End of Year notes Part 2

Dear Parents
(End of Year Letter #2)
This last week of our academic year is one in which we start thinking about the next school year. There are a couple of organisational changes you will notice on your return.

Merging of the two divisions
This year the junior school had two distinct divisions – Early Years and Primary, next year with a change of name to ‘Primary’, the primary team will cover children from Nursery to Grade 5. The pedagogical leadership team for the primary school will be Mr Tony (Head of Primary), Ms Veena (Deputy Head of Division and PYP Coordinator) and Ms Vimi (PYP Coordinator).

8-day cycle
This year the school ran a 6-day cycle/week. Next year we will run an 8-day cycle/week across the whole school.

Collaboration
This year we have continued to focus on the collaborative model of teaching and next year we will extend this, taking it to the next step. This will see teachers collaborating together with the children; teaching in a number of spaces, grouping the children in a flexible way to better meet the individual needs of the children, and teachers working across classes in order to provide a variety of learning experiences for your child. The reality for you as parents will not be too different. You will still have a contact homeroom teacher to talk with as you do this year, one who knows your child well and who is responsible for their well-being. For the children they will find a teaching and learning programme better suited to their needs, a number of teachers responsible for the children’s learning and they will continue to be grouped in large groups, small groups and will sometimes, like they do now, work one on one as required.
Towards the end of August we have open mornings for parents to see our classrooms in action.

Staff Farewells
Tonight, as a staff we celebrate the year that was and look forward to our summer break. We will also farewell our staff who are leaving our school this year. Ten of our staff across Nursery – Grade 5 will not continue in our Garden City Campus, they will transfer to the JVLR campus to join the new team at the new campus.
I am pleased to let you know that for next year we have a full complement of teachers and that our recruiting for this campus is now complete. I will introduce our new faculty to the parent community in the new academic year.

Details of the first couple of days
Whilst the faculty will be back at work in readiness for our 2017/2018 academic year on August 01, we welcome our children back to school on
Monday August 07, 2017.

 A change of contact email address
Next year the primary division will have two secretaries, Ms Perpetual and Ms Violet. They can be contacted through a common email address – primary.secretary@oberoi-is.org

If you are requesting a leave for your child please email -
primary.absence@oberoi-is.org

Please watch out for other announcements which will come from the school prior to the start of the academic year such as bus details and school uniform distribution.

​To those of you leaving Oberoi International School on Thursday, I wish you well for the new opportunities you have ahead of you and to those returning safe travels if your are spending time away from Mumbai, and I look forward to welcoming you and your children back in August.
Kindest regards
Tony​