Deira International School

Deira International School is situated in the new piece of old Dubai – Festival City, and is right now home to a little more than 1,596 understudies (up 100 on a year ago and 300 on the last two scholarly years) from a blended scope of nationalities (more than 80 altogether), including a solid nearby nearness (around 13% of the understudy body are Emirati). There are 153 full-time instructors, including the Director and senior administration group.

All educators in the school have proper instructing capabilities.

The educational programs depends on the English National Curriculum with the International Baccalaureate (IB) and professional courses at the post-16 phase. Understudies take the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) toward the end of Year 11 and the IB Diploma or Certificate toward the end of Year 13.

The school asserts a greatest classroom size of 26 – which would put it mid-table for Dubai schools taking after the English framework.

As long back as 2013, we had noted in our survey that Deira International was "a school not content with its Good evaluating". It has demonstrated us right. The school has now gotten to be one of a little gathering of schools positioned Very Good – another KHDA grade offered interestingly this year. It puts Deira International simply outside the level one positioned Outstanding Dubai and Abu Dhabi schools.

Solid administration has been at the heart of the story since 2012/13 when the KHDA noticed "a solid drive for development, with the initiative group and showing staff sharing the vision and determination to guarantee all understudies did and in addition they could'. This was resounded in 2013/14 with "school pioneers and all staff work[ing] to a great degree difficult to address issues emerging from the past investigation and had been fruitful in taking the school further along the way of change." In its most recent report the KHDA takes note of a "striking vision" and "clear heading" set by the administering board, in organization with the executive and senior pioneers, which is bringing about "managed change in the school's general adequacy".

The school Director has been set up since January 2012. Jeff Smith had been the Principal of a scholastically effective, particular punctuation school in the United Kingdom for a long time – Guernsey Grammar School and Sixth Form Center who left the post in August 2011. Beforehand Mr Smith had been the "Agent of the British Education Department" in Indonesia.

For the IB Diploma the normal evaluation of DIS understudies was 34 in 2015 – one of the most elevated midpoints in the UAE, and 5 focuses over the world normal. A 34 point evaluation would be adequate for most Red Brick colleges in the United Kingdom.

Three understudies accomplished +40 focuses, 10% of the IB partner.

At IGCSE results for 2015 were "the best ever recorded at the school". 71 % of all evaluations were A*/A/B grades. DIS scored 21% A* grades contrasted with the UK 6.7 % A* grades. 47% of all evaluations were A*/A beating the school's past best of 38% in 2014. Somewhere in the range of 92% of understudies accomplished 5 A*-C grades including Mathematics and English.

You can discover Deira International School's outcomes in full here. The 2016 results ought to be included without further ado.

The KHDA notes remarkable instructing in the Foundation Stage with exceptional advancement in English, arithmetic and science. It takes note of the remarkable individual and social advancement of understudies as worldwide nationals and future pioneers. It likewise applauds the comprehensive ethos of the school that guarantees extraordinary look after all understudies.

There are regions to enhance, remarkably understudies' accomplishment in Arabic as a first dialect, in the auxiliary and post-16 stages, "by arranging and conveying lessons that ceaselessly draw in, persuade and test students".The school likewise needs to build the measure of exceptional instructing by giving preparing to upgrade the adequacy of showing colleagues, guaranteeing that learning innovations are utilized reliably well as a part of the essential years, raising instructors' desires of what understudies can accomplish in Islamic training, especially in the post-16 years and enhance the move from the Foundation Stage to Year 1 with the goal that kids make a consistent move into their next phase of training.

DIS offers a decent scope of after-school exercises. Extracurricular games incorporate young men's and young ladies' football, ball, rugby, tennis and swimming. A vocal and instrumental project offers a wide scope of musical study. Band, ensemble, move and craftsmanship projects are likewise offered alongside other scholastic and non-scholarly projects.

Note: Separate lessons for physical training are accommodated young men and young ladies from years 5 to 13.

The school sits on a 80,000 sq. m. grounds. Its first stage was finished in August 2005 and incorporates workmanship rooms, libraries, PC and science labs, vocal and instrumental music rooms, plan innovation workshops, business concentrates on focus, an indoor gym, a swimming pool and an expansive games field. The second stage included further classrooms, a media focus and a multipurpose corridor which will opened in 2013.

Charges for the school are on now on the high end of the range. The school has been raising charges each year at the upper end of the reach the KHDA permits – and surpassing them in a few years. Educational cost charges begin from 38,328 in EY1 and ascend to 77,222 AED in its Year 13 (2013/4 expenses).