Event FAQ: Discover your child's potential with international education in Singapore

After the SCMP Conversations: Education webinar held in April 2022, we sat down with Lisamarie Hughes, the Principal of EtonHouse International School Sentosa and EtonHouse International Education Group; and Mark Renie, the Head of School at One World International School to ask them a few questions. Here's an excerpt from the interview.

How is your international school adapting to changes during the COVID pandemic?

[Lisamarie]: During COVID, our top priority is keeping our community safe while ensuring the learning continues. When physical lessons were discontinued during the circuit breaker, our schools transited to online learning. Teachers created home learning kits and an online portal for parents and students to access resources and learning materials. We also published books and board games about the pandemic to help children comprehend the situation. EtonHouse also gave out laptops, sim cards and other resources to the less fortunate children in the community to help them access online learning.

Because the Singapore government has always prioritised keeping schools open, we’re hopeful that home-based learning is a thing of the past as we transition to an endemic phase in Singapore. However, should the need arise, we are always ready to switchgear as all our teachers are comfortable with online teaching and have created a pool of resources to support learning from home. 

After two years, we now see the light at the end of the tunnel as COVID measures are gradually being relaxed. Mask-wearing is no longer required outdoors. Children can now mingle in larger group sizes of 10. Extra-curricular and enrichment activities have resumed. We can even plan for out-of-school activities and excursions! We warmly welcome these and look forward to more normal socialising and returning to pre-COVID days.

[Mark]: Keeping our community of students, staff and parents safe and healthy is our top priority. While regulations in this COVID era keep evolving, we keep ourselves updated with the latest advisories from the Committee for Private Education (CPE) and carefully follow all the relevant safety regulations and measures as advised by the CPE, Singapore’s Ministry of Health and other governing bodies.