INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

 

OPEN HOUSE  2008

 

 

International School held its Open House 2008 for the parents of its students on two consecutive Thursday evenings in October. Miss Balbina Munoz, technical director of the school, opened the evening, offering a warm welcome to attendees. She stressed the staff’s mission to work with students and their families to achieve the most effective educational experience with the cooperation of all partners. In this vein, she urged parents to turn to the staff for any issue, concern, or need that might arise during the school year. The school’s academic director, Miss Yvonne Leonard, echoed this message, visualizing the coordinated effort as a triangle, where the student is at the top and the parents and teachers work together in tandem to form a sturdy, secure base for the child. 

In this effort, the school staff offered suggestions to maximize the child’s experience and education at school. These points included stressing limits and responsibilities both at school and at home, teaching them to win and to lose, inculcating a love of reading by doing so out loud together at home and also encouraging it as a solitary activity, maintaining a healthy and varied diet, getting enough sleep at night, eating a proper breakfast before leaving the house in the morning, motivating the child, and being involved in school and its activities/events. 

After speeches, the teachers were presented, and then parents went off to respective classrooms to learn in detail about their child’s daily academic routine under their teachers’ guidance. After about an hour with the teachers, parents gathered with staff to enjoy snacks and coffee while taking advantage to ask further questions to teachers and catch up with fellow parents.

 

 

 

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