Nord Anglia International School
Executive Summary
Nord Anglia International School L.L.C provides an Outstanding quality of education, maintaining its high standards while successfully managing significant growth. The school is underpinned by a clear vision and expert leadership, ensuring excellent support for student wellbeing and strong partnerships with parents.
Students achieve exceptionally well in English, mathematics, and science across all phases, supported by high-quality teaching that inspires and engages. The creatively designed curriculum, offering extensive extra-curricular activities, fosters impressive academic achievement and strong performances in arts and sport.
The school prioritizes students' welfare and wellbeing, with thorough safeguarding procedures and excellent care and support, particularly for students of determination. A welcoming and vibrant environment, coupled with strong corporate board support and excellent facilities, further enhances the learning experience.
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Nord Anglia International School L.L.C Overall Rating
Outstanding 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.
Governors and leaders demonstrate a captivating vision for inclusion, ensuring high-quality resources, facilities, and teaching lead to improvements in students’ personal and academic outcomes. Rigorous identification processes and strong partnerships with parents ensure meaningful and supportive learning interventions for students of determination. students of determinationrigorous identification processespartnerships with parents
The school demonstrates inspirational leadership and high commitment to wellbeing, with significant investment in staff and student support. A strong team of wellbeing leaders, staff, and counsellors, along with influential student wellbeing champions, fosters a positive and respectful ethos. The lively wellbeing curriculum, innovative programs, and broad range of activities nurture engagement, resilience, and character development. inspirational leadershipstudent wellbeing championslively wellbeing curriculumengagement, resilience and character development
The school has successfully exceeded National Agenda targets for international assessments, with an average PIRLS score of 616. Senior and middle leaders effectively address knowledge gaps, particularly in reading, and strategically bolster international assessments. Strong emphasis on reading literacy from FS onwards, with numerous programs, has led to high scores on standardised assessments and significant improvement in Emirati students' reading proficiency. National Agenda targetsinternational assessmentsPIRLSreading literacyEmirati students' reading proficiency
Key Highlights
Standout achievements identified by the inspection team that distinguish this school.
Expert Leadership & Wellbeing
The school benefits from clear vision and expert leadership, prioritizing student wellbeing and fostering strong partnerships with parents to create an inclusive environment.
High-Quality Teaching
Teachers consistently deliver high-quality instruction that effectively inspires and deeply engages students in their learning across all phases.
Vibrant FS Environment
Children in the Foundation Stage thrive in a welcoming and vibrant environment that significantly promotes rapid progress across all areas of their learning and development.
Creative Curriculum & Activities
A creatively designed curriculum, complemented by an extensive range of extra-curricular activities, supports students' impressive academic achievements and high-quality performances in arts and sport.
Strong Governance & Resources
The school benefits from strong support from its corporate board and advisory council, alongside excellent facilities and resources that significantly enhance the learning experience.
Academic Performance Breakdown
Leadership & Management
Effectiveness of school governance, strategic planning, and leadership capacity to drive continuous improvement.
Leadership Approach
Senior leaders provide a very clear vision for the future direction of the school, successfully managing significant growth while ensuring high-quality provision. They employ effective self-evaluation procedures to guide improvement planning, supported by highly engaged parents and contributing governors.
Inspection Findings
Students' Outcomes
From the Foundation Stage onwards, students achieve exceptionally well in English, mathematics and science. Their learning skills are very strong across the school. While progress in Islamic Education and Arabic (First Language) is good, attainment is acceptable. Students' achievement in Arabic as an additional language is good in Primary and acceptable in Secondary.
Personal Development
Students' considerate and respectful behaviour contributes significantly to a positive learning atmosphere, fostering excellent personal development. They demonstrate responsible attitudes, a desire to learn, and a strong appreciation for Islamic values and UAE culture. Students are keen to take on leadership roles, showcasing innovation and enterprise.
Teaching Quality
High-quality teaching successfully engages students across all phases, with exceptional responsiveness to children's needs in FS. Accurate assessment information is effectively used to plan lessons tailored to students' learning needs, ensuring high-quality support for all learners, including students of determination.
Protection & Care
Students' welfare and wellbeing are a high priority, supported by thorough safeguarding procedures, clear policies, and appropriate staff training. Supervision is effective, ensuring students' safety at all times. Healthy living is promoted, and high-quality care and support are provided, with excellent provisions for students of determination.
Areas for Development
- •Explore opportunities for extending students’ knowledge and understanding of Emirati culture, heritage and traditions through the core subjects.
- •Broaden the range of alternative curriculum pathways to cater for a wider range of students’ interests and needs.
- •Build on the improvements made by Emirati students in reading and benchmark assessments to close any performance gaps with other students.
- •Further extend opportunities for student wellbeing committee members to play an even greater role in the development of student-led wellbeing initiatives.
- •Improve students’ ability to support their answers and findings with evidence from the Holy Qur’an and Hadith.
- •Ensure that students are provided with appropriate linguistic models to support the development of their speaking and writing skills.
- •Continue to ensure that learning objectives are linked to the curriculum expectations related to students’ years of studying Arabic.
- •Reduce the use of English in lessons in Secondary.
- •Provide more opportunities for students to share their work through class displays.
- •Ensure that students understand and respond to the marking of their work.
- •Consolidate links in science with other subjects and the related developments within the UAE.
- •Consolidate the self-initiated learning approaches into Year 1.
- •Improve younger students’ appreciation and understanding of the role and values of Islam within the UAE.
- •Explore further opportunities for extending students’ innovative and entrepreneurial skills through links with the business community.
- •Ensure that, in all lessons, teachers provide students with regular opportunities for independent learning.
- •Enhance students’ appreciation of the Emirati culture and UAE society through all core subject areas.
- •Remain vigilant to ensure all health and safety procedures in relation to the extension of the school building and the increased student numbers.