Parent-friendly primary school al-ghazali.

Parent-friendly primary school al-ghazali.

Primary school Al-Ghazali in Rotterdam is nominated for the Ouders & Onderwijs award for the most parent-friendly school in the Netherlands. Read here why.

What makes Al-Ghazali parent-friendly?

Primary school Al-Ghazali stands out mainly because of the many ways parents can actively share their views at school. The jury especially values the equality in the cooperation with parents. The father evenings, where fathers meet, are also an original way to create extra contact and involvement.

What parents say about the school

Parents are very happy with the say they have at Al-Ghazali: ‘This is a school where you can be very involved as a parent’. In parent meetings, topics discussed are those important to parents and linked to lessons. There is also a focus group that actively thinks along about how to involve parents. Especially special are the annual partnership days, where parents discuss a theme with teachers using self-made statements. The feedback from parents is processed by the team when planning contact between school and parents. This creates a cooperation that makes both the team and parents happy.

What Al-Ghazali says about parents

The school strongly believes in the power of cooperation between school and parents: ‘The joint premise is that parents and school need each other to build an environment in which students can grow and thrive.’ That is why the school is very happy with the active focus group of parents. As the school says: ‘Only by combining the vision of parents with that of the school team, a good base is created for a close and involved cooperation.’

Other nominees for the award

Primary school Al-Ghazali in Rotterdam is one of three schools competing for the award ‘Most parent-friendly primary school in the Netherlands’. The other primary schools competing are De Schakel in Utrecht and De Ontdekking in Maarheeze. Also in the category secondary and special secondary education, three schools compete for our unique award: Het Goese Lyceum in Goes, The Eligant Lyceum in Zutphen and The Vathorst College in Amersfoort.

Voting

You can vote until 10 November. You can cast two votes: one for your favorite primary school and one for your favorite secondary school. Every vote counts and helps choose a winner. What is your favorite?

About the award

Ouders & Onderwijs is ten years old this year. To celebrate this anniversary, we will give an award this autumn to the most parent-friendly schools in the Netherlands: one primary school and one secondary school. With this award, we want to draw positive attention to parent involvement and parent friendliness in education. And put parents and schools in the spotlight. Of course, the winners will get a nice trophy and a fun prize. Do you want to know more about our anniversary?