Research shows that children who are involved in quality early childhood education benefit in many ways, and that these benefits also extend to their family and the wider community. Growing young children’s love of learning can be shared and enjoyed by parents, family, and communities. Parents play an important role in supporting their young children's learning. Mothers can help by sharing with the teachers/educators what they have noticed about their daughters doing at home, including reading, writing and mathematics with your child.
Al-Arqam Academy believes in partnership with parents to support our school mission; to provide a balanced learning experience for our students, that links their learning with real life and develops a positive sense of themselves.
Ways of communication with parents:
Communication with home
Parents of KG students can communicate with teachers and other staff in the KG through a variety of means:
- Teams: Each student has a Teams account that is used for regular communication between home and school to post the weekly parents’ guidelines, which includes the weekly objectives and assignments. Teachers post the news, school letters, students’ pictures while performing activities to keep the parents well informed about their daughters’ lives in the kindergarten.
- K12(Al-Arqam Academy Portal): Each student in KG has an account on K12 to contact the parents for any administrative issues. Parents are encouraged to use their daughters accounts to communicate with teachers and admin staff. If there is any questions about the students’ accounts, the IT staff will be happy to help in any way.
- Phone: The KG has two dedicated landlines in addition to the hotlines assigned for our use for emergencies. The hotlines are for messages only and will not be answered in order to keep the line open at all times. If you have an urgent issue and the landlines are busy you can message, and we will respond to you as soon as possible. These numbers are listed in “Contact Us” Please note that phone messages will be given to teachers at the end of the day for them to respond to. If there is an emergency or urgent issue administrative staff will go directly to the class to do what is required. Teachers are asked not to accept phone calls during teaching times.
- Social media: Al Arqam Academy has a Facebook, Instagram, and X account, which we encourage you to follow. Our staff makes regular updates to these pages, and this is a quick and easy way for you to be notified of events or news from the school.
Lectures and Workshops for mothers
During the school year Al Arqam Academy arranges special lectures and workshops for mothers to enhance awareness about early childhood education and other topics that foster the vision and mission of the academy as well as lectures based on topics that mothers have requested. We encourage you to attend whenever possible.
Mummy in my Kindy Program:
A program that takes place every Thursday and allows one mother to attend the class for an hour to perform an activity with her daughter and her classmates.
Mother Interactive Days:
A program that gives the mothers a good chance to attend their daughters’ classes to observe their performance and engage with them in their class activities.
Reports
Report cards are distributed at the end of each term. The report cards are designed to reflect the progress of your child.
Parent meetings are held after the distribution of report cards to allow for brief discussion of what the report means and how parents can help their children.
How parents can help their children
- By taking an interest in what they are doing in school, for example asking them about their learning and about what happened in school that day.
- By supporting them in doing their homework, for example by providing a place and time for them to do it, and resources such as books as well as access to a computer with an internet connection.
- By attending all Parent-Teacher meetings at school.
- By making sure they eat a good diet (in particular that they eat a healthy breakfast before coming to school) and get a good night’s sleep.
- By encouraging 100% attendance.
- By attending school and class assemblies and activities.