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.