Primary Arabic Overview

The MOE curriculum for Arabic language is compulsory for all phases for the Arabs and Non-Arabs students. The curriculum aims to develop independent and competitive individuals who lead their learning journey by voicing their opinions without fear. Students are expected to become caring and compassionate individuals who are ready to take over anything that comes their way through a curriculum featuring structured play, self-regulation, inquiry, and performance-based tasks.

Teaching the MOE curriculum to our students will gain an understanding of the UAE’s heritage which helps enhance mutual understanding, peaceful co-existence, and cross-cultural harmony and tolerance, and keep the UAE National Identity as a clear focus.

The Arabic curriculum will introduce students to, and immerse students in, Arabic literature and Arab achievement as well as everyday communication and the functional language.

The curriculum will endeavor to engender ‘proficient users’ of Arabic with: · high levels of well-paced spoken interaction in the classroom · access to prose (fiction and nonfiction) and poetry · exploration of idioms, proverbs and approaches to storytelling.

All Phase comprises Year 2 to Y13. The subject of Arabic is including reading, comprehension, speaking, listening, writing, and grammar, which may be infused with the study of Islamic and Social studies in lessons through the use of the MOE curriculum. In all phases, students’ progress and attainment are monitored through the Cognitive Abilities Test (ABT), Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP), and Internal benchmarks that are used from the curricular resources to support and triangulate student data based on curricular standards for each grade. In addition, assessments are administered for each subject to check that skills and objectives have been achieved.

Primary Islamic Overview

The MOE curriculum for Islamic education is compulsory for all phases for the Muslim (Arabs and Non-Arabs) students.

The curriculum is built on exploring verses of the Quran, and the sayings of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). It aims to give pupils a clear, thorough understanding of Islamic teachings, moral behavior, and Islamic etiquette.

The curriculum is built on providing a comprehensive vision of Islam as a religion that regulates human life on all sides and ritualistic, economic, social, political, and cultural aspects.

The curriculum stems from a cognitive perspective that aims to focus on the ideas and values more than a focus on information where the aim of all its subjects is to communicate a value or an idea to the learners or train them on the way to access such idea or value, and not just to deliver a certain amount of information, so the learners can get the keys of knowledge.

Islamic education is including The values and objectives of Islam: Worship, Charity and The values of divine revelation, the Holy Quran, and The Sunnah the judgments and morals of Islam, Sharia, and Politeness. The fiducial mentality, Faith, and methodological mentality.

In all phases, students’ progress and attainment are monitored through the Cognitive Abilities Test (ABT), Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP), and Internal benchmarks that are used from the curricular resources to support and triangulate student data based on curricular standards for each grade. In addition, assessments are administered for each subject to check that skills and objectives have been achieved.

Primary Social Studies Overview

The MOE curriculum is compulsory for Social Studies for native speakers and non-native speakers is taught in Year 2 to Year 10.

The curriculum emphasizes attention to connections among the peoples and nations of the world, the impact of science and technology on societies and social development, and the responsibilities and privileges of living in a safe, stable, and secure society, i.e. good citizenship.

The Social Science curriculum aspires to equip young people with the ability to use knowledge of the past as part of the inspiration to develop new ideas in the present while planning for the future with innovation and creativity.

The Social Science for Non-Arabs curriculum aims to arm students with an awareness of the world around them to help them navigate and be successful in the future that those present today cannot even imagine, to make informed and reasoned decisions as members of a tolerant and culturally diverse society in an interdependent world.

In all Years 2 to 10, students’ progress and attainment are monitored through the Cognitive Abilities Test (ABT), Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP), and Internal benchmarks that are used from the curricular resources to support and triangulate student data based on curricular standards for each grade. In addition, assessments are administered for each subject to check that skills and objectives have been achieved.