Safieh Bint AbdulMuttaleb Primary Independent School for Girls

Educational Plan
Educational Goals
School Operator
Contact Information

Educational Plan

School Mission
Our elementary school is dedicated to serving girls from Kindergarten – Grade 6. The school will provide a safe, healthy, innovative, exciting, fulfilling, and caring learning environment. There will be great focus on acquiring and strengthening students’ thinking skills. We believe in an integrated cooperative learning community consisting of students, parents, teachers, school management, local community, and the society as a whole.

Each student will develop a strong character, represented by caring adults and reflecting those values cherished by the Qatari society. Each student will be able to build a cultural identity that reflects a rich Arab and Islamic heritage, which encourages good basic moral and ethical values.

Our students will enjoy a quality education that focuses on academic excellence, and nurtures superior behavioral values and attitudes to become life-long learners and responsible citizens. Our program will facilitate this process by:

• Enabling each child to master the basic academic skills in all subjects to her full potential, including the minimum achievement of meeting the national standards in all required subjects.
  
• Educating students in the usage of IT for education purposes as well as daily needs
  
• Encouraging each child to become independent in her attitudes and intrinsically motivated learning habits.
  
• Cultivating our girls’ self esteem, confidence, and raise their level of personal expectations.
  
• Fostering a love for learning by developing leisure activities that each child will enjoy.
  

The curriculum will be broad and balanced, matched to the needs of each student. Through the study of Arabic, Islamic studies and Social Studies, students will develop respect for, pride in and an understanding of their unique culture and heritage as well as the value of other cultures. The mastery of English language will be emphasized through teaching many subjects in English as the main language of instruction in our school. We will match provision to need, using our resources and teaching styles effectively. We recognize technological advancement, and will help our girls meet the technological demands of today’s society through a clearly defined and integrated computer education program. We will make our school stand and be a leader this area.

Our employees are the heart of the organization. We believe in developing human capital, especially national teachers and staff. Our dedicated employees will be highly qualified, superbly talented, and motivated individuals. They will represent professionalism and commitment to excellence in education for all students.

Parents want the best for their children and we want the best out of parents. They serve as a bridge between the school and home environments, ensuring that teaching and learning enrich the child’s daily existence. Parents will play an integrated role and share the responsibility in educating their children.

The school feels that it is essential to establish a climate of mutual understanding and an integrated relationship with community. This will be accomplished by addressing students, community needs and expectations. Parents are an important link in creating an effective school-community partnership. The school will aim to strengthen the existing school program through the greater involvement and utilization of available community resources. Also, the school will be a focal point to satisfy the needs of the community using the school resources.

Our school will be a place where educators, parents, and the greater community come together to refine our most important national resource, our children.

Educational Goals
The school will strive to achieve its educational goals and aims through the core subjects, other subjects, cross-curricular and extra-curricular activities. It is very important to ensure that school efforts are targeting these goals because they will reflect on students’ performance inside and outside the school. We believe that fulfilling these goals will enable our students to be successful after attending our school, because our curriculum:

• Focuses on the academic and non-academic skills.
  
• Helps teachers present their lessons using effective teaching strategies.
  
• Concentrates on low and high achieving students equally.
  
• Provides a wide range of leisure activities where students will develop their skills.
  
• Pays attention to the importance of parental involvement.
  

The school’s primary instructional goals include:

• Enabling each child to master the basic academic skills in all subjects to her full potential, including the minimum achievement of meeting or exceeding the national standards in all required subjects.
  
• Developing a student's ability to think, reason and use information constructively and creatively.
  
• Making parents partners in school success by maximizing their involvement in school academic programs, school-wide evaluation, activities, festivals, and assemblies.
  
• Integrating IT across curriculum areas by teaching students how they can best use technology throughout the learning process.
  
• Nurturing physical fitness and skills through a development-appropriate program.
  
• Encouraging each child to become independent in her attitudes and to develop intrinsically motivated learning habits.
  

The school’s affective goals include:

• Building a generation that believes in Allah, reserves national identity and shows appreciation for Arab, Islamic and human cultures through cross curriculum activities and special sessions.
  
• Developing in students those moral attitudes and values respected and cherished by our society.
  
• Helping students gain a feeling of her own worth by developing her confidence, self-respect and feeling of pride in her own accomplishments.
  
• Fostering a love for learning by developing leisure activities that each child will enjoy
  
• Widening student’s appreciation for beauty and a taste for the arts, music and drama.
  

These goals could be discussed, reviewed and revised by operators and top management team of school in the beginning of the school year 2005/2006. A new set of goals may be suggested using input from parent, students, teachers and staff.

School Operator: Mrs. Hala Jasim Al Bahr

Contact Information:
P.O. Box: 45458, Doha – Qatar
Tel:4501685 - 4501687
Fax:4501620
Email: safyia@sec.gov.qa
Website: www.safieh.com