Reliably evaluated great by the KHDA (five out of five reports so far) Oud Metha found Lycée Français International is a French educational modules school right now went to by more than 1,900 understudies matured from three to 17 years old. The biggest single gathering of understudies are French nationals, trailed by Lebanese and Egyptians.
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Altogether more than 40 nationality gatherings are spoken to inside the understudy body.
Class sizes normal 25 understudies, an acknowledged greatest by the KHDA. "All" educators are said to have first degrees and additionally showing capabilities, with a noteworthy 33% of instructors coming in new to class in the 2013/14 scholastic period.
In the same way as other schools in the UAE, the dominant part of understudies can be found in the early years of the school
Understudies take the Diplôme National du Brevet toward the end of their troisième year. More seasoned understudies in the lycée are set up for the baccalauréat with 2014/15 the principal year understudies will take the exam in Terminale.
The school does not seem to distribute the aftereffects of understudies taking the Bac (something Which School Advisor energizes), yet the KHDA's most recent report offers the school a sensibly predictable go-ahead for both scholastic execution and advance crosswise over subjects (spare in Islamic and Arabic reviews – perpetual regions of shortcoming in Dubai's tuition based schools). The Lycee has "great achievement and advance of understudies in [other] subjects", while execution in English is judged Outstanding. There is in addition viable instructing over the school, with created learning aptitudes and a solid hard working attitude showed by the understudies themselves.
Scratch qualities of the school incorporate fantastic conduct and demeanors of understudies, who show positive associations with different understudies and grown-ups; a great nature of care that that guarantees understudies' enthusiastic and physical prosperity; and a consolidated feeling of reason among pioneers at all levels of the school.
The KHDA does however make various suggestions that it accepts will improve the school. Suggestions incorporate enhancing progress in Islamic Education and Arabic in the collège; enhancing the consistency in instructing; giving better uncommon instructive distinguishing proof and bolster aptitudes; and quickening arrangements to outfit the school with state-of-the-art innovation.
In criticism guardians have noted innovation, and offices as a rule, require change and modernization.
Criticism on scholastic execution for Which School Advisor's review is still excessively constrained, making it impossible to give particular outcomes. We urge guardians to finish the poll which might be found here.
As indicated by the KHDA however there is to an expansive degree fulfillment with the school from guardians. Guardians rate the advance in French, English, arithmetic and science, and the great educating and learning.
There are however worries over Arabic and Islamic reviews, and also the level of additional curricular exercises advertised. The level of profession direction is additionally a reason for concern.
Expenses for Lycée Français International are generally moderate, going from 23,270 at KG1 to very nearly 50,000 AED in Year 12 (full points of interest beneath). This puts the charges in the center section for a school in Dubai. There is the mandatory 500 AED (non-refundable) for applications.
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Japanese School
Japanese School in Dubai is an embassy run non-profit school located in Jumeirah, Dubai and currently provides education from chhildren aged 6 to 15. The school was established in April 1980 by the Dubai Consulate of Japan.
The school currently caters to 133 students (down 6 from last year) with 18 staff.
The school, situated in Al Wasl, provides a private education for boys and girls from Primary to Junior High, aged six to 15 years.
The school follows the prescribed Japanese Ministry of Education curriculum. The Primary phase from Grade 1 to 6 is followed by the Junior High phase, from Grade 7 to 9. According to its KHDA report, almost all students return to Japan to complete high school. Japanese, mathematics, social studies and science are taught in Japanese. English and Arabic are taught as additional languages.
The school uses a variety of externally generated tests to monitor students’ progress. In the primary school students took standardized tests three times per year as well as school-based tests at the end of each term. In the Junior High School students sat the Japanese Nationwide Standard examination four times per year.
Most of the school’s teachers are expatriates selected by the Ministry of Education in Japan.
Japanese School Dubai is officially recognized by the Ministry of Education and as of 2013-2014 the school received the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) rating of ‘Good’, a rating it has held onto since inspections began.
The school’s KHDA report notes good attainment in external examinations in Japanese, English, mathematics and science; extremely well behaved, enthusiastic students committed to learning, who took pride in their school and community; continued outstanding care and support of students provided by the school; and continued outstanding school leadership and partnership with parents.
The KHDA’s recommendations are to continue to strengthen Islamic Education for Muslim students; improve attainment in Arabic across both phases by ensuring that it is provided frequently enough to meet UAE Ministry of Education requirements; and ensure that students with special educational needs are identified and have their learning needs met.
Facilities at the school include a gymnasium, swimming pool, science laboratories and ICT laboratories.
Iranian Towheed Boys School
Iranian Boys School Dubai (otherwise called Towheed Iranian Boys School) is a private K-12 school for young men situated in Al Quoz, Dubai.
The school is one of the most established schools in Dubai, being initially settled in 1957 by the Iranian Embassy. Right now the school obliges more than 800 understudies, with 64 instructors. In complete 40 percent of the educators originate from Iran while 95% of understudies originate from the nation.
The school has two streams, one in light of the Iranian educational programs, for young men, taking understudies from evaluations 1 to 12. There is additionally a "blended" stream, instructed in English from KG to review 8. This stream is educated in English with a consolidated American/Iranian educational modules.
The school starting 2011-2012 additionally got the Knowledge and Human Development Authority examination rating of Acceptable. The report was to a great extent positive in the nature of care, the vision of the school's initiative, and achievement in Maths and Sciences. It attracted thoughtfulness regarding a requirement for more noteworthy meticulousness in appraisals, and in the arrangement of Arabic, and different dialects.
The school additionally has a wide choice of games and additional curricular exercises on offer, including football, chess and various fairs held consistently.
