An international school at our shores

Fairview International School coming to our shores

Designing The Future by Mr Daniel Chian Chairman Council of Governors

Change is a necessary evil and as we move into the next chapter in Fairview, it is always a privilege to pen a few thoughts for the year ahead. Apart from just physical changes in infrastructure in all of our campuses making them more student friendly, wireless with high speed broad band services and providing the much required facilities befitting an International Baccalaureate(IB) World School, the academic faculty has seen major transformation.

Continuous professional development, the backbone of any learning organisation has seen the introduction of consistent and sustainable initiatives in a calculated move to ensure that teachers are thorough and upskilled regularly with the latest in educational initiatives. With 4 campuses authorised for the Primary Years Programme(PYP) and the Middle Years Programme(MYP) of the IB, and the only schools in Malaysia to contain the two programmes under one roof, it is our duty to only offer nothing but the best in professional development for our teachers.

Three teachers have just returned from the US having gone through a 10 day rigorous programme in concept based education, an important tenet for 21st century learning needs. Two staff have been appointed members of the visiting schools’ authorization teams while one of them is in addition, a workshop leader. Our teachers have over the year attended numerous workshops overseas and visited other renowned IB world schools to share learning experiences. In school workshops, which are on- going on a weekly basis, are made convenient by technology. Video conferencing among centres has played a part in promoting not just a sense of family among campuses but more importantly, has made teaching and learning meaningful, as what better way can there be than sharing in learning. While preserving the individuality of each campus, video conferencing has contributed immensely to a learning community.

Fairview continues it laborious yet rewarding journey of bringing the best in 21st century education within the reach of the masses with the impending opening of new campuses in Ipoh, Kuantan, Port Dickson by end of 2015 and a new state of the art campus in Johor Bahru.

Fairview is a trusted name in a sound education for all regardless of caste, creed, race or colour and as Fairview heralds its 35th birthday, I can only vouch for better years ahead.