Hauwa’u Memorial International School

We have commenced our third term for the academic year 2015/2016 and are super excited about our upcoming session.

Our emphasis this year has been to get the parents more involved. Children will be able to reach their full potential when their families take interest and support them. Getting involved in your child’s education has a significant effect and continues to do so into adolescence and adulthood. It gives them confidence, increased motivation and stability which in turn helps them achieve their full potential. Unfortunately, most of the parents do not know how to help their children with their education as they themselves have not been to school and are not literate. With guidance and support from the school they have become increasingly involved. Their support has helped school authorities by ensuring children do their homework on time.

HAMI currently has 60 students and by September we should have 80! As we grow it’s important we have an effective way of ensuring all new students and parents integrate successfully and happily to our school rules and regulations. We outline our expectations from the parents and regularly communicate about what the children are learning. This year we started having interactive sessions with parents at the beginning of the term. We use this forum to go through the scheme of work for the term and briefly discuss the topics, this enables the parents to have a better understanding of what their child will be learning. Also, the school encourages parents to talk staff members and ask about pupils progress through well planned parent teacher conferences and open day.

When parents are actively involved in school activities their children perform better in school. Vice versa when schools encourage families in ways that improve learning and support parent involvement at home and school, students make greater gains. Here at HAMI School we try to build partnerships with families so as to have healthy, happy students. Students that will achieve their dreams and grow up to build a strong communities.

Investing in the education is paramount to the development of our country. At HAMI we aim to be a school where young people enjoy learning, achieve highly and enter into the adult world with confidence.