The young men school works under a "directorate" dealing with the issues of eight Iranian schools in the UAE, with a consolidated understudy populace of 6,000. The schools are: Towheed International and Boys School, Towheed Girls School, Khadije Kobra (PBUH) Girls School, Salman Boys School, Sharjah Boys and Girls School, Imam Khomeini (MBUH) Boys and Girls School in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain Boys and Girls School, and Adab Private Boys and Girls School.
The school is one of the most established schools in Dubai, being initially settled in 1957 by the Iranian Embassy. Right now the school obliges more than 800 understudies, with 64 instructors. In complete 40 percent of the educators originate from Iran while 95% of understudies originate from the nation.
The school has two streams, one in light of the Iranian educational programs, for young men, taking understudies from evaluations 1 to 12. There is additionally a "blended" stream, instructed in English from KG to review 8. This stream is educated in English with a consolidated American/Iranian educational modules.
The school starting 2011-2012 additionally got the Knowledge and Human Development Authority examination rating of Acceptable. The report was to a great extent positive in the nature of care, the vision of the school's initiative, and achievement in Maths and Sciences. It attracted thoughtfulness regarding a requirement for more noteworthy meticulousness in appraisals, and in the arrangement of Arabic, and different dialects.
The school additionally has a wide choice of games and additional curricular exercises on offer, including football, chess and various fairs held consistently.
The young men school works under a "directorate" dealing with the issues of eight Iranian schools in the UAE, with a consolidated understudy populace of 6,000. The schools are: Towheed International and Boys School, Towheed Girls School, Khadije Kobra (PBUH) Girls School, Salman Boys School, Sharjah Boys and Girls School, Imam Khomeini (MBUH) Boys and Girls School in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain Boys and Girls School, and Adab Private Boys and Girls School.
Horizon International School L.L.C
it has had a Good appraising from the KHDA for its last six investigations.
The schools takes after the Early Years Foundation Stage educational programs at Foundation Stage. Skyline International's optional office began in September 2011 and offers GCSE and eventually A Level subjects.
The school is determined to a substantial corner site, with the Foundation segment isolated from whatever remains of the school in a solitary story working with its own particular get to, a Secondary master showing segment upstairs to the back of this and the fundamental L formed building spread more than three stories over the back and along the third side of the plot.
At the middle is a substantial Astroturf pitch and, concealed away at the back of the Secondary showing piece, is a 25m open air secured pool which was a hard-battled for expansion to the school (because of arranging confinements at first). At last, to one side of the working at the edge of the plot is the Sports Hall and Auditorium.
This is especially a group based school and the administration is determined to guaranteeing dynamic nearby and parental investment, both amid school hours and a short time later. Subsequently a significant number of the school's offices are interested in group individuals after school, including the swimming pool offices and outside Astroturf pitches. An extensive new indoor games corridor and theater (which has been renovated since the adjustment in proprietorship, to permit more adaptable extra indoor space with retractable seating) have as of late been opened. Skyline International arrangements to separate itself from different schools by making the Horizon Performance Institute to empower understudies with specific gifts in the performing expressions and games, and in addition offering them a solid scholastic program.
It is dependably a decent sign when the initiative of a school sets aside opportunity to meet with planned guardians; something that happens once in a while in most Dubai schools. At Horizon International, not just does the Principal guarantee that he is accessible to present the school, however the visit is driven by the Head of Primary or Secondary as fitting.
The initiative group is likewise plainly exceptionally pleased with, and focused on, their school. The staff are likewise extremely positive about the progressions and speculations made at the school since the new proprietors assumed control over (the new proprietors have included staff and overhauled offices). Despite the fact that the school has been under the present responsibility for Al Najah Group for just two years, the Principal and Head of Primary have both been educators at the school since it opened. They brag luckily low rates of staff turnover with just 5 out of a group of 75 leaving the school toward the end of the last scholarly year. Somewhere in the range of 17 new staff joined the Secondary school in September 2015. All staff are UK prepared, except for those instructing the 3 dialects accessible – French, Spanish and Arabic.
Those numbers supersede those distributed by the KHDA in its most recent report. It records 78 instructors and 31 bolster staff, and an educator turnover of 6-7%. This is low by UAE benchmarks. The majority of the educators in the school are said to have proper instructing capabilities.
The Teacher to Student proportion is 1:12, and the normal class size is 24 (which is additionally the most extreme classroom estimate).
The Foundation Section of the school is well laid out and fun! At its middle is an open play territory, with a sandy desert garden in the center and space for kids to play and ride tricycles inside amid the warm climate. Classroom are all light and splendid and open to the outside. We especially loved the chipper redesign sees for guardians to clarify what kids had been doing in school and forthcoming exercises. There is an after-school club to which working guardians can send their kids, which is open until 5pm.
The school offers an expansive scope of extracurricular exercises – some run inside (Tag Rugby, Swimming, Pool, Maths Club, Netball Squad, IAW Games, Quran, Homework Club, River Dance, Knitting, Sailing and Sensory Science), and some outside (Karate, IFA Sports, Woodwind, Music, Diving, and so on). This is viewed as one of the qualities of the school in reviews.
To the back of the Foundation segment, on the upper floor, there are a scope of master Secondary showing rooms including Art, Design Technology, Food Technology, Science labs, and ICT labs. There is a Bring your Own Device strategy in the optional school. It was a joy to watch a science lesson amid our visit, where understudies were walking around the focal work area zone while taking a gander at, and clarifying, the way power works. They were unmistakably enthused, as well as proficient about the subject!
