Our PTA

The PTA collaborates closely with parents, teachers and the school management to:

• Provide a forum for parents and teachers to exchange views for the overall benefit of students at IMS
• Promote a sense of community among the teachers, parents, and students
• Enhance the educational environment at IMS
• Encourage parents to actively participate in IMS programmes and activities
• Assist in fundraising for PTA and school programmes

What does the PTA do?
PTA events are run entirely by parent volunteers. While all parents and teachers are part of the PTA, our community is strengthened by our many enthusiastic and hardworking volunteers. (Thank you to all of you!)

PTA Structure

• The PTA Executive Board

Composed of representatives from each campus, these members are elected for the following positions: Co-Chairs (2), Secretary, Treasurer and Community Liaison, and serve for two years. The Board meets regularly with IMS’ Executive Committee to discuss school policies, community building events, community feedback and more. During the last PTA AGM held in May 2020 the new Committee was voted in by IMS parents.

• PTA Board Liaisons (PBL)

A PBL manages the campus’ Class Parent chat, connects closely with the IMS Campus Leader, organizes campus-wide volunteer initiatives and communicates between respective campus communities and the PTA Board.

• Library Coordinators & Volunteers

At Stanley, Aldrich Bay and South Horizons campuses, parent Library Coordinators organize volunteers, the Birthday Book program, library themes and work with our IMS School Librarian, Ms Coco, to provide an exciting library program throughout the school.

• Class Parents

Each Class has 2-3 Class Parents who (1) work closely with your child’s teacher to organize class-wide events (i.e. virtual and in-person events, cooking, parties, gardening, going out activities, teacher gifts and more) and (2) collaborate with the campus community as a whole and the campus leader on policies and school initiatives and (3) communicate with the PTA Board Liaisons (PBLs) and the PTA Board.

• Event Committee Chairs & Volunteers

Many PTA activities have Event Committee Chairs to manage the event and the volunteers for that event. Read on to see the types of events and projects Committee members run. Never run an event before? Join us to learn how!

New PTA Events

• Monthly online speaker series for parents
• Online activities For children (Committee)
• “Buddy families”
• Virtual library and library reading (Library Coordinators)

Traditional PTA Events and Activities

• School Picnic (Committee)
• International Festival  (Committee)
• Speaker events
• Appreciation events
• Second hand uniform sales (Committee)
• Memory Book (Committee)
• Birthday Book program (Library Coordinators)
• Support for IMS Open Days, Artstravaganza, photography, and the campus Libraries

These may be unusual times, but we are excited about another engaging year for our IMS community!

how I can get involved in the IMS PTA?