Wesley Methodist School Penang (International)

I really appreciate many things that the school has done, especially during the pandemic. Here are some of them: 1. The principal instructed that everyone, including the teachers, staffs and students must take their temperature twice (one before school starts and the other during lunch time). This is to ensure that everyone is safe. 2. Only Year 9 and 10 students are allowed to go to the canteen during break and lunch times. This is to prevent crowding in the canteen. 3. Strict SOPs are given to make sure everyone doesn't get involved in risks of getting Covid-19. 4. For some school activities, those are held online so everyone is free from close-contact. All these actions are taken to ensure everyone's safety and are not instructed for any inappropriate means. I thank the school at the bottom of my heart for giving all these instructions to take care for everyone.

These are the conclusions reached in the past two years during covid pandemic. We have tried to communicate with the teacher but have not received a corresponding response. On cca lesson school get the fee from parents, what student do on cca  is teacher go YouTube and get some YouTube link and let us see or get some resources n copy from Google. I think we can learn this ourself and all of this basically it's free. If we really want to learn these in depth, we can just go outside and get an online course and we can learn all of these skill about few days, not few month. Why we learn ourself online better than online CCA in school? -There can be more professional tutors. -We can learn these skill directly and can get more resources that we interested. -It can save us a lot of time and understand ourselves what we are learning for. Speak out the confusion of students and parents, and hope that the school will accept and act accordingly. Talking about the confusion of parents and students will make our campus life more perfect.

Environment is very nice and quietly with big and clean buildings. Good disciplines school. Principal very kind and nice. Teachers are well education experience. Student with good manners and happy studying in this school.

I am a graduate of the pioneering batch of this school from Year 9 to Year 11, and I can say honestly that it does not feel like I graduated from this school - it felt more like a tuition center if anything. The teachers that had taught us were one of the best I've ever met but also some of the most unqualified and obnoxious with a few pushing their seemingly religious agendas on converting students who are not Christian. On that note I felt like my privacy was invaded and I felt extremely insecure being there knowing I was a target of the words some of those teachers were saying. In terms of being unqualified, I was given the impression that some of the teachers weren't familiar with the Cambridge IGCSE syllabus and only repeated or rephrased words from the textbook. These were mostly for subjects that were new and not apart of the normally offered subjects in y7-9. Thus I resorted to teaching myself and personally felt that experience in class was wasted. On the other hand some of the teachers were extremely kind, understanding, and supportive. The ones I have got to experience did not push students down and only encouraged them to do better. I liked this nature of Wesley. However, I recalled a sour experience with a teacher in my early years of Wesley, who meddled with student affairs and complicated unnecessary drama. In my opinion it was incredibly unprofessional and unnecessary that it only made things worse. They gave off an aura that they enjoyed the drama and committed such acts that separated ties. Not wanting to linger on that memory any longer, I would finally like to touch on how the school barely gave any recognition to the graduating batch - the pioneering batch of this school. We worked hard for our final exam to shape the image of Wesley, yet we as Year 11's organized our own graduation ceremony and ebook compiled of our memories in this school. We personally feel hurt and that we are only seen when our Igcse results are out. Even then, they only mention those who score 8As and above, disregarding the number of subjects others took, and the rest of the other students who poured effort into their studies. As a result I truly felt we were nothing more than marketing materials for this school's reputation. I thank Wesley for the people I met and the experiences learnt. However I hold little to no emotional attachment to this school as a part of my highschool life and I feel incredibly sad about that.

As a parent who started the Wesley journey with the WMS primary school, joining the secondary school is a big let down in term of teacher quality and management efficiency. We find many untrained teachers who grossly lack the skills and knowledge to teach their respective subjects, all sort of teachers come and go, contract, part-time, even young and barely out of school interns are teaching in secondary! Every new term, we hear news of good teachers in the senior years left. We also have a rather slack school management that always cites miscommunication as reason for errors and issues they are incapable to resolve. Academic emphasis is far less than religion focus in many ways, it is also sad to see favoritism n bias in student body selection and award process. Lots to improve for secondary school under the current leadership, until then, this is not a place to be.

Frankly speaking, this school is honestly the worst as not only the education is bad( the teachers seems like they don't have any teaching experience), the attitude of the teachers are also really bad. The principal doesn't know how to control the school in a professional manner and always scold the students for no reason, vice versa the teachers as well. Conversely, the environment in this school is quite acceptable since it's a new school and I wouldn't expect anything from it. Conclusion is that the only thing you will receive in this school is bad education and lots of unnecessary scoldings. However, the school is near McDonalds, so I think that's the only good thing about it.

In my entire schooling life, this was the worst experience I have ever had. I enjoyed primary school very much. However, Secondary school is appalling. The subject teachers didn't even know how to teach well; they were unfamiliar with the IGCSE Curriculum and had a novice-level of English proficiency. We were often given an easy going day-to-day life with little or no homework, but when it comes to school exams we were so unprepared. Sadly, this was fine by many students. Also, the teachers were known to WASTE time by watching videos and dismissing us 20 minutes earlier during the online classes, giving the excuse of letting us "Rest our Eyes." . This led to them skipping chapters claiming that it was not tested for the particular year when it was included in the textbook. The timetables weren't even properly looked through to consider the students' wellbeing. Long lesson hours without allowing to stop or else we may face warnings for not concentrating. Short mealtimes caused us to go hungry for a long time and we aren't even allowed to eat in front of the screen. What I hated the most was the fact that this school practises Christianity and it's importance and that's just trash and time-wasting. It's senseless and the point was just to entice students to convert to Christianity. I also feel that this school has a rather toxic community of students. Many students can't behave on internet and it leads to trouble again and again. The teachers here also practice a certain level of favoritism towards some brown-nosing students. In Conclusion, This school is the WORST SCHOOL EVER. Don't even bother enquiring about it. All you are doing is to be signing up for an appalling, torturing place for your kid to suffer like me. No one should go through this treatment. The Principal is irresponsible, and the most important and vital thing is the school fees. I can't highlight that more than anything else. CCA Fees were charged when we couldn't even do it properly during the pandemic (Due to SOPs), and during the MCO it was the TEACHERS who taught us and not the supposed COACHES. And guess what, they decided to charge it the same price. Nice right? You thinking that this is the most affordable international school here in Penang and you eventually figure out they are just cheating you here, there and everywhere. Thousands of hard-earned Ringgit from parents just go down the drain. How touching of this to happen. The moment they changed the principal it just went down. All the way DOWN. Just forget about this useless school.

My kids are in the primary school. So far so good. Like other international schools, there are excellent teachers and there are bad teachers. However, given that the CCA is paid, the activities can be better to match the fees charged. Other than that, the school fees are reasonable and the learning experience is good and conducive. Highly recommended ?