Catholic elementary school, they start teaching French in Grade 1.
Unless you are moving to Montreal, learning French in HK is not necessary. In Toronto there are lots of schools offering Chinese language learning.
If we were to look at school ranking / home price / rent ratio. I believe the catchment area of Colonel-By Secondary in Ottawa is probably one of the best value in Ontario. The school is always rank in the top 10 in the province. A single family home in the catchment area can be rent for $2500 per month. And they can still be bought for less than $600,000 even after a 15% appreciation in the last 12 months.
just stick around richmond hill, markham and thornhill area. downtown and midtown toronto high schools are too liberal.
我想問下如果仔仔係SEN學生，去到多倫多既小學有冇special support ?
My cousin is coming to Canada to attend high school next year. I don't how good is his English. He only communicate with me in Cantonese when ii visit him in HK. Do you think he is good enough for English 10 or does he need esl?
施太妳好，我有個問題想請教妳，我女今年15歲，係香港準備升F4，佢本身係加拿大公民（因為我先生是加拿大公民），我計畫明年五月帶佢過去多倫多讀書，請問我要如何申請佢入中學？或者有什麼網站可以查詢到呢些資料？因為我上加拿大領事館網站都查詢唔到😓🙏
好感謝你們拍咁多片，可以給我了解多d去加拿大需要做什麼的準備，祝福你們生活愉快，謝謝
另外請問若孩子讀書成績不太好，加拿大是否有類似英國的提供給16歲學生的工業專修課程/學院/文憑課程進修，將來可以銜接大學？🙏🏻🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
我都同意選擇一啲唔會太多華人集中嘅學校，希望學校裡面唔同嘅人會多一啲。
It is better not solely relying on the rankings. The ranks change every year.
HI 請問安省有沒有基督教 小學, 中學? 是否只有天主教?
施先生施太太，我兒子想2022年9月能到多倫多讀書，他2007年9月出生，請問是否能報讀公校的中三Grade 9?另外，請問你有沒有好的留學公司可以介紹？煩請協助。
thanks for sharing.
Can say some private school?
Despite marks, I think many parents are concern about the bully or even drug abuse in schools. Is it inevitable or is there any tips to pick a school or an area that has minimal occurrence?
To be honest, every schools would have bad students and good students. Even the school I went, Bayview Secondary School has students taking drugs and stuff. It is important to let your kids know what is right and wrong instead of relying on schools too much
施生～施太！ 講得好好好有趣味
咁就好啦😆
👍👍👍
您好，如果孩子在加拿大出生取得加拿大護照後至香港生活，今年17歲，未曾返過加拿大，父母沒有加拿大國籍，只持香港特區護照，未曾交加國稅項。
請問孩子18歲後返回加拿大讀書，是否需要繳交海外學生費用？還是local 費用，有沒有特別需要注意事項？請賜教🙇🏻♀️🙏🏻🙇🏻♀️🙏🏻
施太，可分享如何幫助移民小朋友提升英文水平?
小朋友(已9歲)移民後，有被同學排擠，惨惨豬😪😪
可能小朋友去翻啲多少少中國人嘅學校？參加多啲課餘活動？
I found ESL really useless. I was there in grade 5 and 6, and I also found it the same as your wife. I perfected my English with private tutors
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I am
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三房真好可以三代同堂
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