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T H E E N G L I S H N A T I O N A L P R O G R A M M E
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Please contact us if your child will not be attending a Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon session. This helps us to maintain an accurate attendance register. You must also inform us about any exceptional problems involving lateness in dropping off or picking your child up.
Email is our preferred means of routine communication. Please ensure that you place your main email address on your ALA-ELP enrolment form, and that you keep us informed of any change of address.
For curriculum-related issues, contact Ms Moriarty at: primary@enpferney.org
For all other issues, including absences, contact Mrs. Howen at: secretary@enpferney.org
If your mail concerns a particular teacher or is destined to that teacher, please make this clear, so that it can be forwarded as necessary.
You will receive a written report on your child’s work and progress once a year, at the end of the school year in June.
Remember that staff have a supervisory role when waiting with their classes at the end of the afternoon: please understand that this is not an ideal time to discuss details of your child’s work or other matters.
It is your right to ask to see (or talk to by telephone if this is enough) your child’s teacher at any moment in the year. Please use email, or telephone to request an appointment.
You may also ask to speak to the Head of Programme or make an appointment to see him.
In the same way, if there is any problem affecting your child or his or her work, we will contact you by email or telephone, and, if necessary, make an appointment to meet. We will act as promptly as possible when we feel that our expectations about work in class, homework, behaviour or attendance are not being met.
We appreciate your comments, feedback and suggestions on all aspects of the primary Programme, since we believe that we can improve our service by listening to you. Please write to
the Head of Programme, using the above email address, addressing
your mail to
secretary@enpferney.org .
Although we hope that the information contained in the Primary Brochure is useful, we know that it cannot replace contact between parents and teachers. Because of this, we organise an annual parents’ evening early in the year, normally in the first part of October. You will be invited to spend about 45 minutes with your child’s teacher in his or her classroom. The teacher will present the curriculum for the year, and explain the organisation of the Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon sessions, homework and other important matters. There will then be time for your questions. At an informal aperitif after the meeting, you will be able to meet other staff, members of the parents’ association, and, of course, other parents.
The meetings normally start at 6:00pm. Full details are sent by email about two weeks in advance of the meeting, and the date is posted on the Important Dates and Events page on the website. This is always a pleasant as well as a useful occasion, and attendance levels are high.
An individual parent-teacher meeting is organised in late January. An appointment is given, and there is a chance to see your child's class-work before talking to the teacher. All appointments are made by email. Again, details are placed on the Important Dates page of the website.