Al Shurooq Private School
Executive Summary
Al Shurooq Private School provides a Good quality of education, as affirmed by its latest inspection for the 2023-2024 academic year. The school follows the Ministry of Education curriculum and is committed to fostering academic success and holistic student development.
Students demonstrate above-curriculum attainment and better than expected progress in mathematics and science across all cycles, with English progress accelerating in Cycles 2 and 3. They exhibit positive and responsible attitudes, strong self-reliance, and a profound appreciation for Islamic values and Emirati culture.
Teaching quality is steadily strengthening, supported by effective use of data and a curriculum designed to prepare students for the future. The school maintains secure safeguarding systems, promotes healthy lifestyles, and benefits from committed leadership that ensures high staff morale and strong parent engagement.
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Al Shurooq Private School Overall Rating
Good for 2+ consecutive years
Dubai Focus Areas
These three pillars represent the Dubai education authority's priorities: ensuring inclusive practices, prioritizing student wellbeing, and meeting UAE National Agenda targets.
The school's leaders are committed to inclusive education, with an experienced inclusion leader providing clear direction. Diagnostic tools are used to identify learning barriers, gifts, and talents, and most teachers effectively modify tasks to meet students' needs. IEPs have measurable targets, enabling the majority of students of determination to make better than expected progress. Students of DeterminationIEPs
The overall quality of wellbeing provision and outcomes is good, driven by senior leaders' practical vision and a knowledgeable school counsellor. Periodic surveys inform teacher training and student activities, with students, staff, and parents engaged in developing provision. Extra-curricular programs, particularly in music, are prominent features. Wellbeing visionExtra-curricular programmesSchool Council
The school's achievement of National Agenda Parameter standards is good, with outstanding benchmark scores for whole school and Emirati students in mathematics and science. While English scores are weaker, the curriculum is successfully adapted to improve international assessment outcomes, leading to improved attainment in mathematics and science for all students. International assessmentsEmirati studentsMathematics and Science
Key Highlights
Standout achievements identified by the inspection team that distinguish this school.
Improved Attainment
The school has seen improved attainment in mathematics across all phases and in science for Kindergarten and Cycle 1 students.
Strong Personal Development
Students demonstrate positive and responsible attitudes, courtesy, self-reliance, and respond well to feedback, fostering safe and orderly learning environments.
Cultural & Islamic Understanding
Students show a profound appreciation for Islamic values and a comprehensive understanding of Emirati traditions, culture, and history.
Social Responsibility & Innovation
Students in Cycles 2 and 3 exhibit strong social responsibility, actively supporting peers and engaging in innovative STEAM projects and global sustainability challenges.
Academic Performance Breakdown
Leadership & Management
Effectiveness of school governance, strategic planning, and leadership capacity to drive continuous improvement.
Leadership Approach
Led by the Principal, school leaders are committed to students’ academic success, wellbeing, and inclusive learning, fostering positive communication and high staff morale. They use systematic self-evaluation to drive improvement, with almost all previous recommendations implemented, showing sustained improvements over time.
Inspection Findings
Students' Outcomes
Students consistently achieve above curriculum standards and make better than expected progress in mathematics and science. In English, progress is more rapid in Cycles 2 and 3, while Islamic Education and Arabic performances are strongest in KG. Students also display positive attitudes, self-reliance, and a deep appreciation for Islamic values.
Personal Development
Students exhibit positive and responsible attitudes, courtesy, and self-reliance, contributing to safe learning environments. They show sensitivity to peers' needs, understand healthy lifestyles, and actively participate in cultural events, demonstrating strong social responsibility and innovation skills in STEAM projects, particularly in Cycles 2 and 3.
Teaching Quality
Teaching for effective learning is steadily improving across all cycles, with teachers using skilled questioning to check understanding and promote critical thinking. Lessons are adjusted to ensure expected progress, and the school effectively uses progress tracking sheets to inform teaching strategies and build on students' prior accomplishments.
Protection & Care
The school has secure systems for a safe learning environment, including comprehensive safeguarding policies and effective bus transportation. A medical team supports healthy lifestyles, and relationships between teachers and students are mutually respectful. Procedures for identifying students of determination are effective, though support for gifted and talented students requires enhancement.
Areas for Development
- •Implement consistently high-quality teaching to meet the needs of different groups of students, especially those learning English.
- •Strengthen the middle leaders' skills and capacity, empowering them to understand and implement strategies for school improvement.
- •Enable the governing board to serve effectively as critical friends, actively challenging and supporting school leaders at enhancing the school’s overall performance.
- •Improve the school's learning environment and specialist facilities to foster conducive settings for highly effective teaching and learning.
- •Improve students’ skills for referring to Qur’anic verses and Hadith for evidence of new concepts, rulings and values.
- •Extend students’ breadth of vocabulary and sentence structure, especially when responding to readings.
- •Improve students extended free and guided writing in Cycles 1 to 3.
- •Improve the reading of younger students by ensuring that there is a consistent approach by all teachers.
- •Build on the high-quality assessments that students receive in some classes by ensuring that all teachers do the same.
- •Introduce more opportunities for students to apply their mathematical understanding to their lives.
- •Ensure that all students are given work that better matches their potential.
- •Establish well-structured programmes which improve students' scientific research skills.
- •Enable students to be innovative and enterprising by providing more opportunities to take responsibility for decisions when carrying out tasks.
- •Enrich students' cultural awareness by encouraging them to find out about traditions, literature, and arts from a wider range of countries.
- •Ensure that a greater number of students in Cycle 1 have opportunities to develop their own innovative projects.
- •Provide students with more opportunities to develop learning skills by requiring them to take greater responsibility.
- •Improve the written assessments for students in Cycle 1 and the KG so that all understand how they can improve their work.
- •Implement more meaningful cross-curricular links in the English curriculum, particularly in Cycles 1 and 2.
- •Ensure that extra-curricular activities enable maximum participation by students.
- •Improve risk assessments in the Kindergarten.
- •Ensure that the importance of attendance is actively understood by parents and students, to address patterns of low attendance at particular times during the year.
- •Ensure that all teachers apply the accommodations in the IEPs in order to meet students’ needs.
- •Identify and spread existing strong practice in middle leadership.
- •Improve the school’s national and international partnerships to enrich students' learning experiences.
- •Enhance the roles of governors in the school.
- •Provide more personalised professional development for teachers, based on their individual needs.