Fairgreen International School
Executive Summary
Fairgreen International School provides a Good quality of education, operating with an IB curriculum. The school is recognized for its clear vision, strong focus on sustainability, and highly inclusive environment, fostering an internationally minded community.
Students demonstrate excellent behaviour and keen attitudes towards learning, with notable strengths in personal and social development. Academic progress is strong in English, mathematics, and science, particularly in the PYP and DP phases, while Islamic Education and Arabic remain areas for development.
The school excels in promoting wellbeing and ensuring the health, safety, care, and support of students, achieving Outstanding ratings in these areas. Leadership is committed to raising achievement and inclusion, supported by highly engaged parents and governors.
Overall School Performance
Outstanding
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Fairgreen International School Overall Rating
Good for 3+ 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 demonstrates a strong commitment to an inclusive ethos, with a well-considered policy and experienced inclusion team. Students of determination are formally identified, and their progress is effectively tracked through challenging targets and appropriate interventions, leading to very strong progress for a large majority. Students of Determinationinclusive ethosvery strong progress
Wellbeing is central to the school's vision, with robust improvement planning and effective promotion of policies. The school excels in engaging and supporting the wellbeing of students and staff, offering commendable individual care and guidance, and fostering positive attitudes and a sense of safety among students. individual and collective wellbeingcommendable individual carepositive attitudes
The school's 2021 PIRLS score exceeded its target, demonstrating achievement above the high international benchmark. While attainment in NAP English dropped, mathematics rose, and science was maintained at very good. The school's National Agenda action plan is ambitious, with improving signs in students' knowledge and skills. PIRLS score exceeded targetNational Agenda action planimproving knowledge and skills
Key Highlights
Standout achievements identified by the inspection team that distinguish this school.
Clear Vision & Inclusivity
Leaders have a clear vision for an internationally minded, sustainability-focused, and highly inclusive school, which is well understood by all stakeholders.
Excellent Wellbeing
The school provides excellent promotion of wellbeing and robust provision for the health, safety, care, and support of its students.
Excellent Personal Development
Students consistently demonstrate excellent personal and social development across all phases, fostering respectful relationships and active participation.
Strong Community Engagement
The school benefits from high levels of engagement from parents and the wider community, who are highly supportive of its initiatives.
Academic Performance Breakdown
The overall quality of education provided by the school is good.
Leadership & Management
Effectiveness of school governance, strategic planning, and leadership capacity to drive continuous improvement.
Leadership Approach
The leadership, led by a strong principal, is highly effective and committed to steadily improving provision and achievement. They prioritize raising achievement, inclusion, wellbeing, and sustainability, with thorough self-evaluation and improvement planning.
Inspection Findings
Students' Outcomes
Students' achievement is good overall, with very good progress in English, mathematics, and science in PYP and DP. Islamic Education and Arabic remain acceptable. Students demonstrate excellent behavior, keen attitudes, and strong learning skills, particularly in DP.
Personal Development
Students exhibit excellent behavior, mutual respect, and keen attitudes towards learning, fostering an inclusive environment. They show deep respect for UAE heritage and cultures, actively participate in leadership roles, and demonstrate strong social responsibility and innovation skills, contributing to the school's Green School Platinum status.
Teaching Quality
The quality of teaching is steadily improving, with notable strengths in PYP and DP due to effective lesson planning and understanding of student needs. Assessment is well-used to track progress, especially in PYP, though consistency in personalized learning and use of assessment data varies across phases.
Protection & Care
The school has comprehensive policies and rigorous procedures for safeguarding, child protection, and health and safety, all rated Outstanding. Premises are exceptionally well-maintained, and supervision is effective. Positive relationships, effective behavior management, and robust systems for identifying and supporting students of determination contribute to a very good level of care and support.
Areas for Development
- •As a matter of some urgency, raise students’ achievement in Islamic Education and Arabic.
- •Increase the consistency of teaching and learning across the school.
- •Rigorously monitor and review the implementation of school improvement plans to ensure that they are having a positive impact across all phases and subject areas.
- •Enter all students in the required grades for external benchmark tests in Arabic as a first language and in Arabic for additional language learners.
- •Ensure more consistent adaptations to the curriculum and teaching across phases and subjects to improve students' reading skills, particularly Emirati students.
- •Further develop the data gathering processes to better explore students’ current perspectives on wellbeing initiatives.
- •Leaders should rigorously monitor the quality and consistency of teaching to improve students’ achievement in Islamic Education.
- •Improve students’ recitation of the Holy Qur’an and their Tajweed skills.
- •Develop students' vocabulary and application of grammar to strengthen sentence structure and to improve their written and oral expression in Arabic as a first language.
- •Provide more opportunities for students to complete challenging tasks without too much teacher guidance in Arabic as a first language.
- •Develop students' free extended writing skills in Arabic as an additional language.
- •Improve the speaking skills of students, using correct sentence structures and applying correct grammar in Arabic as an additional language.
- •Improve students’ use of technology to support learning in English.
- •In MYP and DP, improve students' skills in reading comprehension, reasoning and multi-step calculations in problems involving an extended response in Mathematics.
- •Using assessment data, set higher expectations of what children can achieve in KG Mathematics.
- •Improve the frequency and planning of investigative work, especially in MYP Science.
- •Across all subjects, improve the range of learning opportunities that make learning more closely related to student's lived experiences.
- •Provide more opportunities for students to take the initiative in making a positive contribution to the wider communities.
- •Ensure more consistency in use of assessment data to influence teaching and progress, particularly in relation to providing sufficient challenge for higher attainers, most notably in KG and MYP.
- •Ensure full compliance with requirements for benchmark testing in Arabic by entering all required grades for these annual assessments.
- •Ensure that there is no overlap in students’ learning as they transition from PYP to MYP.
- •Strengthen links with Emirati culture in KG and provide more age-appropriate opportunities for children to be innovative and socially engaged.
- •Explore a range of alternative programmes to enhance the learning pathways available for students of determination.
- •Strengthen communication between school and home to ensure that parents have a greater understanding of their children’s personal development and achievement.
- •Further develop classroom teachers’ implementation of differentiated teaching approaches to ensure well-pitched levels of challenge.