The Indian Academy
Executive Summary
The overall quality of education provided by The Indian Academy is rated as Good. The school fosters a calm and purposeful learning atmosphere, significantly contributed to by students' excellent behavior and positive attitudes. There is a strong sense of community, with students and adults working well together in a climate of mutual respect.
Academically, students in KG achieve Very Good standards in English, mathematics, and science, with achievement in these subjects being at least Good in Primary, Middle, and Secondary. The curriculum is clearly aligned with CBSE objectives and incorporates best practices from the Early Years Framework. The school effectively promotes student wellbeing and ensures highly effective safety and security procedures, with strong inclusion practices for students of determination.
Leadership places a particular emphasis on building a strong school community, maintaining Outstanding links with parents, and achieving Outstanding results in National Agenda work. While leaders are held accountable for learning quality, there is a need for more rigorous procedures in this area to ensure consistently high-quality teaching and learning across all phases and subjects.
Overall School Performance
Outstanding
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Acceptable
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The Indian Academy Overall Rating
Good for 5+ 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 very good inclusive vision, actively welcoming students of determination with strong support from a well-qualified inclusion team. Effective on-entry assessment procedures identify a wide range of needs. Parents are highly satisfied with the care and support their children receive, noting positive changes in confidence and attitudes to learning. students of determinationinclusion teamon-entry assessment
Wellbeing is a prominent feature of the school's ethos, with leaders and a student-inclusive team proactively addressing the needs of students, staff, and parents. The school implements numerous highly effective wellbeing initiatives, such as the 'human library', fostering positive classroom climates where students feel secure and thrive. wellbeing initiativeshuman librarypositive classroom climates
The school has achieved outstanding results in the National Agenda Parameter, significantly exceeding its target in international reading literacy assessments. Progress in benchmark assessments for mathematics and science has improved to very good and outstanding respectively, with English maintaining its outstanding status. Leaders demonstrate a strong understanding of National Agenda requirements, focusing on reading and language acquisition to enhance student outcomes. International Assessmentreading literacybenchmark assessments
Key Highlights
Standout achievements identified by the inspection team that distinguish this school.
Strong Community Sense
The school fosters a strong sense of community where students and adults collaborate effectively in an environment of mutual respect.
Outstanding Parent Links
The school maintains outstanding communication and engagement with parents, keeping them well-informed and involved in their children's education.
Social Responsibility & Values
Students exhibit a well-developed sense of social responsibility, coupled with a keen awareness and respect for Islamic values and Emirati culture.
Wellbeing Emphasis
There is a strong emphasis on promoting the wellbeing and holistic personal development of all students within the school.
Outstanding National Agenda
The school demonstrates an outstanding quality of work and achievement related to the National Agenda targets and initiatives.
Academic Performance Breakdown
Leadership & Management
Effectiveness of school governance, strategic planning, and leadership capacity to drive continuous improvement.
Leadership Approach
The school is led by a dedicated and effective principal and senior leaders who share a common purpose and an agreed strategy for school improvement. They successfully communicate their vision to stakeholders and consult with them regularly, using comprehensive self-evaluation and external assessment data to drive future improvements.
Inspection Findings
Students' Outcomes
Students in KG achieve very good standards in English, mathematics, and science, while Primary, Middle, and Secondary achieve at least good in these subjects. Learning skills are very good in KG and good in other phases. Attainment in Islamic Education and Arabic (Additional) is acceptable, though Arabic attainment in Secondary remains weak.
Personal Development
Students demonstrate excellent behavior, contributing to a calm learning atmosphere, and are confident, sociable, and collaborative. They show very good understanding and respect for Islamic values and Emirati culture, with a well-developed sense of social responsibility and innovation skills.
Teaching Quality
The quality of teaching is at least good across all phases, and very good in KG, with teachers possessing secure subject knowledge. The curriculum is well-aligned with CBSE objectives, incorporating best practices and diverse choices to foster rich learning experiences, though consistency in differentiation needs improvement.
Protection & Care
Highly effective safety and security procedures are well-implemented, with safeguarding and child protection given high priority. The school promotes student wellbeing and healthy lifestyles, maintaining a positive and caring ethos that results in strong staff-student relationships and effective support for students of determination.
Areas for Development
- •Ensure consistently high-quality teaching and learning, across phases, classes and subjects.
- •Improve the use of assessment information to inform classroom provision, organisation and learning outcomes.
- •Improve the quality of provision in Islamic Education and Arabic so that achievement is at least good in all phases.
- •Hold leaders, at all levels, to account for the quality of learning, teaching and assessment at classroom level.
- •Improve individual teachers’ use of assessment data, to ensure that appropriate tasks are targeted towards addressing identified weaknesses.
- •Enhance the school’s self-evaluation of wellbeing and use this information, to help identify precisely the priorities for further improvement.
- •Improve students’ abilities to support their answers with evidence from the Holy Qur’an and Hadith.
- •Improve students’ oral skills by providing more opportunities for them to speak Arabic more freely.
- •Improve students’ Arabic writing skills through regular and systematic practice of writing on familiar topics.
- •Ensure that full use is made of assessment data to match learning activities to the needs of individual students.
- •Improve the consistency in the quality of teaching of English in the primary and middle phases.
- •Ensure teachers promote more active learning approaches in both Middle and Secondary.
- •Provide more opportunities for students to apply their scientific knowledge to everyday problems, fostering critical thinking and creativity.
- •Incorporate current scientific news and discoveries into lessons to engage students more fully into the relevance of science to the wider world.
- •Increase opportunities for students to use information technology to support learning.
- •Improve students’ awareness of a broader range of world cultures.
- •Provide more opportunities for students to express their creative and innovative skills.
- •Ensure that lesson planning identifies different groups of students and indicates clearly what provision is being made for them.
- •Improve the use of assessment information in lessons to accelerate students’ progress.
- •Provide more opportunities for independent learning and innovation for all learners.
- •Design tasks that challenge and match the abilities of all students, particularly, those who are gifted and talented.
- •Ensure greater consistency of support in classrooms to address the needs of all students of determination and especially those who are gifted and talented.
- •Ensure targets in advanced learning plans for gifted and talented students are specific and measurable.
- •Ensure feedback provided to students is clear and specific so that they have a better understanding of what they need to do to improve.
- •Ensure there is greater consistency in the delivery of planned interventions in all classrooms.
- •Ensure that leaders, at all levels, promote continuous improvement in teaching, learning and assessment.
- •Ensure that governors hold leaders, at all levels, fully accountable for the quality of the school’s provision.
- •Improve outdoor play facilities in KG.