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不好意思，是英文，懒得翻译了，大家凑乎看吧。
The tour was good. Eight students guided parents around the school. We went into the early learning centre, kindy and year 2 classrooms. They are very good. Students were well behaved.
Generally speaking, I like that school. Kind teachers, well behaved students, and well established facilities.
I can feel a strong Christian environment in campus. Bible chapters are on the window glass. The principal mentioned God several times during her speech, and students greeted us “good morning” followed by “ God bless you.”
For junior grades, one teacher is responsible for one class, with different teachers teaching music, PE and Mandarin.
They only had their Year 11 and 12 in 2011. So pretty young.
In terms of curriculum,
• they offer a lot of activities. Kids from kindy start learning Mandarin all through to Year 8. From year 9, they have opportunities to choose other languages to learn. One class per week, the same as other schools.
• Formal music lessons start from kindy. All students in year 3 learn to play violin or cello. Instrument provided by school. At higher grades, students have more opportunities to explore other performing arts like drama and singing. Those are within school hours. Parents can choose private tutors to learn other instruments after school hours.
• They have lots of sports as well, netball teams, mountain bike teams, and other sports training twice a week.
• Digital based learning is widely adopted as well. I saw three classrooms were studying something with laptops. The principal mentioned that Year 5 students use iPad to study, iPads provided by school.
• From Year 9, they have career classes once per week, helping students choose their career paths.
• They don’t do buddy program like Turner Primary does for lower grades. Only in college, students from different years may study together for selective subjects.
• But they have different buddy programs. Year 6 buddy up with Kindy and Year 5 with pre-school. However, what they can do together are limited in my opinion.
• For students who have difficulties in particular areas, they have teachers to help. But for top students, they don’t have programs for them.
What else? Students on the waiting list will be considered at any time after kindy intake. So if MZ isn’t enrolled in kindy, she may get a place at any time afterwards. It really depends.
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