Amity School
Executive Summary
Amity School L.L.C provides a Good quality of education, with particular improvements noted in key subjects in Middle and Secondary phases since the last inspection. The school fosters a very positive learning environment characterized by students' responsible attitudes, self-discipline, and respectful relationships.
Teaching quality is strong, with teachers demonstrating good subject knowledge and effective lesson planning, supported by quality resources and assessment systems. The curriculum effectively promotes a balance of knowledge and skills, building on prior achievement and adapting well to meet the needs of most students, including those of determination and gifted and talented learners. Student wellbeing is effectively monitored, with appreciation for the school counsellor's support.
Leadership, including the principal and senior leaders, exhibits a clear vision and has been successful in building a positive school community focused on improving student outcomes. They are innovative in their initiatives, though there is a need for more rigorous whole-school self-evaluation and oversight by governors. The school has secured improvements in students’ learning and development, with strong procedures for health, safety, and child protection.
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Amity School L.L.C 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 promotes an inclusive environment, effectively identifying the learning needs of students of determination and those with gifts and talents. Parents are closely involved and kept informed of their children's progress. While differentiation is generally appropriate, its consistency across classes needs improvement to ensure uniform engagement and outcomes. students of determinationdifferentiation
Wellbeing is a high priority, integrated into the school's ethos and culture, with strong leadership commitment. Stakeholders are regularly surveyed, showing high parent satisfaction, and students know how to seek help. The school promotes physical wellbeing and cyber safety, with students demonstrating increasing independence in managing their wellbeing. physical wellbeingcyber safety
The school has achieved very high 2021 PIRLS results, significantly above the center-point, and students consistently attain highly in ASSET and IBT international benchmarking tests. Leadership has a detailed action plan to improve preparation for external assessments and build reading literacy skills, focusing on reading for purpose and enjoyment. The school uses NGRT assessments to track reading development, showing positive impact on closing reading age gaps. PIRLSASSETIBTreading literacy
Key Highlights
Standout achievements identified by the inspection team that distinguish this school.
Improved Islamic Education
Progress in Islamic Education has improved to at least Good across all phases.
Strong English & Science
Students show Very Good achievement in English in KG, Middle, and Secondary, and Very Good attainment in science in Middle and Secondary.
Social Responsibility
Students exhibit a strong sense of social responsibility and a well-developed awareness of Islamic values.
Robust Safeguarding
Procedures for health, safety, and child protection are strong, with an appropriate focus on wellbeing.
Leadership Impact
School leaders have successfully secured improvements in students’ learning and development.
Academic Performance Breakdown
Overall achievement in English in KG, Middle and Secondary is a particular strength, alongside very good attainment in science in Middle and Secondary. Progress in Islamic Education has improved to at least Good in all phases. Learning skills are of high quality in Middle and Secondary.
Leadership & Management
Effectiveness of school governance, strategic planning, and leadership capacity to drive continuous improvement.
Leadership Approach
Leadership, at all levels, demonstrates a clear vision for the school's future, strongly supported by stakeholders, and is innovative in improving student outcomes. They effectively distribute leadership among skilled teams, fostering a positive school community with a common sense of purpose. While self-evaluation is systematic, its rigor and the oversight by governors require further enhancement.
Inspection Findings
Students' Outcomes
Students demonstrate good or better progress in most lessons, with particular strengths in English across KG, Middle, and Secondary, and very good attainment in science in upper phases. Learning skills are highly developed in Middle and Secondary, contributing to a very positive learning environment.
Personal Development
Students exhibit outstanding personal responsibility, very positive attitudes, and exemplary behavior, fostering respectful relationships. They have a strong work ethic, understand Islamic values, and are aware of Emirati and world cultures, actively participating in school and community projects.
Teaching Quality
Teachers possess strong subject knowledge and plan lessons effectively with clear objectives, utilizing good quality resources and learning technologies. While assessment systems track progress closely, the consistency of feedback and differentiation to meet all students' needs requires improvement, particularly in matching learning activities to diverse abilities.
Protection & Care
The school maintains outstanding health and safety standards, including robust child protection and safeguarding policies, regular maintenance, and comprehensive medical records. A strong ethos of mutual respect promotes a positive learning environment, with effective identification of student needs and valuable support from the school counsellor, though differentiation in lessons needs to be more consistent.
Areas for Development
- •Raise attainment so that it is at least good in all phases in Islamic Education and Arabic.
- •Improve the consistency of teaching, assessment and monitoring in Arabic.
- •Ensure that full use is made of assessment data to inform teaching, learning and curriculum adaptation.
- •Increase the rigour of self-evaluation so that leaders have an accurate picture of the school’s strengths and areas where improvement is needed.
- •Ensure all staff understand how to review and interpret accurately the results from the NGRT benchmarking assessments.
- •Build the capacity and skills of all teachers to support more effectively the improvement of students' reading literacy skills.
- •Increase opportunities for students to propose initiatives relevant to their own wellbeing.
- •Enhance students’ knowledge and skills in the areas of Fiqh and Seerah.
- •Ensure even coverage and assessment of all areas of the curriculum.
- •Implement rigorous assessment procedures to obtain accurate levels of students’ achievement in all language skills.
- •Improve conversational skills in all phases.
- •Improve students’ extended writing skills, particularly in the middle and secondary phases.
- •Improve students' knowledge and use of mathematical vocabulary.
- •Ensure all students are actively learning in group activities, to enable assessment of the understanding and progress of the whole group.
- •Ensure that all younger students fully understand specific scientific vocabulary used in lessons.
- •Integrate cross-curricular links more meaningfully in lessons.
- •Improve students’ enquiry, research and critical thinking skills in all subjects.
- •Ensure students have more opportunities to initiate their own projects and develop creative ideas.
- •Ensure teachers consistently plan learning activities that are matched to the different abilities of the students.
- •Ensure students are given time to respond to teachers’ comments on their written work and make any necessary amendments promptly.
- •Embed cross-curricular links more effectively to give additional relevance to students’ learning.
- •Implement curricular modifications more successfully, to cater for the full range of student abilities.
- •Improve the quality of differentiation in teachers’ planning and classroom implementation to secure consistently high progress for all groups of students.
- •Improve the consistency and effectiveness of differentiation in all lessons across.