Al Ittihad National private School in Abu Dhabi has an exceptionally cooperative and family-like atmosphere, and our staff takes great pride in providing a safe and secure learning environment, while at the same time offering a wide array of exciting and challenging academic programs.
We have wide-ranging options of curricular and extracurricular activities. Our entire staff is dedicated to ascertain a school environment that allows our students to thrive and grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially. Professional Learning Community is our middle name, and our school vision and mission clarify our purposes and highlight our educational philosophy – which is the student as a LEARNER and as a HUMAN BEING.
We believe this is the foundation for you to consider us as the right choice as education providers for your sons and daughters.
Guided by our vision, “A Generation of Heritage Guardians and Global Thinkers”, Al Ittihad National Private School of Abu Dhabi strives to engage and inspire each student body to reach their fullest potential.
Our school offers a K-12 American-based curriculum that is aligned to internationally recognized standards and benchmarks. This comprehensive framework for teaching and learning is supported by a rich variety of instructional practice and infused with ongoing assessment and feedback that allows for individual growth and success. At INPS, we strive to value, inspire, support each student within our community and empower them with the 21st century skills to excel in their achievement and attainment.
Our curricular program is continually reviewed and refined to embrace the best of what we know about teaching and learning. International mindedness is embedded into our curriculum and instruction to develop global thinkers for future.
English is the language of instruction in all subject matters except for Arabic, Islamic Studies, and Arabic Social Studies. All our students are involved and encouraged to participate in advisory and co-curricular programs consisting of an affluent array of activities that form the backbone of our curriculum. Teachers at our school are mere facilitators and mediators of learning as well as creators and implementers of student-centered activities and projects. Teachers incessantly help students to continuously assess their academic progress and consider feedback an integral part of the teaching-learning process. The teacher's relationship with students is a nurturing one, reinforced by the school support system to grant student's intellectual, affective, and physical growth. Cooperative learning, critical thinking, learning centers, employing smart learning in teaching, and empowering learners all guarantee life-long learning at our school.
Assessment at AIPS is an ongoing process used to inform instructional practice, monitor student progress, and make curricular decisions. A continuous formative assessment feedback is utilized to differentiate and target instruction while summative assessments evaluate student attainment of learning objectives. External assessments such as the MAP tests, TIMMS, PIRL, TOEFL, IELTS, EMSA, ICDL and SAT assessments provide our community with valuable information for gauging effectiveness and determining future directions.
Learning and developing is a continuous process for our teachers too. Our experienced teachers participate in regional and international professional development experiences to build expertise and effectiveness. As a member of AdvancED, ADEK, and NEASC, AIPS enjoys opportunities throughout the school year for professional learning and collaboration. However, the school also works on providing teachers with in house professional learning to share best practices, explore and implement instructional strategies and assessing the impact of modifications done on student performance and achievement.
Summary of ADEK Inspection
The school offers a good quality of education. The principal, her senior management team and subject coordinators have a shared commitment to raise standards through continuous improvement. The behaviour of girls is good around the school and in lessons. Boys’ behaviour has improved since the last inspection and is now good in almost all lessons and around the school. Relationships and attitudes to study are very good and learning skills, including creative thinking,innovation and entrepreneurship, are strengths of the school. Attainment overall is good and close to age-related expectations, but the analysis of data by the school in relation to external benchmarks needs to be strengthened. The school provides a dedicated special educational needs (SEN) co-ordinator who provides additional support to students. The school identifies gifted and talented students but does not reflect their specific needs in lesson planning. Teaching is good overall with few examples of very good and outstanding teaching. Students have a very good understanding of Islamic values and a very good appreciation of UAE culture and history. This is evident in assemblies and in the school’s participation in the ‘My Identity’ programme. The school is well maintained and resourced and provides a very good learning environment for students.
School’s strengths
· The quality of educational provision in kindergarten
· Development and understanding of Islamic values and UAE culture and traditions
· The development of learning skills, in particular entrepreneurship, Innovation and critical thinking....