There has been the first set of conferences of the Parent/Teachers Association and students of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School for the New Year.
The latest conference was on Thursday, January 21 and, like the previous one, was held at Campus B, where teachers, parents and their children met in the various classrooms.
The principal of the school, Mrs Rita Celestine-Carty, spoke to The Anguillian newspaper about the PTA conferences.
“We have been holding these meetings for the past four years since Hurricane Irma,” she explained. “We used to have something called ‘Parent Evenings’, when school ended at 3.00 pm. Parents would come at that time and have individual conferences with the teachers of their children. Since Irma, we are on a shift system and we have to take an entire shift to have these parent/teacher conferences rather than an evening.
“On Wednesday afternoon we had the Fifth Form parents coming with their children to meet with the teachers. Today [Thursday] we have Forms I and 3 on the morning shift. There was no regular school then so the parents came to the conferences. On the first day, we tried Forms 1, 2 & 3 but the crowd was too big. Form 2 is going to be next Friday and Form 4 will be in the early part of February. We will then be finished with the Parent/Teacher conferences for the 2020-2021 schoolyear.”
The students’ school performance reports are among the matters discussed at the conferences.
