Academic Integrity Policy:
The aim of this policy is to:
1. Educate the school community on the importance and benefit of academic honesty;
2. Promote and ensure good academic practice and a school culture that actively encourages academic honesty;
3. Ensure all work produced by students is their own, authentic work; all such work has the ideas and words of others fully acknowledged and properly cited;
4. Outline the roles of everyone in the school community in ensuring academic honesty;
5.Encourage students to look to their teachers, supervisors and IB Coordinator(s) for support when completing assessed work to prevent any form of malpractice;
6. Outline the consequences that will be imposed should students be found guilty of academic malpractice.
Read the full Academic Integrity Policy here.
Language Policy:
The aim of this policy is to:
1. Educate the school community on the importance and value of language;
2. Promote language practices that effectively support our unique population of learners;
3. Promote a school culture that actively encourages the learning and celebration of multiple languages;
4. Ensure that all stakeholders understand their role in supporting language development
Read the full Language Policy here.
Assessment Policy
The MET Assessment Policy is based on the assessment principles and practices of the Metropolitan School of Panama and the International Baccalaureate Organization. In alignment with the school’s mission and vision statements, this assessment policy seeks to offer a framework by which all stakeholders in the community understand the purpose and practice of assessment.
Read the full MET Assessment Policy here.
Safeguarding Policy
The Metropolitan School of Panama fully recognizes its responsibilities for child protection. Our guidelines apply to all staff, governors and volunteers working in the school. There are five main elements to our policy:
1. Ensuring we practice safe recruitment in checking the suitability of staff to work with children.
2. Raising awareness of child protection issues and equipping children with the skills needed to keep them safe.
3. Developing and then implementing procedures for identifying and reporting cases, or suspected cases, of abuse.
4. Supporting students who have been abused in accordance with his/her agreed child protection plan.
5. Establishing a safe environment in which children can learn and develop.
Read the full MET Safeguarding Policy here.
Inclusion Policy
Read the full MET Inclusion Policy here.
