Latifa School for Girls

Latifa School for Girls was built up in 1982 by H.H. Sheik Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, previous Ruler of Dubai, under the aegis of the Government of Dubai. From its initiation, a key objective of the school has been to join the best of British instructive practice inside an educational modules that advances UAE qualities and customs, nearby worldwide mindfulness. To this end a British educational modules, changed to suit the social setting and individual needs of understudies, is mixed with Arabic and Islamic Studies, in accordance with UAE Ministry educational modules. Understudies sit GCSE, AS and A level examinations, and in addition Ministry-acknowledged Arabic and Islamic studies examinations. All understudies leave Latifa School bilingual. The Headmistress and a large portion of the staff are British, with an Arabic and Islamic Studies Department staffed by very much qualified Arab nationals. 

The School has a built up notoriety in the group for customizing figuring out how to understudies' needs. Each educator is relied upon to: 

§ Encourage elevated requirements in all parts of school life; 

§ Provide ideal learning conditions for all understudies; 

§ Support and propel understudies, instructors and other school workers; 

§ Promote a school society which is university, glad, deliberate and beneficial; 

§ Pursue their own proficient improvement and add to the advancement of the school; 

§ Engage in learning-focused meeting and discourse, both inside and past the school. 

Latifa is a through-school for young ladies between the ages of 3½ and 18, possessing two contiguous locales. All understudies are UAE nationals and the admission is 2-frame and blended capacity. The admission is to a great extent static with most understudies joining the school in Foundation School and proceeding through to Year 12 or 13. In accordance with neighborhood government schools, most understudies leave Latifa toward the end of Year 12 and go ahead to a 4-year American-style University course, principally in the UAE, additionally in the USA. A little number of understudies every year remain focused complete A Levels in Year 13, trailed by college study in UK, USA, Canada or Australia. Whilst the School places understudies in top UK and USA colleges, it additionally teaches those with learning troubles and is focused on giving a top of the line training to every one of its understudies, whatever their capacities. Learning Support is given where required and an option educational modules is offered where this is in the understudy's best advantages. 

The School's hierarchical structure fuses the Leadership Team (LT), Heads of Department and Heads of Year in the auxiliary school, and Phase Leaders and Subject Coordinators in the grade school. The LT comprises of the Headmistress, Deputy Headmistress, Senior Teacher, Head of Primary and Assistant Head of Primary. 

Whilst Heads of Department and Subject Coordinators are essentially worried with scholastic matters, and Heads of Year and Phase Leaders with peaceful, there is unmistakably a cover between the two; all staff are required to cooperate to the greatest advantage of the understudies. The school likewise has two school nurture, a vocations officer and two examination officers to give further backing and direction to understudies. 

Specific managerial, media assets, IT system, library, providing food and upkeep faculty at both locales bolster the work of the instructing staff. 

At Latifa School we trust the nature of instructing and learning and the level of individual consideration and consideration which every understudy gets are similarly critical; both are given a high need. We are focused on working in association with guardians and understudies as laid out in our Home-School Agreement. The School's vision bolsters these points: 

The Curriculum 

Auxiliary 

Most understudies enter the auxiliary school from Latifa's essential area and a strong move program bolsters their turn. The English National Curriculum, changed for connection, is taken after all through the auxiliary school. Latifa School offers a wide scope of discretionary subjects at GCSE; including ICT, music, business thinks about, French, Italian, Spanish, sustenance innovation, materials innovation, craftsmanship, history, PE and geology. Examination results contrast positively and those accomplished by other comparable schools, with by and large more than 60% of understudies achieving 5 grades A* to C, including English and Maths, at GCSE level. 

Music is offered to entire classes in KS3 and as a choice in KS4. Singular direction is likewise given to intrigued understudies, who are urged to work towards ABRSM examinations. 

In Year 12 understudies select from a scope of AS level subjects and extra GCSE level subjects, taking into account their capacity levels and future study arranges. AS subjects on offer incorporate science, science, maths, material science, English writing, business thinks about, craftsmanship, sustenance innovation, materials innovation, French, Italian, Spanish, music, travel and tourism, ICT, topography, history and PE, contingent upon interest. A Key Skills course likewise keeps running as a major aspect of the Year 12 educational modules where understudies learn significant useful and interpersonal life abilities. Understudies aiming to continue to tertiary training in the United Kingdom, United States or somewhere else abroad have the alternative of proceeding with their AS studies up to A level in Year 13. 

The School's professions program starts in Year 9, when guardians and understudies are effectively occupied with talks prompting the decision of GCSE alternatives. In Year 10 understudies attempt a work experience week. In Year 11 meetings are held to talk about post-GCSE expectations, and a college reasonable aides those in Year 11 and 12 on their decision of college. As a component of a professions reasonable, outside speakers, including previous understudies, come into examine their own vocation decisions and encounters. In Year 12 and Year 13, when suitable, help is furnished with the finishing of college passage structures and deride meetings are directed. The vocations program profits by a library of specific writing, the utilization of programming projects and the web 

Offices 

Latifa School for Girls involves two destinations, which are nearby each other. The auxiliary school was initially implicit 1983, with extra structures included through the span of the following 15 years. The grade school started life as a little annexe inside the current optional school however rapidly developed and a different essential segment was implicit 2002. 

Auxiliary 

The Secondary area is all around resourced and involves an extensive site with playing fields, tennis and netball courts set in arranged greenhouses. Science is educated in five all around resourced labs and is upheld by two specialized staff. The craftsmanship division has two broadly useful rooms, and two uniquely prepared rooms, including earthenware production offices. The innovation office incorporates a nourishment innovation room and a materials room. In music, understudies have admittance to an all around prepared music office, including rehearse rooms and music innovation offices. Showing rooms are outfitted with intuitive whiteboards and projectors. The auxiliary school has eight PC suites, two iPad banks and four portable workstation banks, accessible to book for class use. Another far reaching wifi system has been introduced alongside redesigned foundation. 

In the P.E. office there is a secured swimming pool, extensive soundproofed sports corridor, wellness/move studio, two squash courts and a cardio rec center. The school has in-house providing food in a reason fabricated kitchen office, joined to a feasting corridor where snacks and hot suppers are served. Notwithstanding subject-particular and universally useful showing offices, the optional school profits by a very much loaded library holding more than 100,000 assets, including Arabic and remote dialect writings. The get together lobby, complete with sound, light and projection frameworks, is utilized for gatherings, shows, creations, guardians' gatherings and other entire school occasions. 

System faculty bolster and energize the mix of ICT over the educational programs and there is an all around staffed media assets focus containing reprographic, printing and restricting hardware. 

Essential 

The Primary segment has phenomenal assets housed in reason fabricated premises, opened in September 2002. It possesses a huge site with playing fields, a secured swimming pool, and tennis and netball courts in arranged patio nurseries. There are 4 associating structures lodging key stage 1, key stage 2, performing expressions and organization. All classrooms have intelligent whiteboards, and projectors, a rug region, wet territory, bathrooms and vast shared storerooms. E also, a bookable ICT suite is accessible for class use. In every key stage working there is an expansive focal region, which has been produced for organized exercises. 

The organization building, joining the two key stage structures, contains a very much resourced library, a supplication room and a recently overhauled ICT suite for pro ICT lessons. There are system work force to bolster and support the mix of ICT over the educational programs and an all around staffed media assets focus containing reprographic, printing and restricting hardware. 

The performing expressions building has a secured swimming pool, substantial soundproofed sports corridor, move studio and music room with a connected sound-sealed practice room. There is additionally a gathering corridor, complete with sound and light frameworks, and a projection framework for PC use.