Melissa Chan-Green

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?

I'm guessing that that feeling of safety at school is, it doesn't change no matter where you're from.

No, absolutely.

But is there anything that you feel really helps a school that is so diverse?

And I guess they just feel like, oh, there's...

You know, that relates to me.

Absolutely.

I have a sense of belonging here.

I think in terms of the way that your brain actually can function when you're able to take on more than one language, it's hugely beneficial.

But also speaking in your home language at home can really benefit actually learning languages.

English or your literacy at school, right?

Absolutely.

Because you're picking up all of those words that if you're just learning a language, you might be at very basic level vocabulary, but in your home language, you have that much more rich exposure to those words.

In terms of literacy, structured literacy, as you mentioned earlier, is one of the changes that has been brought in.