Communicaon

General Informaon

Good communicaon between home and school is essenal The school strives to model sustainable development and this means taking acve steps to reduce our carbon footprint Therefore, we have paperless communicaon whenever possible, and this can be summarised as follows:

● Emails from “ISP NEWS”: The school will email parents with news about specific events, special announcements, field trips or changes to our normal roune In addion, all noces about electronic communicaon, including login details for the ISP Parent Portal (see below), are sent by email, so it is very important that your email address is valid and that you check your email account regularly for school news Please note that the sender for most ISP-related regular mass emails will appear as “ISP News” or “IT Support”.

● ISP Parent Portal: ISP provides a resource for parents seeking more detailed informaon about school acvies. Parents are strongly encouraged to login to this secure area of the school website The Parent Portal contains an electronic directory of staff contacts, photos of recent events, curricular and school handbooks, learning resources, and much more The login details will be sent at the beginning of the school year

● Weekly newsleer: This is a summary of recent and upcoming school events. In addion, there are links to the school calendars, as well as various important messages from the Head of School, Principals, Board of Trustees and PTA. We strongly recommend that you use this resource to keep-up with school events and acvies.

● ISP events calendar: You can also easily connect the above-menoned ISP event calendars to your mobile device This feature will synchronise the ISP's calendar with your device’s calendar You will be able to access all events and informaon about them directly in your calendar

● ISP website: The school website (hps://www.isparis.edu/) provides details of major events, recent news, and up-to-date curricular informaon. Some of this is password protected, and not accessible to the general public.

● Good communicaon between home and school is essenal If parents would like to speak with a member of staff, we would always recommend that they reach out to the person most directly concerned in school If the issue is about a specific class, then they should contact the teacher concerned If it is a more general issue, the homeroom teacher will be the person to contact. Please note that under French law (Droit à la Déconnexion) all members of staff have the right to disconnect out of school hours. Therefore parents may experience a delay in receiving a response to emails.

For further informaon about ISP’s communicaons systems or to provide feedback or suggesons for improvement, you are welcome to contact our communicaons team at communicaons@isparis net

Specific Inquiries

In most cases, the Homeroom Teacher/Specialist Teacher would be the first point of contact for parents with enquiries about their child’s academic progress. Should you need to speak with one of your child’s teachers, please call the school to schedule an appointment or contact the relevant person via email All faculty and staff members can be found in the online directory through the ISP Parent Portal

Personal informaon

It is very important for the school to have complete and up-to-date informaon about all of the students and people we may need to contact in case of emergency. Please make sure that the school is informed in the case of changes or addions to any of the following details by sending an email to recepon@isparis.edu:

● home address or telephone number;

● parents’ and other contact details, especially mobile phone numbers and email addresses;

● medical informaon including vaccinaons, operaons, allergies and anything else of relevance. For reasons of health and safety, parents should inform the school of any medicaon that their child is taking.

Medical informaon

If students become unwell while at school, they must go to the Health Office. The school nurse, or a nominated member of staff in the case of her unavailability, will evaluate the student’s medical condion and decide whether or not the student should go home. The school will nofy the student’s parents to come pick up the child. Please note that if a student has a minor complaint, the school nurse may administer medicaon. The school will nofy the student’s parents if a decision is made to send a child home.

In the case of a more serious concern, the school will contact the parents and/or the SAMU (emergency medical service) In the case of an emergency, the school will contact the SAMU and will make medical decisions based on the doctor’s recommendaons, including surgical intervenon Parents will be systemacally informed if the school contacts the SAMU about their child’s health, but it may not always be possible to do this before contacng emergency services Please note that the school provides medical insurance for all students while they are in our care, although depending on circumstance this insurance may not cover all medical costs

Parental Absence

Please nofy the school if you are planning to take a trip away for more than a day. The school office will require details of appointed guardians and emergency telephone numbers.

Permission and Informaon Forms

At various mes during the year we may need to contact parents directly for them to give permissions or informaon in order for their children to take part in various acvies

Somemes these will be paper forms but in other instances, the permissions or informaon will be gathered electronically

The digital authencaons tools we use may depend on the nature of the informaon or authorisaon required and could include: Google forms, Finalsite (web service provider) forms, E-Quesonnaire surveys, YouSign or DocuSign documents We consider responses given through these systems to be binding

School Closure

Should it be necessary to close the school at short noce (for example, due to Covid-19 outbreaks, severe weather, naonal emergency or transport strike), the school will nofy every parent via email and/or SMS. Should you have any concerns please check your email before calling the school office.

Connecng with Parents

Orientaon

There is a comprehensive set of scheduled dates over the academic year where parents are informed about the school and the progress of their children In August, a large orientaon session is provided for new families to discuss transion into the Primary School Smaller, bespoke versions are offered for families joining throughout the year In September, once the children have had a chance to sele into the new school year, a ‘Meet the Teachers Evening’ is held for parents to connect in a general way with each other and the staff

Conferences

Each year there are two official opportunies for parents to come to school to meet the teachers and discuss progress. There are also two wrien reports that are sent at the end of each semester.

Volunteer Opportunies

We like to involve our parents in the daily life of the school. Our parent populaon is extremely rich in experience and culture and we recognize that students benefit greatly from this. We welcome and encourage parents’ input. These are just some of the ways in which you can parcipate:

● give a presentaon about your country;

● demonstrate your special talent in music or cras;

● chaperone field trips and social events;

● share your career experience or experse with students;

● help out in the library;

Parent Teacher Associaon (PTA)

The Internaonal School of Paris Parent Teacher Associaon (PTA) is a registered non-profit organizaon. The purpose of the PTA is to:

● provide support to parents and faculty members;

● support school goals through volunteer service, fundraising acvies, and enhanced educaonal opportunies for students;

● provide a channel of communicaon between parents and the school;

● provide a forum for discussion of important issues and, where appropriate, inform the School administraon and Board of Trustees of the opinions of the members of the associaon, at the discreon of the PTA Execuve Commiee

How can you be part of the PTA?

All parents of students enrolled at the Internaonal School of Paris are members of the PTA During the school year, you will receive a PTA annual contribuon form Remember that the PTA can thrive only through the contribuon of each and every one of you! Checks should be made payable to "The ISP Parents and Teachers Associaon."

How can you parcipate?

The PTA welcomes your parcipaon Parents are encouraged to contribute in any way they can Your children benefit from your involvement. You will find more informaon about how to volunteer in the PTA on the Parent Portal.

Class Contact Details

Parents will be contacted by PTA Grade Level Reps to opt into a WhatsApp group that connects parents and enables community events, such as coffee mornings or family picnics to be organised. One of the larger events the PTA supports is the Primary School Holiday Bazaar. Children and parents collaborate to make cras that are then sold and all proceeds go to a charity selected by our Grade 5 students.