ISB offers student support and counselling services for students in Kindergarten through year 13. Our Counselling and Learning Support Department assists students with academic support during the school day, depending on need and specialist evaluation.
Our CLS team aims to provide support to students whose academic needs are significantly different to the majority of pupils in their age/class group. They provide academic support to students individually or in different types of small groups, depending on need and specialist evaluation. We offer support to students with a wide range of needs, including dyscalculia, dyslexia, mild autistic spectrum condition, ADHD, oppositional behaviour, and communication disorder and have a close collaboration with teachers and parents.
We all experience times when it feels hard to talk to those closest to us about things we find troubling. Perhaps we experience a difficulty that we feel is hard to overcome, or we just need someone to talk to and help us think things through. Counselling at ISB promotes student success by supporting positive relationships and personal and social development in a confidential setting.
Our CLS team provides general counselling for a wide variety of emotional, personal, social and transition issues. At this moment, we have three qualified, enthusiastic, committed and experienced counsellors who are responsible for providing students with guidance and support in dealing with issues related to learning, peer and family relationships, and managing a range of emotions and situations from anxiety, worry, exam stress, depression, to loneliness and rejection.
Counselling offers an opportunity to explore your feelings in a safe environment and help you develop ways of coping with them. Counselling gives individuals an opportunity to explore, discover and clarify ways to live in a more satisfying and resourceful manner. It offers the young person the opportunity to increase their self-awareness, develop their personal resources and understanding of their own problems, as well as developing strategies to cope with change.
Please contact us if you need more information on our services, you are worried about your child’s academic progress or emotional development, or you need to talk about the never-ending challenges of parenting. As a team, we will use all our knowledge and experience to support you and your child in becoming an amazing person.
ISB takes our moral and legal responsibility to safeguard the welfare of students seriously and has committed to rigorous systems, practices, and policies to prevent and respond to student harm that arises. We recognise that students need the foundation of a healthy, safe, and supportive school environment to ensure opportunities are optimal for learning and growing into their best school-age selves and that school-wide safeguarding policies and practices have a large role to play in creating and sustaining an emotionally and physically safe and healthy environment.
The International School of Bucharest strongly believes that every child has a right to feel safe and protected from harm, regardless of ability, ethnicity, faith, gender, sexuality, and culture. We recognize that ISB is in a unique position of primary responsibility for the safety, care, and welfare of students in its charge. To fulfil the duty to care, ISB commits to embedding safeguarding policies, procedures, and guidelines into the school’s overall operations.
All students at ISB are entitled to an environment that is safe and secure. We expect all employees, parents, volunteers and contracted service providers to maintain an attitude of vigilance for possible signs of abuse, neglect and/or exploitation of students. Introducing student safety lessons is one of the most important components of harm prevention. The lessons are designed for age and stage and serve to introduce and reinforce our school values of character, Honesty, Empathy, Responsibility and Open-mindedness for each student.
We have a Code of Conduct for faculty and staff and a Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy that outlines procedures and reporting practices. These follow and meet the recommendations and requirements of our accrediting agencies, which include CIS, BSO and COBIS. Extended safeguarding training for all the members occurs on an annual basis, and background checks are conducted on all employees.
In keeping with the robust commitment to safeguarding protocols, the school continues on a journey to implement best practices in prevention and response to safeguarding concerns within our community, including abuse, neglect, exploitation, and peer-on-peer maltreatment. Safeguarding at ISB is more than a policy or list of protocols. It is more than an annual training or set of standards. Rather, at ISB we believe that safeguarding involves building and nurturing a caring, responsive, and protective culture of awareness, knowledge, and empowerment in our student and adult communities.
