Melissa Chan-Green

But this is really, I guess what you're saying is...

It's around managing anxiety, again, coming back to what we were talking about at the beginning.

It's just managing people's concerns in a way that is actually realistic to what is happening in your school.

Yeah, and I guess then this next question is,

I'm asking purely based on your school because I was gonna say, what would you like parents in the community to understand about the changes that are happening and how to communicate with the school about that?

And as you have said, each school is going to be on a different journey and they're going to be in a different place as to where they are with those changes.

So each school might have different advice, but do you have advice

generally about how parents can have respectful communication with a school about that.

What difference can it make for a parent to understand the classroom practice, you know, how teachers are teaching and what they're teaching and to understand kind of where their child sits?

How much of a difference can that make for their child?

We don't do that anymore, Mum.

Yeah, pretty much.

How is the harmony with your teachers?

I mean, obviously it sounds like a wonderful school to work at, but when we talk about PLD, so we talk about all these demands on professional development and we talk about the demands that you have on communicating with families, like how are they feeling?

So it's about adding the expectations where you feel it's important, but then lessening the burden where you feel that

Yes, totally, which is a good reminder for parents that if you want it to continue, email back.

Say that it's useful.

Going back to the diversity of your school and that large percentage of ESOL learners, what did you say?

It took over 50%, yeah.

So what have you seen to be most effective in these learners?