Please read the important announcements from the management.
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by Petr Pospíšil
Last week on Wednesday 6th December we held the second meeting between the school management and parents. Please, allow me to address some of the main points covered during the meeting and in the subsequent discussions. Also there are some important decisions we have had to take as a school in order to sustain the high quality of programme and organized school development.
Firstly, I showed to parents a number of indicators we use to measure success in areas of academic, personal development and school leadership. Even though this was a rather passive presentation, it should not be regarded as an example of my personal teaching style :-).
I believe it showed some interesting patterns which can be used to judge the overall quality of education and services we provide.
Next, we looked back at some of the past year’s achievements and discussed the current year going forward. Amongst the most important I would probably like to mention here are two main developments. First, It seems that there is finally some light at the end of the tunnel regarding the relocation of the Preschool to the Sokolovska location. Happily, I believe we are now in a position to set a preliminary starting date to be 1st of February.
Secondly, it is with some sadness that I have to report that a drop in student numbers for lower secondary has meant that we will not be in a position to run the Y9/10 class in the next academic year. I hope that you can appreciate that a minimum number of students are required in order to sustain a quality program going forwards. This, however, will not affect the Y7/8 class. For the Y9/10 students who would be still interested to continue study subjects we can offer tailor made individual independent study programmes in cooperation with Wolsey Hall Oxford college.
Here is the link to the prezi presentation and in case you would like to discuss the developments in person with me, please do not hesitate and contact me directly.
Finally, following some requests of the international community of teachers and parents and taking into account the number of children going on holidays around the Christmas break I have decided to prolong the Christmas holidays three more days. I would like to make it a tradition of the school to have full two weeks off around Christmas so that children both Czech or foreign can spend more time around Christmas with their families. Therefore, the start of the II term will be Monday January 8th.
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