no schools---no kids

If kids are going to smoke they are going to smoke regardless..Blaming white teachers is idiotic, they will be influenced by friends or parents..Smoking in the middle east isn't frowned upon its like drinking tea or coffee..I've seen alot of kids here smoking..Is it all influenced by whites? I'm white and don't smoke its plain ignorance to blame white teachers or even attach a colour to the subject..Racism at it best!.

ok i need to tell u all this i am a level 7 (highest grade in the ib system) student in islq and all of the top schools accepted me when i changed from qatar academy from asd to depakay but i chose islq because it's the better school the student are really friendly and your class is as smart or as you in every subject because you get dived to your to 3 classes in every class with people that same level as you.

Can the MODS seriously do something about this pleb "boredinQatar"

Am I a little crazy here? When I understand that the medium of instruction is in English and I want a native English speaker? Not even sure what skin color would have to do with that. About 20% of Americans aren't lily white and I believe that there is a considerable number of Brits in that category as well. I just want someone who speaks, writes and understand grammatical, colloquial English. Call me a fool ...

Mandi

Errrrrr the fact that they are described as ''W' rings alarm bells to me! get over it love.....it's called the real world in the middle east! that's how it works!.....end of

and how it can not be discourage by teachers who themselves are smoking. If I mentioned W, well all I have seen are W teachers or you prefer British and Australian and South African teachers? Mine is just an observation!

well be specific then and stop saying things without backing it up. You can't say....."I don't wanna end-up being accused of racism again, but....and then not explain what you have said.

So please enlighten us.....if you can't then I'm sorry but its plainly obvious what it is.

The British teachers at Newton Lagoon are to my knowledge all qualified teachers and will have had to provide an up to date CRB check before even being bought to the country ( a CRB check for non British readers is the enhanced police check required to be carried out on any adult who works with children in the UK. NO current CRB check in the UK means you don't work with children! )So i'm not sure how it's possible that the PE teacher had problems in the UK, if that was really true then he would not have had an authenticated CRB check certificate.

The staff in my experience are enthusiastic and hard working, although it must be said that Newton Lagoon has employed rather a lot of newly qualified teachers starting their first year of teaching or teachers who have only 1-2 years of teaching experience. But this does not mean that they are not competent and hard working!

Glad to hear that.

Yes I think teachers should encourage children to follow the right path to good health.

So you do not think teachers should be teaching good health practices MT?

Yip! thought as much!

haha...well enlighten me with the message then. I teach all day so I would like to be taught something today :)

you just didn't get the message! Anyway, let's leave it that way!

Yes I do work on a different campus. You can not explain why you mentioned skin colour as you know it has nothing to do with the subject and completely wrong to use in this context.

However, we will leave it this way is you wish.

as you said, you are on a different campus and handles different levels!

nope haven't a clue what skin colour and smoking has anything to do with each other.

and hope now you sensed the skin color thing!

Haha..thats hilarious! I wish!

Thats your personal opinion DD and your experience. I also don't know when you worked for Newton. I am happy at my work so far and I do my job well. I'm not saying it's perfect, no workplace is, however this is my experience and opinion. Both of which I am free to share.

Newton schools are a disaster. I taught for two year and like almost all decent staff am headed for greener pastures. Badly managed, overpriced, questionable qualifications for some teachers, poor facilities. Say way you want MissTeacher but you read like the glossy brochure.

Yes I agree this behaviour is wrong....however the fact that they smoke should not affect what kind of teacher they are or their ability to do their job well.

Im not sure what you mean when you say, "strengthened my belief that factionalism exist in the campus. I am really hoping I am wrong!"...do you mean this is how all teachers think and act??

Also, you have not explained why you made a reference to their skin colour.

but the general perception of being hard to handle keeps coming to my mind seeing how they behave right after school time. Anyway, mine is just an observation. And the many instances of some incidence within the campus tend to strengthened my belief that factionalism exist in the campus. I am really hoping I am wrong!

I do not work at Lagoon, however this behaviour is wrong and very unprofessional in my opinion. I does not show a good example to the children. To my knowledge this does not happen at the school I work in then again I don't smoke therefore I wouldn't see if they did.

The W comment, as in white I'm assuming, is really unnecessary IMO...please do explain why this is relevant to mention someones skin colour when talking about teachers smoking? Of course the teachers will be white as there are no black/coloured teachers who work for Newton, except from the teachers assistants.

