1. Parents are concerned about the poor air quality in school.

2. ASA are not very productive lessons. Students are wasting time.

3. Safety and security of students is questionable. The infrastructure of the school is very poor

Grade 5 parents feel good and positive. Their major focus is on the exhibition unit this time. They wanted to know if students are going to prepare something in Albanian as well just like in the previous years in order to present the learning in other languages, not just English.

Some parents mentioned difficulty keeping up with the back to back meeting times and expressed a preference for having meetings across 2 days like in the Fall.

Parents generally seemed content with the teaching and learning process.

There were some parents who felt their children deserved better grading as they had it last academic year.

The expectations and criteria had to be clearly explained to the parents.

The issue of safety of children outside the classroom was raised by some parents.

Parents believe the reports echo what they know to be the true abilities of their students. They found them to be accurate. Parents are happy to work with the students and believe that the students will continue to grow from strength to strength.

Issue: booking the time slot within the day of PTC through the reception instead of bringing it to the HR teacher.

Solution: to lock the form the night before the PTC and contacting directly HR teacher via email if the change of time/date is required.

From established long staying families and parents:

1. Happy with the progress and learning engagements in class. They feel the reports and teacher's assessments/comments match and reflect their child's abilities and personality.

2. Discussions focused more about asking help on extension activities; curricular and extra curricular, international academic contests, college counseling and other interesting resources.

   
   

From Albanian parents who transferred from the British School:

1. Happy with academic engagements but worried about the disruptions in the classes and non-reporting of issues (esp if they happened during specialist classes). I needed to; unpack the many nuances of the circumstance, clarify misconceptions, and update them on recent solutions but somehow still skeptical of management's unclear explanation why the situation was not controlled from prior years and staffing resources were not allocated earlier in the year. They however confirmed their ongoing support for me, and hopeful about forthcoming improvements.

2. Commented about the few good quality book collection at the library (asking us to host regular book fairs), high number of EAL students in one class, lack of good air conditioning (heating, cooling and dehumidifier), lack of learning resources and intimidating interactions with MYP students.

From other new international parents:

1. They feel lost with Managebac and the PYP - maybe year-round MB and PYP parent workshops should be hosted ?

From me:

I think we need to have ongoing Service Learning engagements, DEIJ and Mental Health awareness campaigns to educate (parents and students) and create a more compassionate school culture. This is a timely undertaking when schools and organisations across the world are designing their DEIJ and wellbeing frameworks and commitments.

Parents were very happy with their child's progress and growth. They liked the accurate description of report cards. None of them had any problems or concerns. Everybody came happy and left happy.

Parents were pleased with their child's progress. They were given evidence of child's classwork like tests, paper classwork on grammar, etc., so they could see what they are doing during Albanian classes. They were satisfied and asked for more evidence like these. They didn't express any concern, except having more Albanian Books in the library.

Parents are pleased with their child's progress and have shared that their child is happy in the classroom and excited to come to school.

Some parents needed clarification on the difference between "Secure" and "Extending" and were reassured that their children are successfully meeting the learning objectives.