Key stage 1 classrooms (from year 1 to 3) are situated on the ground floor of the fundamental building. In spite of the fact that customary in configuration, staff are making the best utilization of the accessible space (counting wide passageways) to orchestrate break-out zones outside the classrooms for little gathering work or extra support. Skyline International prides itself on being a comprehensive school and applications are evaluated on a case by case premise, to see whether the school has the assets accessible to bolster youngsters with extra adapting needs.
In the most recent KHDA report understudies with exceptional instructive needs are said to gain adequate ground in their learning and great or better advance in creating fearlessness and inspirational demeanors. The educational modules is properly changed in all lessons. Inventive additional curricular and improvement exercises then build up the self-assurance and life abilities of SEN understudies.
The ground floor of the school additionally incorporates authority showing spaces for Primary including ICT and Music rooms, notwithstanding master dialect classrooms. There is a focal lobby territory which is utilized for PE for more youthful youngsters. This was initially composed as a flask, yet is deficient in space for this reason. Youngsters in this way convey pressed snacks to class and there is likewise a juice bar where they can purchase new beverages.
On the primary floor, there are again an extensive variety of classrooms, mostly for Key Stage 2 understudies. An extensive library is situated in the peak of the building and this is intended to be versatile for school congregations and execution for Primary kids. The third floor houses the Secondary understudies' shape, showing rooms and library with arrangements set up to transform the peak room on this floor into a Sixth Form Center in time for September 2016.
There is a solid concentrate on reusing and natural matters in the school with understudy instructors and their representatives in every class in charge of guaranteeing that reusing receptacles are utilized and different thoughts examined and executed. The school additionally guarantees that kids are not exclusively focussed on scholastic subjects and offers are wide scope of Extra Curricular exercises (more than 70) including an extensive variety of games. The school effectively takes an interest in different donning associations and the BSME Games.
A vital component of building up the genius and freedom of the understudies is empowered through an extensive variety of private treks, beginning little with an overnight camp at school for year 3, then a 1 night overnight abandon remain moving towards longer excursions abroad for Secondary understudies (counting a ski trip). Year 9's sort out their own particular abroad excursion (which have included visits to India, Borneo and Vietnam) and are in charge of raising assets to pay towards the outing themselves, and in addition guaranteeing there is a philanthropy center inside it.
The school's most recent KHDA report introduces a note of alert concerning scholarly fulfillment. It takes note of a fall in establishment, essential and auxiliary in fulfillment for English, at essential and optional for maths and science. All subjects are right now appraised either Good or Acceptable.
Skyline International's first GCSE results were accomplished in Summer 2015 and were all early section entries for dialects. All understudies accomplished A*. In spite of the fact that this is unavoidably a little begin – and it is not sensible to expect such outcomes on a more extensive scale over a more extensive subject range in a school that is not scholastically specific – they obviously speak to an incredible begin for Horizon International's first GCSE companion, who will sit the rest of their exams in May 2016.
6th Form, which will offer A Levels, will open in September 2016.
Qualities of the school as per the 2013/14 and 2014/15 KHDA reports incorporate the solid group ethos, remarkable states of mind and conduct of the majority of the understudies, an extraordinary educational programs in the Foundation Stage; viable initiative which had maintained school change amid a period of impressive change; and exceptional plans for wellbeing and security in the school.
A few guardians have whined about the requirement for better SEN bolster inside the school, in any case, this has been enhanced in the course of the last 12-24 months. The KHDA takes note of the viability of the Achievement Center in supporting kids with unique instructive needs with the arrangement of experienced staff and their nearby organization with class instructors, showing partners and guardians.
The school made it into the main 20 most prescribed schools in the UAE in 2015, taking eighteenth spot by and large.
The school as of late presented a 500 AED punishment for late installment of expenses, which has disturbed a few guardians. Client remarks toward the end of the audit. Understudies are purportedly glad be that as it may, and anticipate going to class.
Charges are mid to top end, beginning at 32000 AED for FS 1 and climbing to 73895 AED for Year 10. Full points of interest are recorded by year amass underneath.
The schools takes after the Early Years Foundation Stage educational programs at Foundation Stage. Skyline International's optional office began in September 2011 and offers GCSE and eventually A Level subjects.
The school is determined to a substantial corner site, with the Foundation segment isolated from whatever remains of the school in a solitary story working with its own particular get to, a Secondary master showing segment upstairs to the back of this and the fundamental L formed building spread more than three stories over the back and along the third side of the plot.
At the middle is a substantial Astroturf pitch and, concealed away at the back of the Secondary showing piece, is a 25m open air secured pool which was a hard-battled for expansion to the school (because of arranging confinements at first). At last, to one side of the working at the edge of the plot is the Sports Hall and Auditorium.
This is especially a group based school and the administration is determined to guaranteeing dynamic nearby and parental investment, both amid school hours and a short time later. Subsequently a significant number of the school's offices are interested in group individuals after school, including the swimming pool offices and outside Astroturf pitches. An extensive new indoor games corridor and theater (which has been renovated since the adjustment in proprietorship, to permit more adaptable extra indoor space with retractable seating) have as of late been opened. Skyline International arrangements to separate itself from different schools by making the Horizon Performance Institute to empower understudies with specific gifts in the performing expressions and games, and in addition offering them a solid scholastic program.
It is dependably a decent sign when the initiative of a school sets aside opportunity to meet with planned guardians; something that happens once in a while in most Dubai schools. At Horizon International, not just does the Principal guarantee that he is accessible to present the school, however the visit is driven by the Head of Primary or Secondary as fitting.
The initiative group is likewise plainly exceptionally pleased with, and focused on, their school. The staff are likewise extremely positive about the progressions and speculations made at the school since the new proprietors assumed control over (the new proprietors have included staff and overhauled offices). Despite the fact that the school has been under the present responsibility for Al Najah Group for just two years, the Principal and Head of Primary have both been educators at the school since it opened. They brag luckily low rates of staff turnover with just 5 out of a group of 75 leaving the school toward the end of the last scholarly year. Somewhere in the range of 17 new staff joined the Secondary school in September 2015. All staff are UK prepared, except for those instructing the 3 dialects accessible – French, Spanish and Arabic.
