Information for parents

We will:

• teach your child with others of a similar age and level
• use a variety of materials to help your child learn, including coursebooks, games and other challenging projects and activities
• give your child lots of opportunities to use the language they are learning by speaking with other children, and by practising a range of skills – this helps build their confidence and improves their grades at school
• use a range of different activities in each lesson – this helps children stay active and focused throughout the lesson. Different children learn in different ways – some through seeing, some through listening, some through moving around – so a variety of activities will make sure all children learn well.

We will:

• use continuous assessment (skills/participation) and mini-checks (language) to monitor your child's progress and actively encourage them to  on their own learning. At the end of each course, young learner students get an end-of-course certificate of achievement.

We’d like you to:

• talk to your child’s teacher if you have questions or concerns about your child’s progress or participation.

We will:

• give your child homework every week to support what they have done in class
• check the homework in the next lesson.

We’d like you to:

• make sure your child does their homework before their next lesson.

Our rules:

• Follow instructions.
• Listen to teachers, staff and other students.
• Let everybody contribute and take part in classroom activities.
• Keep everybody safe.

We will:

• teach children that everybody is welcome and important at the British Council
• teach children about good classroom behaviour
• speak to your child when their behaviour is disruptive and explain to them why their behaviour is a problem. If your child's behaviour does not improve, we will speak to you about this and if they continue to behave badly, we may ask you to stop sending your child to classes
• only discuss your child’s behaviour with you (not other parents).

We’d like you to:

• work with us to help your child follow these rules.