Victory Heights Primary School, Dubai
KHDA Inspection Report & Ratings 2019
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Executive Summary
Victory Heights Primary School L.L.C continues to provide an Outstanding quality of education, maintaining its high standards. The school is highly regarded for its commitment to student development and academic excellence, supported by strong leadership and a vibrant learning environment.
Students consistently achieve extremely high outcomes in English, Mathematics, and Science across both Foundation Stage and Primary phases, underpinned by very high-quality teaching and effective assessment. The curriculum is broad, balanced, and enriched with innovative approaches, fostering critical thinking and personal growth. Significant progress has also been noted in Islamic Education.
The school demonstrates outstanding personal and social development among students, who exhibit positive behavior, excellent attitudes, and a strong sense of social responsibility. A very strong focus on wellbeing, coupled with fully inclusive practices for students of determination, ensures excellent care, support, and security for all members of the school community. Leadership and governance are highly effective, driving continuous improvement.
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Victory Heights Primary 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.
The school demonstrates an outstanding commitment to inclusive education, driven by an inspiring vision from governors and leaders. Meticulous identification processes, high-quality teaching, and strong parental partnerships ensure that students of determination make more than expected progress through tailored support and bespoke learning pathways. students of determinationbespoke learning pathwaysparental partnerships
Wellbeing provision and outcomes are outstanding, with a very strong culture permeating the school community. Leaders, staff, and student wellbeing ambassadors actively promote a vision of 'Nurture, Challenge and Excel', supported by robust assessment and an inspirational curriculum that fosters commitment, engagement, and resilience. Nurture, Challenge and ExcelWellbeing Ambassadorwellbeing curriculum
The school's overall standards in the National Agenda Parameter are outstanding, having exceeded its PIRLS targets in 2021 and maintained outstanding achievement in national benchmark assessments for English, Mathematics, and Science. Leaders effectively use assessment data to adapt the curriculum and improve reading literacy, though further refinement of action plans is recommended. PIRLSnational benchmark assessmentsreading literacy
Key Highlights
Standout achievements identified by the inspection team that distinguish this school.
Excellent Leadership & Governance
The school benefits from excellent leadership and targeted support from the governing body, which has significantly contributed to its sustained outstanding performance.
High Student Outcomes
Students achieve high outcomes in English, Mathematics, and Science, supported by very high-quality teaching, effective assessment, and curriculum adaptations.
Outstanding Personal Development
Students demonstrate outstanding personal and social development, exhibiting positive attitudes, strong self-discipline, and an excellent understanding of Islamic values and world cultures.
Strong Wellbeing Focus
The school places a very strong focus on wellbeing, providing excellent care, support, and security for all students and staff.
Inclusive Education Commitment
There is a strong commitment from staff and parents to support and involve children in their inclusive education journey.
Academic Performance Breakdown
Students' achievements in English medium core subjects are consistently extremely high across both phases. Significant improvements have been noted in Islamic Education, while Arabic language subjects require further development to achieve desired impact.
Leadership & Management
Effectiveness of school governance, strategic planning, and leadership capacity to drive continuous improvement.
Leadership Approach
The leadership team is highly effective, distributing roles and responsibilities well, and possessing a thorough understanding of the school. They plan for improvement successfully in partnership with parents and students, supported by an excellent governing body, creating a vibrant learning environment that promotes academic and personal growth.
Inspection Findings
Students' Outcomes
Students' achievements in English, Mathematics, and Science are consistently extremely high. Progress in Islamic Education has improved, though attainment in Arabic subjects requires further development. Students demonstrate positive behavior and excellent attitudes, embracing the country's culture and acting as good role models.
Personal Development
Students exhibit outstanding personal and social development, showing positive attitudes, self-discipline, and courteous relationships. They have a strong understanding of Islamic values, Emirati culture, and global awareness. Students also demonstrate exemplary social responsibility, actively contributing to school and wider communities, and leading sustainability projects.
Teaching Quality
Teaching for effective learning is outstanding, with most teachers using expert knowledge to plan purposeful and inspiring activities that build on prior learning. Skilful questioning encourages deep and critical thinking. Assessment processes are consistent and coherent, rigorously tracking progress and identifying learning gaps, though marking consistency could be improved.
Protection & Care
The school provides outstanding protection, care, guidance, and support for students. Robust child protection and safeguarding procedures are thoroughly understood and regularly reviewed. A strong culture of wellbeing is embedded, with secure systems for identifying and supporting students of determination, ensuring their academic and personal progress.
Areas for Development
- •Improve students’ achievements in the Arabic language subjects.
- •Ensure teaching practices in Arabic and Islamic education are fully focused on the development of linguistic skills and approaches.
- •For Arabic first language learners, ensure teachers explicitly link learning objectives to Ministry of Education (MoE) curriculum standards and effectively monitor students’ achievements against these standards.
- •For Arabic additional language learners, support teachers with the challenge of meeting the needs of a wide range of abilities.
- •Raise outcomes in reading assessments even further.
- •Construct a National Agenda action plan with clearer timescales and more measurable targets.
- •Build even more opportunities for student wellbeing committee members to play an even greater role in the development of student-led wellbeing initiatives.
- •Improve students' abilities to recite the Holy Qur'an and Noble Hadith accurately and fluently.
- •Extend strategies to improve outcomes for boys in writing.
- •Increase the use of practical resources in upper Primary to provide an additional way of exploring abstract concepts.
- •Ensure that independent enquiry-based activities are embedded consistently across all year groups.
- •Provide more opportunities for children in Foundation Stage to use technology independently to find things out for themselves.
- •Extend the range of extra-curricular opportunities to further promote students’ creativity.
- •Ensure that learning objectives and success criteria are clearly identified and shared with students in all lessons.
- •Strengthen teachers’ marking and feedback to students and ensure that it is consistently applied across all subjects.
- •Include more explicit and meaningful links with UAE culture and society within the core subjects, especially in Primary.
- •Regularly evaluate provision in order to adapt to the changing needs of different groups of students entering the school.
- •Consider expanding the programme of bespoke learning pathways even further for students with more complex needs.