Those numbers supersede those distributed by the KHDA in its most recent report. It records 78 instructors and 31 bolster staff, and an educator turnover of 6-7%. This is low by UAE benchmarks. The majority of the educators in the school are said to have proper instructing capabilities.
The Teacher to Student proportion is 1:12, and the normal class size is 24 (which is additionally the most extreme classroom estimate).
The Foundation Section of the school is well laid out and fun! At its middle is an open play territory, with a sandy desert garden in the center and space for kids to play and ride tricycles inside amid the warm climate. Classroom are all light and splendid and open to the outside. We especially loved the chipper redesign sees for guardians to clarify what kids had been doing in school and forthcoming exercises. There is an after-school club to which working guardians can send their kids, which is open until 5pm.
The school offers an expansive scope of extracurricular exercises – some run inside (Tag Rugby, Swimming, Pool, Maths Club, Netball Squad, IAW Games, Quran, Homework Club, River Dance, Knitting, Sailing and Sensory Science), and some outside (Karate, IFA Sports, Woodwind, Music, Diving, and so on). This is viewed as one of the qualities of the school in reviews.
To the back of the Foundation segment, on the upper floor, there are a scope of master Secondary showing rooms including Art, Design Technology, Food Technology, Science labs, and ICT labs. There is a Bring your Own Device strategy in the optional school. It was a joy to watch a science lesson amid our visit, where understudies were walking around the focal work area zone while taking a gander at, and clarifying, the way power works. They were unmistakably enthused, as well as proficient about the subject!
Key stage 1 classrooms (from year 1 to 3) are situated on the ground floor of the fundamental building. In spite of the fact that customary in configuration, staff are making the best utilization of the accessible space (counting wide passageways) to orchestrate break-out zones outside the classrooms for little gathering work or extra support. Skyline International prides itself on being a comprehensive school and applications are evaluated on a case by case premise, to see whether the school has the assets accessible to bolster youngsters with extra adapting needs.
In the most recent KHDA report understudies with exceptional instructive needs are said to gain adequate ground in their learning and great or better advance in creating fearlessness and inspirational demeanors. The educational modules is properly changed in all lessons. Inventive additional curricular and improvement exercises then build up the self-assurance and life abilities of SEN understudies.
The ground floor of the school additionally incorporates authority showing spaces for Primary including ICT and Music rooms, notwithstanding master dialect classrooms. There is a focal lobby territory which is utilized for PE for more youthful youngsters. This was initially composed as a flask, yet is deficient in space for this reason. Youngsters in this way convey pressed snacks to class and there is likewise a juice bar where they can purchase new beverages.
On the primary floor, there are again an extensive variety of classrooms, mostly for Key Stage 2 understudies. An extensive library is situated in the peak of the building and this is intended to be versatile for school congregations and execution for Primary kids. The third floor houses the Secondary understudies' shape, showing rooms and library with arrangements set up to transform the peak room on this floor into a Sixth Form Center in time for September 2016.
There is a solid concentrate on reusing and natural matters in the school with understudy instructors and their representatives in every class in charge of guaranteeing that reusing receptacles are utilized and different thoughts examined and executed. The school additionally guarantees that kids are not exclusively focussed on scholastic subjects and offers are wide scope of Extra Curricular exercises (more than 70) including an extensive variety of games. The school effectively takes an interest in different donning associations and the BSME Games.
A vital component of building up the genius and freedom of the understudies is empowered through an extensive variety of private treks, beginning little with an overnight camp at school for year 3, then a 1 night overnight abandon remain moving towards longer excursions abroad for Secondary understudies (counting a ski trip). Year 9's sort out their own particular abroad excursion (which have included visits to India, Borneo and Vietnam) and are in charge of raising assets to pay towards the outing themselves, and in addition guaranteeing there is a philanthropy center inside it.
The school's most recent KHDA report introduces a note of alert concerning scholarly fulfillment. It takes note of a fall in establishment, essential and auxiliary in fulfillment for English, at essential and optional for maths and science. All subjects are right now appraised either Good or Acceptable.
Skyline International's first GCSE results were accomplished in Summer 2015 and were all early section entries for dialects. All understudies accomplished A*. In spite of the fact that this is unavoidably a little begin – and it is not sensible to expect such outcomes on a more extensive scale over a more extensive subject range in a school that is not scholastically specific – they obviously speak to an incredible begin for Horizon International's first GCSE companion, who will sit the rest of their exams in May 2016.
6th Form, which will offer A Levels, will open in September 2016.
Qualities of the school as per the 2013/14 and 2014/15 KHDA reports incorporate the solid group ethos, remarkable states of mind and conduct of the majority of the understudies, an extraordinary educational programs in the Foundation Stage; viable initiative which had maintained school change amid a period of impressive change; and exceptional plans for wellbeing and security in the school.
A few guardians have whined about the requirement for better SEN bolster inside the school, in any case, this has been enhanced in the course of the last 12-24 months. The KHDA takes note of the viability of the Achievement Center in supporting kids with unique instructive needs with the arrangement of experienced staff and their nearby organization with class instructors, showing partners and guardians.
The school made it into the main 20 most prescribed schools in the UAE in 2015, taking eighteenth spot by and large.
The school as of late presented a 500 AED punishment for late installment of expenses, which has disturbed a few guardians. Client remarks toward the end of the audit. Understudies are purportedly glad be that as it may, and anticipate going to class.