I converse with some of the teen-agers at LAgoon and many times try to advise them about the negatives of smoking. And your guess is right, they POINT to the teachers who tries to hide their smoking at the back of the school coasters.

The Heads of the departments and the Principal also implements the school policy for the children NOT to smoke but will there be a power in what they say when many of the adults that teaches them are smokers?

And I don't wanna end-up being accused of racism again, but your guess is again right, these teachers are all W.

Why thank you Flor...

It is not in our job title to stop children from smoking although I would try to discourage it if the subject came up. I don't smoke myself. I take it you are assuming that these children's parents do not smoke??

very young teachers indeed.

One question MT, do you think at NIS Lagoon, they will succeed in stopping the children to smoke if they see the teachers doing it themselves?

It just kills u to see this 2020:D

Looks like you found one supporter MT. Perhaps another member of staff on the bonuses-for-recruitment scheme? lol.

Thank you & well said Clangergirl ;)

I am currently going through the stress of finding schools in Doha as well. My experience though has been an unpleasant one. We have friends that had been to the schools for us before we arrived and submitted the paper work for our children. the only thing that was missing was the pictures. Spoke to the administrator of a well known and saut after British school over the phone who informed my husband that my children have secured a place. When he went in to provide the pictures and pay the deposit he was told that there isn't any space. The same incident happened at another British school as well. I am wondering if we are being judged differently since we are being turned away when we actually show up to make the payments at the school.

I am sure that most schools in Qatar when appointing and accepting a member of staff would ask for an enhanced police clearance (carried out in the UK) and if the member of staff was not up to scratch, he would not be employed. You can be a criminal for many things. I am probably a criminal everyday - I don't always stick to the speed limits when driving!

which teacher? if you are sure about such information why don’t you report him or inform the Supreme Education Council???!!! we're not the only parents sending their child there. if u are certain and u care enough, please let the authority-in-charge know.

They are all rubbish these Newton Schools. Most of the teachers are not fully qualified and if you google the sports teacher you will see he was a criminal in the UK and no longer can applyfor jobs there. He is very unstable and a bit psychotic....do you really want your children educated by someone like that?

unsafe?

Glad you found a place. Be sure to put him on the waiting lists of the better schools. It may take a year but better safe than sorry.

he got into Newton Lagoon, we are happy about that.

2020 Olympics: don't think we were late in applying anywhere. we started studying where to apply since 2010, and applied in the schools we chose January 2012.

compass and sherbourne are relatively expensive for us.

fneal: we were going to check loydence...but he got in to a school.

I think I can relax now. thank you all :)

Try compass and sherbourne and British Montessori. I would be shocked is one of the Newton schools does have a place. They are the lowest on most lists so last to fill.

Next autumn put your children on the list the DAY the schools accept applications. Then you will be fine the following year.

We are Loydence at azizya. Loydence is a small school which is slowly growing. They will be classes up to year 5 next year. We are an Australian family and I have my 3 kids there and they are enjoying it. There website is not great, apparently they are going to work on it, so does not really give a good indication of the school. As I said my family are happy. Worth looking into. Good luck, schools in this country are a nightmare.

how about Loydence Academy? any one has his children there?

Missteacher: we tried lagoon and they told us there is a slim chance but they'll give an answer next week. we visited west bay... i was weirded out by the campus, they said they have vacancy, made us sign a paper and said he can join. i was happy that was the first and only yes we got... but i am not sure if this is where we want him to go.

u work there right? i know al-waab school is a bit different than the rest, but what are the real differences among the other three? would you say both lagoon and west bay are at the same level with same qualified teachers... only the new campus attracted more people? west bay didn't even think they should interview my son which gave me the impression they have no applicants.

if lagoon doesn't offer us a place maybe will take him to west bay and try again next year

THE HEADACHE! Why do you supposed to have a big package? It's not a problem to others?

RESEARCH AND PLANING......

should have been in place b4 acepting the offer........no use venting or ranting AFTER LANDING(No PUN INTENTED..)

Have you tried all the Newton schools??

The employers can help out in such cases...don't envy you

u re can take him to paskitaian education centre there sch fees reasonable

The top schools are owned corporatly, Private schools just too expensive, Waste schools just waiting for the more fees paying student...

I went to QIS, But that time it was handled by a compleetteee different administration and princepal, Now its just propaa waste also.