I was assigned as the principal of Vilufushee School on 21st July 2009 but I reported to office on 1st of August 2009. However, I began service as soon as I arrived on a Friday. The school as I was informed was built by British Red Cross as part of the project to support the Tsunami hit regions of the Maldives. Further I came to know that the staffs of the school were desperate to have a school head. I first wondered why they needed a head so badly, as there was a deputy principal as well.
When I arrived there I expected the school to be a bit organized as there was a head from another school for a brief period along with the deputy principal. However the condition was not even close to my expectation. The first reflection which I received was that the teachers were not paid properly and that students weren’t even given their marks cards or report forms. Further different people brought forward several issues of their concern.
I decided to conduct a meeting that afternoon with all the teachers and later in the evening I conducted a meeting with the secondary students and parents. In the first meeting I found very few parents though many students attended. I used this opportunity to encourage those who were present to bring the rest of the parents for future meetings which was quite successful. I consider it a very good achievement as I used the next opportunity to build a better rapport with the parents.
I spent the second day which was a Saturday in gathering information of the school. I interviewed the deputy principal almost for six hours and the supervisors for less than two hours.
I gathered plenty of information in these two meetings and even the meetings held separately with the expatriate teachers and local teachers helped me in collecting very useful information about the condition of the school and the immediate things to be attended.
(second experience as a school leader-1)
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