Charges are mid to top end, beginning at 32000 AED for FS 1 and climbing to 73895 AED for Year 10. Full points of interest are recorded by year amass underneath.
Greenwood International School
Greenwood International School (GIS) is a private K-12 school situated in Muhaisnah 1, Dubai. The school initially opened its entryways on September 2006 and presently takes into account more than 990 understudies (up 70 on the year) – 80 percent of whom are Emirati. The rest of from basically British and American families. Greenwood is blended sex up until Grade 4. Young ladies and young men are isolated from Grade 5.
The school has 74 instructors (down 15 over a year ago), and an educator understudy proportion of 13:1 – useful for a UAE based school.
The school takes after an American educational programs adjusted to Florida and US Common Core guidelines with subjects instructed in English. Understudies are set up to sit the SAT exam and center subjects from review 9 incorporate English, Mathematics, Social Studies, Humanities (Including Islamic Studies, Civics, Geography and History), Science (Physics, Chemistry or Biology), Arabic and PE.
Graduate understudies get the US identical High School Diploma. All understudies are required to take the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills.
Starting 2013-2014 the school got the KHDA investigation rating of Good, the fourth year in succession it has done as such.
The KHDA report highlights the school's great administration group who set an unmistakable course and who demonstrate great ability to anticipate change; Outstanding understudy comprehension of Islamic qualities and their nearby, social and worldwide mindfulness from KG through to Grade 12; the Outstanding advancement in English by KG understudies; and Outstanding individual and social improvement at the secondary school level including conduct, dispositions, and hard working attitude.
The 2011/12 KHDA report highlighted a need to give careful consideration to kids with extraordinary needs – a note additionally on its 2012/2013 report. This is being tended to. At present 2% of the understudy body (2014) are perceived as having some from of SEN necessity and the school has as of late started a bolster group for SEN understudies. The school had connected with an outer supplier for this who give "broad consideration" of understudies with SEN in standard lessons. Educators' abilities in separation have not yet however achieved the purpose of having the capacity to address the issues of all learners.
As a suggestion, the school needs to improve the utilization of innovation to bolster adapting, especially as an instrument to test high and low achievers.
The school has great offices. Classrooms are outfitted with PCs, shrewd sheets and projectors. School offices additionally incorporate science labs, PC labs, a music room, workmanship room, petition rooms, libraries, therapeutic center, flask, and open air play area and play territories.
School expenses run from 16,000 to 24,600 AED every year relying upon the understudy's review year – great esteem contrasted with other Good evaluated US educational modules schools in Dubai.
The buzz
A school that appears to be all around enjoyed by its understudies, and guardians – and in practically meet measure the educators at the school. We have not got enough reactions yet to the WSA School Survey to remark on mentalities to scholarly execution, or criticism to guardians.
The school has 74 instructors (down 15 over a year ago), and an educator understudy proportion of 13:1 – useful for a UAE based school.
The school takes after an American educational programs adjusted to Florida and US Common Core guidelines with subjects instructed in English. Understudies are set up to sit the SAT exam and center subjects from review 9 incorporate English, Mathematics, Social Studies, Humanities (Including Islamic Studies, Civics, Geography and History), Science (Physics, Chemistry or Biology), Arabic and PE.
Graduate understudies get the US identical High School Diploma. All understudies are required to take the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills.
Starting 2013-2014 the school got the KHDA investigation rating of Good, the fourth year in succession it has done as such.
The KHDA report highlights the school's great administration group who set an unmistakable course and who demonstrate great ability to anticipate change; Outstanding understudy comprehension of Islamic qualities and their nearby, social and worldwide mindfulness from KG through to Grade 12; the Outstanding advancement in English by KG understudies; and Outstanding individual and social improvement at the secondary school level including conduct, dispositions, and hard working attitude.
The 2011/12 KHDA report highlighted a need to give careful consideration to kids with extraordinary needs – a note additionally on its 2012/2013 report. This is being tended to. At present 2% of the understudy body (2014) are perceived as having some from of SEN necessity and the school has as of late started a bolster group for SEN understudies. The school had connected with an outer supplier for this who give "broad consideration" of understudies with SEN in standard lessons. Educators' abilities in separation have not yet however achieved the purpose of having the capacity to address the issues of all learners.
As a suggestion, the school needs to improve the utilization of innovation to bolster adapting, especially as an instrument to test high and low achievers.
The school has great offices. Classrooms are outfitted with PCs, shrewd sheets and projectors. School offices additionally incorporate science labs, PC labs, a music room, workmanship room, petition rooms, libraries, therapeutic center, flask, and open air play area and play territories.
School expenses run from 16,000 to 24,600 AED every year relying upon the understudy's review year – great esteem contrasted with other Good evaluated US educational modules schools in Dubai.
The buzz
A school that appears to be all around enjoyed by its understudies, and guardians – and in practically meet measure the educators at the school. We have not got enough reactions yet to the WSA School Survey to remark on mentalities to scholarly execution, or criticism to guardians.
Green Field Community School
Taaleem claimed Greenfield Community School (GCS) is a K-12 school situated in Dubai Investment Park, Dubai. The school was built up in September 2007 and offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. It is a "Worldwide Baccalaureate World Continuum School".
The "continuum" is utilized to depict the structure of three consolidated projects, which can be actualized from prekindergarten through review 12. All the more particularly, a continuum school will offer the IB Primary Years Program (ages 3 through 12), IB Middle Years Program (ages 11 through 16) and the IB Diploma Program (ages 16 through 19). GCS is IB totally.
