OASIS: the online portal for parents

OASIS is the secured part of our website which gives restricted access to parents of Dukesbridge students and allows them to read an account of what a child’s class has covered along with some pictures.  The posts are generally updated by 5pm every afternoon. This tool enables the parents to follow the activities being done at school on a daily basis and engage with their child at home accordingly.  For the Primary students, weekend “home learning” sheets are uploaded on Fridays. Also on the portal, parents have access to documents such as the Termly lunch menu, schedule for holiday clubs, list of extracurricular activities, school Terms and Conditions, new fees published every August, among others. OASIS is the main platform where Dukesbridge memos, various announcements and FAQs for our events are published throughout the year. As per our Terms and Conditions, parents are required to regularly check the online portal for what is coming up.  Furthermore, OASIS has a messenger service which parents can use to communicate with the team, for example a request to administer medication. Through OASIS, the team sends parents accident, incident and lunch reports where any such occurrence applies.

Religions & Cultural Diversity

The assembly starts with a general morning prayer which acknowledges the existence of God, but it does not mention any deities. We believe that faith is sacred and that it is not the place of the school to be imposing any religious doctrine or tradition on a child. Dukesbridge treats culture, folklore and language separately from religion. Our students and their parents come from all over the world, and this diversity is fully embraced at school. For our national independence day, we usually have a performance by a group of students dressed up to reflect the ethnic communities that make up the local population. Children learn about cultures and communities in more detail as from Windsor class. Each year, we select a few cultural celebrations that we focus on as a school, but we are careful not to celebrate those with religious inferences. Our end-of-year musical productions are also culture-themed. For instance, for our African-themed show, during the whole term all the children learn about Africa, dance to African rhythms and even dress up like Africans or African animals, and so do the parents who attend the show! 

Special Needs

Dukesbridge is committed to providing opportunities to enable a child with intellectual gifts and talents, physical impairments or learning difficulties to be included in all aspects of school life. By integrating children with special needs into our mainstream classes, we have witnessed enormous progress and an increased confidence in them as a result of feeling happy and accepted by their peers who may appear or behave differently.  We recognise that varying degrees of impairment require different strategies and methods to support the child’s learning. Depending on our teachers’ capabilities and the class vacancies, once a child’s needs have been assessed and identified, the Dukesbridge management would recommend a plan to the parents in order to support academic progression and continued good physical and mental health and wellbeing.  We may at times request that the parents provide extra support or additional resources where appropriate. The plan is constantly reviewed with the parents, and the school relies on timely and frequent feedback and recommendations from the child’s medical doctors and therapists.