New or Potential Parent to MIS?
Overview Start
We'd like to show you the very basics of MIS first and then point you in the right directions. You can go quite 'deep' if you're interested into why we started and what some of our main policy and future goals are. You you can take a more leisurely skim, and figure out if we're speaking the same language as you might think about education, and then we can set up a meeting to discuss more with you face to face.
If you're thinking about sending your child to MIS, the information may be overwhelming at first. We have a dolphin in our logo, and this is why you might often see a ‘class’ referred to here as a ‘Pod’. Here is a possible route to go through our site:
What are our expectations of your child?
We totally believe that we are collaborators in your child’s education, that is we believe that we work with you. However, like all collaborations, they work best when all parties are ‘on side’. Here are the expectations that we have of children that join MIS.
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Your child will do all parts of the curriculum assigned by the school that is relevant to their level of learning. Please note this is perhaps relevant for some parents who would prefer their child to pick and choose parts of the curriculum perhaps because it seems to these parents that our teachings go against fundamentals in their faith.
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The motivation to learn has to come from the child and the family itself. That is children cannot expect us to ‘force’ them to become motivated. We try our very best to make the curriculum and pedagogy (way we teach) as engaging as possible - because that turns out to be the best way that we can teach. However, if a child is apathetic and demonstrably shows that they do not want to engage in our teaching and learning process, then this is probably a sign that this is not the right learning environment for them.
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Education at its best, does not just teaching abstract concepts, but it also tries to showcase how these concepts apply in the real world. The best way to do that is through field trips and of course we do many excursions into the greater Suva area and other times we go out of Suva for the day (such as our swimming assessments in Kiuva and Waidina).
In addition there are nominally three longer mandatory field trips that work with children at the Pod 5, Pod 8 level and Pod 11 & 12 level. It would mean your child spending significant time away from home (2 weeks to potentially 20 weeks) but under the supervision of MIS staff and vetted auxilary staff. During this time children will still continue doing their set curriculum but it will be in the context of learning their second language (Fijian, Rotuman or Mandarin) as a total immersion programme. This has been problematic to guarantee that we do this every year in recent years because of things like the pandemic, however, we are normalising this so from 2026 expect this to become standard for both Class 5 & Class 8.
Fiji Ministry of Education registration number SF: 8239