Something WSA especially likes is that Greenfield Community School likewise offers the IB Career Certificate (IBCC). The IBCC is an instruction structure for understudies matured 16 to 19 consolidating the" vision and instructive standards of the IB into a program custom-made for understudies who wish to take part in profession related learning". It gives "scholarly and down to earth establishment to bolster both their further reviews and concentrated preparing, along these lines guaranteeing their achievement in the workforce".
The IB is an undeniably famous decision as an educational programs, noted for its more prominent expansiveness than, for instance, A' Levels. It has as much cash as A' Levels with UK college applications, and, seemingly, more esteem for applications to colleges in the U.S. furthermore, mainland Europe.
GCS had its first graduating class of 13 understudies in 2012, and its second in 2013. Its understudies have been acknowledged at colleges in North American, the United Kingdom and the UAE.
See the WSA Q&A with Greenfield Community School here.
GCS presently comprises of 1116 understudies with more than 120 showing staff, four fifths of whom hold an instructing capability. Understudies are assembled in 52 classes with littler numbers in Grade 11 and Grade 12 Classes; which gathers together to a proportion of under 10 understudies for every educator, and 21 understudies in every classroom. Genuine class sizes go from 20 to 25 understudies for every class. These are little classroom sizes – characteristic of an IB based school.
The school's understudy body is spoken to by more than 80 nationalities.
The school does not seem to distribute the consequences of its understudies for IB examinations, something WSA firmly urges all schools to do. Exam achievement is a key criteria guardians utilize while picking a school.
Following three years of a KHDA "Decent" evaluating, in 2011-2012 Greenfield Community School slipped to a review rating of 'Adequate', a rating that proceeded into the 2012/13 assessment year. The KHDA 2011/12 report noticed the school had encountered fast development, and that it had presented another initiative structure, sharing obligations crosswise over subject and grade pioneers.
The school has since balanced out, enhanced, and is presently again appraised Good by the KHDA (2014). This is its second most astounding evaluation.
Key issues for Greenfield amid this period had been posts not filled, while other key staff needed adequate time to "fill in" and reinforce the checking of instructing and learning. Administration had been great, however constrained by the absence of direct representation of guardians. There were worries with the Mid Year Program (Grades 6 to 10) with a note that the educational programs "expected to enhance, and instructors given more opportunity to make those upgrades". In the last scholastic year however there have been changes in a scope of subjects in different parts of the school, eminently in English and arithmetic in KG and MYP, and in science in MYP. There have additionally been upgrades in instructing, learning and evaluation in MYP and DP. School self-assessment has likewise made strides.
The school still needs facilitate change in English in PYP and in DP composing and creation; in science in DP; and in arithmetic in thinking and critical thinking all through the school.
As a school Greenfield is presently set apart by solid organizations between key partners; records remarkable accomplishment in both arithmetic and Islamic values in KG; shows exceptional moral obligation and group and ecological duty in KG and PYP. Understudies are said to assume liability for and indicate freedom in their learning. There is remarkable educational modules outline in DP and nature of support in MYP and the DP.
Did you realize that Greenfield Community School has its own particular data application? In case you're a parent of the school it might be downloaded onto your desktop or portable. More information here.
Offices incorporate two swimming pools, theater, outline innovation, data innovation and science research facilities, dramatization, music and workmanship studios, two libraries, tennis courts, recreation center, sports field, shaded outside play zones and indoor play regions, two cafeterias. GCS sits on more than 10 sections of land of land.
Criticism to WhichSchoolAdvisor.com is prevalently positive. The school makes it simple for guardians – youngsters anticipate going to class. Guardians appear to be sure with respect to the advance and accomplishment made by their kids. More underneath in "the buzz".
Starting 2014 the expenses for Greenfield Community School extend from 38,000 AED every year for KG understudies to 70,000 AED every year for review 12 understudies – which puts the school in the exceptional end of the Dubai instruction advertise.
The Buzz
Guardians are for the most part content with the nature of the instruction, and with the offices the school gives. They, alongside its understudies, additionally welcome the school's solid group ethic and also the work it does to construct singular certainty and quality. A few however feel that collaboration and cooperating is to the detriment of an aggressive soul that may drive better execution.
There are the normal Dubai tuition based school grumblings of charges being too high, and excessively visit requires "extra" installments for non center exercises which guardians accept ought to be shrouded in the school expense.
The "continuum" is utilized to depict the structure of three consolidated projects, which can be actualized from prekindergarten through review 12. All the more particularly, a continuum school will offer the IB Primary Years Program (ages 3 through 12), IB Middle Years Program (ages 11 through 16) and the IB Diploma Program (ages 16 through 19). GCS is IB totally.
Something WSA especially likes is that Greenfield Community School likewise offers the IB Career Certificate (IBCC). The IBCC is an instruction structure for understudies matured 16 to 19 consolidating the" vision and instructive standards of the IB into a program custom-made for understudies who wish to take part in profession related learning". It gives "scholarly and down to earth establishment to bolster both their further reviews and concentrated preparing, along these lines guaranteeing their achievement in the workforce".
The IB is an undeniably famous decision as an educational programs, noted for its more prominent expansiveness than, for instance, A' Levels. It has as much cash as A' Levels with UK college applications, and, seemingly, more esteem for applications to colleges in the U.S. furthermore, mainland Europe.
GCS had its first graduating class of 13 understudies in 2012, and its second in 2013. Its understudies have been acknowledged at colleges in North American, the United Kingdom and the UAE.
See the WSA Q&A with Greenfield Community School here.
GCS presently comprises of 1116 understudies with more than 120 showing staff, four fifths of whom hold an instructing capability. Understudies are assembled in 52 classes with littler numbers in Grade 11 and Grade 12 Classes; which gathers together to a proportion of under 10 understudies for every educator, and 21 understudies in every classroom. Genuine class sizes go from 20 to 25 understudies for every class. These are little classroom sizes – characteristic of an IB based school.
