Climate Survey

Agree, Strongly Agree (bottom) / Disagree, Strongly Disagree (top)

Planned Actions

We will celebrate the increase in the sense of community among faculty, parents and students over last year.

Example Survey Comments

"There has been a renewed sense of community that I felt was missing over the past couple of years" — Secondary Faculty

Agree, Strongly Agree (bottom) / Disagree, Strongly Disagree (top)

Planned Actions

Whilst we want to celebrate the the values are high for an indication of adult respect of differences in all stakeholders, we are concerned that there is a lower percentages representing student respect of people's differences than there is for adults. As such, we will engage the student council or another student committee to create an action plan on how to improve levels of respect among students

Example Survey Comments

"Other students don't really respect the gender but but those students are working on becoming nicer but some people are still mean Sometimes" — G3-5 Student
"Some kids don't respect kids with different backgrounds, which is really bad." — G3-5 Student

Agree, Strongly Agree (bottom) / Disagree, Strongly Disagree (top)

Planned Actions

Whilst we want to celebrate the the values are high for an indication of adult respect of differences in all stakeholders, we are concerned that there is a lower percentages representing student respect of people's differences than there is for adults. As such, we will engage the student council or another student committee to create an action plan on how to improve levels of respect among students

Agree, Strongly Agree (bottom) / Disagree, Strongly Disagree (top)

Planned Actions

We plan to convene focus groups from each stakeholder to better understand the issue and generate possible solutions for implementation

Example Survey Comments

"As has been the case over many years, PSI still needs to work on the balance and well-being of its students. Obviously, this year had its own nuances. But, the topic needs to continue to be a priority for PSI." — Primary Parent

Agree, Strongly Agree (bottom) / Disagree, Strongly Disagree (top)

Planned Actions

Whilst we recognise the bullying situation has improved slightly the primary students still see it as a problem. As such, we pln to Increase lessons on kindness, conflict resolution and bullying. In addition, we plan to add additional focus on the defintion of bullying as compared to issues of conflict.

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Planned Actions

With the addition of the Advisory Programme in Secondary School, and increase social emotional lessons in primary classes, we hope that more students will trust adults with whom they work.

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Example Survey Comments

"They have high equality education.and fun activities" — G3-5 Student "It’s the best school that I’ve ever been to, the education has a very high quality and teachers are kind and cool." — Secondary Student "No doubt it is the best School in Ukraine" — Parent of Children in Both Divisions

Agree, Strongly Agree (bottom) / Disagree, Strongly Disagree (top)

Planned Actions

In order to learn more about why secondary students have a decresed belief in the PSI programme being well rounded, we plan to hold focus groups. Through this, we hope to gather strategies to implement in order to improve balance for our student body.

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Planned Actions

Since secondary students have less confidence in the timeliness and usefulness of feedback, we plan to adjust mechanisms and pacing of feedback. Additionally, we plan to add more regular 1:1 and small group meetings between students and teachers to provide feedback sessions.

Example Survey Comments

"Feedback from teachers is sometimes slow." — Secondary Student "More clear feedback on grading would be nice" — Secondary Student

Agree, Strongly Agree (bottom) / Disagree, Strongly Disagree (top)

Planned Actions

There is a discrepency between the perception of teachers and students in the amount of choice in learning. In order to address this, we plan to introduce more levels of personalisation in learning experiences.

Example Survey Comments

"I think what PSI has to improve is to give students a little bit more flexibility, where they can choose what to do from a few options. That only happened in a couple of classes, and maybe it would be better if most classes had that option." — Secondary Student

Agree, Strongly Agree (bottom) / Disagree, Strongly Disagree (top)

Planned Actions

We plan to convene a focus group with parents, leadership team and teachers to better understand parents' lack of satisfaction with academic progress.

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Planned Actions

We plan to convene focus group to understand dissatifaction with co-curricular activities opportunities and how much is a change in the programme and how much is related to the distance learning programme of the spring when the survey was conducted. Additionally, we plan to reword the question and discussion to clarify what activities are included as we have begun incorporating more co-curricular activities among options for students.

Example Survey Comments

"The choices this year were not as exciting for my child. He was very pleased with the options provided last year." — Primary Parent

Agree, Strongly Agree (bottom) / Disagree, Strongly Disagree (top)

Planned Actions

We plan to begin with a primary focus group to better understand their dissatisfaction with communication. Once we have suggestions, we plan to implement suggestions.

Example Survey Comments

"A lot less communication is. needed. Too many emails that contain the same information." — Primary Parent "We receive too many different kinds of communication and information is placed in too many places." — Secondary Parent

Agree, Strongly Agree (bottom) / Disagree, Strongly Disagree (top)

Planned Actions

We plan to continue our efforts to offer more opportunities for growth among staff in addition to faculty.