Repton Foundation School, Abu Dhabi
ADEK Inspection Report & Ratings
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Executive Summary
Repton Foundation School has maintained its overall Outstanding rating in the latest ADEK Irtiqa inspection for the 2024-2025 academic year. The school, following the British curriculum, demonstrates exceptional performance across all key areas, building on its significant achievements and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Students consistently achieve outstanding levels of progress, particularly in Mathematics, Science, and Arabic as a first language, with notable improvements in Arabic achievement in Foundation Stage 2. Teaching and assessment are highly effective, leading to excellent learning skills and strong academic outcomes across all subjects. The curriculum is imaginatively designed with strong cross-curricular links, preparing students exceptionally well for future education.
The school's leadership is described as outstanding and visionary, effectively driving improvements and sustaining high standards. Comprehensive support systems ensure high levels of student well-being, health, and safety. Students exhibit exemplary attitudes, behavior, and a strong sense of social responsibility, contributing actively to both school life and the wider community.
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Repton Foundation School Overall Rating
Outstanding
ADEK Performance Standards
The six Irtiqa inspection standards used by ADEK to evaluate school performance across Abu Dhabi.
Students consistently demonstrate outstanding attainment and progress across all subjects, particularly in Mathematics, Science, and Arabic as a first language. Learning skills are highly developed, with students showing strong engagement and responsibility for their own learning. Significant improvements in Arabic achievement in Foundation Stage 2 have been noted. MathematicsScienceArabic as a first languageLearning Skills
Students exhibit exemplary attitudes, behavior, and a strong sense of responsibility, tolerance, and mutual support. They demonstrate an excellent understanding of Islamic values, Emirati, and world cultures, actively contributing to school life and the wider community through social responsibility and innovation skills. Islamic valuesEmirati culturesocial responsibilityinnovation skills
Teaching is highly effective, characterized by excellent subject knowledge, imaginative lesson planning, and creative use of resources. Assessment practices are coherent and consistent, providing valid data to inform planning and ensure all students, including those with additional learning needs, make high levels of progress. subject knowledgelesson planningassessment dataICT
The curriculum is imaginatively designed, continuously reviewed, and innovatively planned with strong cross-curricular links. It ensures seamless progression, excellent preparation for future education, and tailored provision to meet the academic and personal needs of all students. cross-curricular linkstailored provisionBritish curriculum
The school provides comprehensive support and resources, ensuring high levels of well-being, health, and safety for all students and staff. Child protection and safeguarding policies are outstanding, with effective programs like WellComm introduced to support bilingual and multilingual students and English Language Learners. Health and safetychild protectionsafeguardingWellComm
Leadership at all levels is outstanding and visionary, effectively addressing previous recommendations and driving continuous improvement. The Senior Leadership Team and Board of Governors work tirelessly to sustain high standards, providing targeted professional development and refining communication systems with parents. visionary leadershipself-evaluationgovernancecontinuous improvement
Key Highlights
Standout achievements identified by the inspection team that distinguish this school.
Outstanding Progress
Students achieve outstanding levels of progress, particularly in Mathematics, Science, and Arabic as a first language.
Exemplary Student Development
Students exhibit exemplary attitudes, behavior, tolerance, respect, and a strong sense of social responsibility.
Highly Effective Teaching
Teaching is highly effective, utilizing excellent subject knowledge and assessment to foster outstanding learning skills.
Imaginative Curriculum
The curriculum is imaginatively designed with strong cross-curricular links, tailored to meet all students' academic and personal needs.
Comprehensive Safeguarding
The school provides comprehensive support for well-being, health, and safety, with outstanding child protection and safeguarding policies.
Visionary Leadership
The school benefits from outstanding and visionary leadership that promotes a culture of continuous improvement and high standards.
Academic Performance Breakdown
Students across both Foundation Stage and Primary phases consistently achieve levels above curriculum standards, demonstrating outstanding progress in core subjects like Mathematics, Science, and Arabic. While some subjects like Islamic Education and English in Year 1 are Very Good, the overall academic performance is Outstanding.
Leadership & Management
Effectiveness of school governance, strategic planning, and leadership capacity to drive continuous improvement.
Leadership Approach
The leadership team at Repton Foundation School is characterized by its visionary and highly effective approach, consistently driving improvements and sustaining outstanding standards. They prioritize targeted professional development for teachers, refine communication with parents, and ensure all recommendations from previous inspections are addressed, demonstrating an outstanding capacity for further school enhancement.
Inspection Findings
Students' Achievement
Students consistently attain levels above curriculum standards and make better than expected progress across all subjects. Notable strengths include outstanding progress in Mathematics, Science, and Arabic as a first language, with highly developed learning skills across all phases.
Personal & Social Development
Students demonstrate highly positive attitudes, excellent behavior, and a strong sense of responsibility. They show an outstanding understanding of Islamic values and awareness of Emirati and world cultures, actively contributing to the community through social responsibility and innovation.
Teaching & Assessment
Teaching is highly effective, with teachers possessing excellent subject knowledge and employing imaginative, purposeful lessons. Assessment processes are coherent and consistent, providing valid data that is effectively used to inform planning, differentiate instruction, and ensure high levels of student progress.
Curriculum Design & Adaptation
The curriculum is continuously reviewed and innovatively planned with strong cross-curricular links, ensuring seamless progression and excellent preparation for future education. It is well-adapted to meet the academic and personal needs of all students, fostering curiosity and independence.
Protection, Care & Support
The school maintains outstanding health and safety standards, including robust child protection and safeguarding arrangements. Comprehensive care and support are provided to students, with effective programs in place for bilingual and multilingual learners and students of determination, ensuring high levels of well-being.
Areas for Development
- •Improve and sustain students’ standards of achievement across the core-curriculum subjects by engaging students in opportunities to link Islamic concepts to their every-day real life situations, improving students’ memorization and recitation of the Holy Qur’an, improving the quality of students’ writing skills in English and Arabic across both phases to a consistently outstanding level, supporting students with additional learning needs including students of determination in accelerating their progress across the core curriculum subjects, promoting students’ confidence in articulating their learning using subject specific vocabulary in mathematics and science, and increasing opportunities for students to independently carry out hands-on scientific investigations.
- •Ensure consistency in the Outstanding quality of Teaching and Assessment across the school by ensuring all students fully understand what they need to do to improve their work, further improving the quality of differentiation in Arabic medium subjects, actively promoting and providing opportunities for students to develop their entrepreneurial skills, ensuring that more able students have appropriate challenge to further extend their learning and that students with additional learning needs are supported to make at least Very Good levels of progress, and seeking to benchmark students’ attainment across all core-curriculum subjects.
- •Sustain the outstanding aspects and further improve leadership; governance; management of facilities and resources by ensuring the school’s self-evaluation is more accurately linked to the improvement plan, continuing to provide targeted training for teachers ensuring consistency in overall teaching quality across the school, closely monitoring the strategies and support systems in place to ensure that all groups of students make high levels of progress across all subjects, ensuring the school has a variety of natural materials available for student use in classrooms and specialty areas, and carrying out the plans to further developing the outdoor play areas.