The school's understudy body is spoken to by more than 80 nationalities.
The school does not seem to distribute the consequences of its understudies for IB examinations, something WSA firmly urges all schools to do. Exam achievement is a key criteria guardians utilize while picking a school.
Following three years of a KHDA "Decent" evaluating, in 2011-2012 Greenfield Community School slipped to a review rating of 'Adequate', a rating that proceeded into the 2012/13 assessment year. The KHDA 2011/12 report noticed the school had encountered fast development, and that it had presented another initiative structure, sharing obligations crosswise over subject and grade pioneers.
The school has since balanced out, enhanced, and is presently again appraised Good by the KHDA (2014). This is its second most astounding evaluation.
Key issues for Greenfield amid this period had been posts not filled, while other key staff needed adequate time to "fill in" and reinforce the checking of instructing and learning. Administration had been great, however constrained by the absence of direct representation of guardians. There were worries with the Mid Year Program (Grades 6 to 10) with a note that the educational programs "expected to enhance, and instructors given more opportunity to make those upgrades". In the last scholastic year however there have been changes in a scope of subjects in different parts of the school, eminently in English and arithmetic in KG and MYP, and in science in MYP. There have additionally been upgrades in instructing, learning and evaluation in MYP and DP. School self-assessment has likewise made strides.
The school still needs facilitate change in English in PYP and in DP composing and creation; in science in DP; and in arithmetic in thinking and critical thinking all through the school.
As a school Greenfield is presently set apart by solid organizations between key partners; records remarkable accomplishment in both arithmetic and Islamic values in KG; shows exceptional moral obligation and group and ecological duty in KG and PYP. Understudies are said to assume liability for and indicate freedom in their learning. There is remarkable educational modules outline in DP and nature of support in MYP and the DP.
Did you realize that Greenfield Community School has its own particular data application? In case you're a parent of the school it might be downloaded onto your desktop or portable. More information here.
Offices incorporate two swimming pools, theater, outline innovation, data innovation and science research facilities, dramatization, music and workmanship studios, two libraries, tennis courts, recreation center, sports field, shaded outside play zones and indoor play regions, two cafeterias. GCS sits on more than 10 sections of land of land.
Criticism to WhichSchoolAdvisor.com is prevalently positive. The school makes it simple for guardians – youngsters anticipate going to class. Guardians appear to be sure with respect to the advance and accomplishment made by their kids. More underneath in "the buzz".
Starting 2014 the expenses for Greenfield Community School extend from 38,000 AED every year for KG understudies to 70,000 AED every year for review 12 understudies – which puts the school in the exceptional end of the Dubai instruction advertise.
The Buzz
Guardians are for the most part content with the nature of the instruction, and with the offices the school gives. They, alongside its understudies, additionally welcome the school's solid group ethic and also the work it does to construct singular certainty and quality. A few however feel that collaboration and cooperating is to the detriment of an aggressive soul that may drive better execution.
There are the normal Dubai tuition based school grumblings of charges being too high, and excessively visit requires "extra" installments for non center exercises which guardians accept ought to be shrouded in the school expense.
Gems World Academy
Diamonds World Academy, Dubai is a private Pre K-12 worldwide school situated in Al Barsha, Dubai. The school was initially settled in September 2007 by GEMS Education, in spite of the fact that its first year of operation was in 2008. It is an unadulterated International Baccalaureate based school.
The school is currently running at full limit with roughly 2050 understudies, and has plainly discovered its specialty, developing unequivocally for various years. The school has 185 educators giving it an instructor to understudy proportion of 1:11 – one of the best in the UAE.
Instructor turnover is abnormally high – or was in the last scholarly year, running at 35%. This is 10-15% higher than the Dubai normal and will be a zone of concern ought to the rate stay at a similar level into the following year. As indicated by the last insights gave by the KHDA, all educators have scholarly degrees.
GWA has an extremely differing, worldwide group. While the biggest understudy nationalities are from India, the USA and UK each is particularly a minority – the most noteworthy speaks to around 9% of aggregate numbers. More than 90 nationalities are spoken to inside the school, making it a standout amongst the most demographically differing and really universal schools in the Emirate. This – says the school – encourages global mindedness, a center part of the IB educational modules.
Diamonds World Academy, Dubai is approved by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) to offer every one of the three IB programs – Primary Years Program, Middle Years Program and Diploma Program. The Academy is additionally an individual from the Council of International Schools (CIS) and was authorize amid the 2012-2013 school year.
For 2015-2016 the school got the KHDA assessment rating of Good, the 6th year consecutively it has accomplished this rating. Note however that in 2015/16 the KHDA included two additional evaluations – including a Very Good review. Basically GWA no longer has the second most elevated rating however the third most elevated.
Issues lie in more senior phases of the school. Diamonds World Academy's kindergarten and primary school are both considered "Exceptional".
GWA Dubai has yet to discharge any IB comes about. Its accomplishments page on its Web website points of interest GEMs' triumphs for the most part. This is an extensive strategy as opposed to an individual school based one. It is additionally an abnormal choice we accept for a gathering that has each motivation to advance and talk about scholarly victories with the setting that GEMs Education schools are comprehensive, not specific.
As per the school's most recent KHDA report it needs to enhance the "nature of instructing and learning in the MYP and DP to give higher accomplishment and advance, in any event showing genuine outcomes at IB are not on an indistinguishable level from other International Baccalaureate schools in the emirate. Fulfillment really fell in science in the last scholastic year to palatable in general. Diamonds World Academy Dubai likewise needs to advance "informative ability in Arabic as an extra dialect and keep on developing Islamic training and Arabic in order to offer a superior affair for understudies."
The school is extremely rich in offices: a 50m Olympic estimated secured swimming pool alongside a lesser pool, tennis and ball courts, skateboarding park, completely outfitted recreation center with wellness focus, junior exercise center, indoor shake climbing divider, theater, orchestra focus, green screen room, completely prepared music recording studio and a peace plant. Amazingly, GEMS World Academy additionally comes furnished with a best in class planetarium utilized by all understudies and staff for all subjects, not just space science. It is an extraordinary resource that supplements the conventional reviews and creates a high determination 360 degree perspective of the night sky with more than 300,000 stars inside its database. The school utilizes it to urge students to learn and investigate about the close planetary system, star groups of stars, and profound space questions through the intuitive show and additionally the chance to visit antiquated sanctuaries and plunge with whales investigating life submerged in addition to other things.
These sorts of offices should be paid for obviously. This is a school unmistakably focused at guardians who need everything for their kids, and can stand to pay. Expenses (starting 2015-2016) territory from 59320 AED every year for pre-kindergarten understudies to just shy of 103,000 AED every year for review 12 understudies. This makes it,with Repton, the most costly school that we have checked on, albeit both look set to be obscured by the forthcoming GEMS Nations school in the up and coming year.
The buzz
Comprehensively, enormously positive. Guardians rave over how congenial the school is/educators are. Many love the educational programs (notwithstanding you have to do the exploration on IB to check whether it fits with the requirements of your youngster). Educating is broadly commended – just like the school's offices. The school is costly, however guardians we addressed did not raise this as an issue. At the point when posed the question: Does this School offer Good Value, the most widely recognized answer was "Halfway Agree". Guardians would all around prescribe the school.
The school is currently running at full limit with roughly 2050 understudies, and has plainly discovered its specialty, developing unequivocally for various years. The school has 185 educators giving it an instructor to understudy proportion of 1:11 – one of the best in the UAE.
Instructor turnover is abnormally high – or was in the last scholarly year, running at 35%. This is 10-15% higher than the Dubai normal and will be a zone of concern ought to the rate stay at a similar level into the following year. As indicated by the last insights gave by the KHDA, all educators have scholarly degrees.
GWA has an extremely differing, worldwide group. While the biggest understudy nationalities are from India, the USA and UK each is particularly a minority – the most noteworthy speaks to around 9% of aggregate numbers. More than 90 nationalities are spoken to inside the school, making it a standout amongst the most demographically differing and really universal schools in the Emirate. This – says the school – encourages global mindedness, a center part of the IB educational modules.
Diamonds World Academy, Dubai is approved by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) to offer every one of the three IB programs – Primary Years Program, Middle Years Program and Diploma Program. The Academy is additionally an individual from the Council of International Schools (CIS) and was authorize amid the 2012-2013 school year.
For 2015-2016 the school got the KHDA assessment rating of Good, the 6th year consecutively it has accomplished this rating. Note however that in 2015/16 the KHDA included two additional evaluations – including a Very Good review. Basically GWA no longer has the second most elevated rating however the third most elevated.
Issues lie in more senior phases of the school. Diamonds World Academy's kindergarten and primary school are both considered "Exceptional".
GWA Dubai has yet to discharge any IB comes about. Its accomplishments page on its Web website points of interest GEMs' triumphs for the most part. This is an extensive strategy as opposed to an individual school based one. It is additionally an abnormal choice we accept for a gathering that has each motivation to advance and talk about scholarly victories with the setting that GEMs Education schools are comprehensive, not specific.
As per the school's most recent KHDA report it needs to enhance the "nature of instructing and learning in the MYP and DP to give higher accomplishment and advance, in any event showing genuine outcomes at IB are not on an indistinguishable level from other International Baccalaureate schools in the emirate. Fulfillment really fell in science in the last scholastic year to palatable in general. Diamonds World Academy Dubai likewise needs to advance "informative ability in Arabic as an extra dialect and keep on developing Islamic training and Arabic in order to offer a superior affair for understudies."
The school is extremely rich in offices: a 50m Olympic estimated secured swimming pool alongside a lesser pool, tennis and ball courts, skateboarding park, completely outfitted recreation center with wellness focus, junior exercise center, indoor shake climbing divider, theater, orchestra focus, green screen room, completely prepared music recording studio and a peace plant. Amazingly, GEMS World Academy additionally comes furnished with a best in class planetarium utilized by all understudies and staff for all subjects, not just space science. It is an extraordinary resource that supplements the conventional reviews and creates a high determination 360 degree perspective of the night sky with more than 300,000 stars inside its database. The school utilizes it to urge students to learn and investigate about the close planetary system, star groups of stars, and profound space questions through the intuitive show and additionally the chance to visit antiquated sanctuaries and plunge with whales investigating life submerged in addition to other things.
These sorts of offices should be paid for obviously. This is a school unmistakably focused at guardians who need everything for their kids, and can stand to pay. Expenses (starting 2015-2016) territory from 59320 AED every year for pre-kindergarten understudies to just shy of 103,000 AED every year for review 12 understudies. This makes it,with Repton, the most costly school that we have checked on, albeit both look set to be obscured by the forthcoming GEMS Nations school in the up and coming year.
The buzz
Comprehensively, enormously positive. Guardians rave over how congenial the school is/educators are. Many love the educational programs (notwithstanding you have to do the exploration on IB to check whether it fits with the requirements of your youngster). Educating is broadly commended – just like the school's offices. The school is costly, however guardians we addressed did not raise this as an issue. At the point when posed the question: Does this School offer Good Value, the most widely recognized answer was "Halfway Agree". Guardians would all around prescribe the school.
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