INTRODUCTION

Shaikha Hessa Girls’ School (SHGS) is a national, private, and non-profit school that offers a bilingual education in Arabic and in English from Pre-school to Grade 12. This is in addition to French as a foreign language from Gr 4 to Gr8. The school is committed to providing high-quality education that fosters students’ personal, social, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic areas of development. Each individual student is provided with the support needed and is challenged to reach her full potential. To help our students meet the growing challenges, we optimize their learning opportunities through a wide range of extracurricular and after-school activities. In SHGS, we adopt the IB learner profile traits as school values for all students and staff to be Inquirers, Knowledgeable, Thinkers, Communicators, Principled, Open-Minded, Caring, Risk-Takers, Balanced and Reflective. While developing such attributes in our students, we encourage that Islamic and Arabic cultural values together with global citizenship are embedded in all aspects of our students’ school life, and in the larger community.

In SHGS, all stakeholders adhere to the school guiding statements and implement them to enhance the school’s performance and success.

 

 

SCHOOL VISION

“TOWARDS A BETTER FUTURE”

SCHOOL MISSION

Our mission is to promote leadership, critical thinking, and life-long learning in a secure, healthy, all-female environment by providing quality international programs in education to achieve students’ potential as individuals as well as global citizens with an emphasis on Arabic and Islamic values in an effective joint home-school partnership.

SCHOOL MOTTO

“REACH FOR SUCCESS”

SCHOOL VALUES

All members of the SHGS community strive to be:

Inquirers-They develops their natural curiosity.  They acquire the skills necessary to conduct inquiry and research and show independence in learning.  They actively enjoy learning and this love of learning will be sustained throughout their lives.

Knowledgeable–They explore concepts, ideas, and issues that have local and global significance.  In doing so, they acquire in-depth knowledge and develop understanding across a broad and balanced range of disciplines.

Thinkers–They exercise initiative in applying thinking skills critically and creatively to recognize and approach complex problems and make reasoned ethical decisions.

Communicators–They understand and express ideas and information confidently and creatively in more than one language and in a variety of modes of communication.  They work effectively and willingly in collaboration with others.

Principled–They act with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of fairness, justice, and respect for the dignity of the individual, groups and communities.  They take responsibility for their own actions and the consequences that accompany them.

Open-minded–They understand and appreciate their own cultures and personal histories, and are open to the perspectives, values and traditions of other individuals and communities.  They are accustomed to seeking and evaluating a range of points of view and are willing to grow from the experience.

Caring–They show empathy, compassion, and respect towards the needs and feelings of others.  They have a personal commitment to service and act to make a positive difference in the lives of others and to the environment.

Risk-takers–They approach unfamiliar situations and uncertainty with courage and forethought and have the independence of spirit to explore new roles, ideas, and strategies.  They are brave and articulate in defending their beliefs.

Balanced–They understand the importance of intellectual, physical, and emotional balance to achieve personal well-being for themselves and others.

Reflective–They consider their own learning and experience.  They can assess and understand their strengths and limitations to support their learning and personal development.

High-quality Learning

The definition of high-quality learning is created in a consultative way and we believe that it takes place when:

“individual students are actively engaged in their learning experience and empowered to demonstrate the 21st-century learner attributes as self-directed, confident individuals, active contributors, and responsible citizens.”

Intercultural Learning and Global Citizenship

SHGS identifies global citizens as those who Care for themselves, others and their environment, respect and celebrate similarities and differences among people and cultures. They also demonstrate leadership skills and are aware of local and global issues and contribute innovatively to resolve them. they participate in service-learning aiming to implement necessary action and creative solutions locally and globally.”

Digital Citizenship at SHGS

We aim to equip students with the skills and knowledge they will need to thrive in a dynamic future, within and beyond SHGS. We expect our students to:

  • Engage in a self-motivated process of lifelong learning in accessing changing technologies in preparation for a dynamic future.
  • Consider their own rights and responsibilities in engaging positively, competently, and critically with digital technologies
  • Develop the use of key skills, including literacy and communication, along with security, safety, and health and wellness aspects, with the aim of using digital resources independently.
  • Participate and communicate actively, respectfully, responsibly, and ethically at all levels in the digital environment.
  • Become discerning and skilled in selecting reliable, quality, digital resources to support their own self-identified learning needs.

GENERAL GOALS/ DOMAINS

EMBRACING CHANGE

Develop a school culture of innovation and change to keep the school improving.
  • Make innovation and change a priority in school planning and practices
  • Innovative leaders : SLT,HODs & coordinators ( leaders lead by example )
  • Promote leadership and teamwork through a dynamic team approach in all school areas where everyone knows the importance of collaborative work and is valued for his/ her role.

EMPOWERING TEACHERS

Teachers as 21st Century Skills Practitioners
  • Offer and promote a range of practical PD sessions and training on the characteristics of 21st-century teachers.
  • Disseminate 21ST successful approaches to teaching and learning through collaborative planning, in-house PD sessions, peer- observation, and teachers’ self-assessment.
  • Empower creative teachers by creating new appraisal systems and procedures with clear rubrics for rewarding 21st-century teachers.

ENABLING AND EMPOWERING STUDENTS
IN THEIR LEARNING

Reconcile the needs and interests of the individual students with the expectations of the local and global community.

Enhance students self-confidence through :

  • Promoting structured and inclusive approaches in all school practices to support students’ learning with clear indicators. ( curricular and extracurricular)
  • Increasing students motivation through differentiated instruction and authentic learning
  • -Focus on developing thinking skills with life and career skills to promote self-directed learning.
  • Integration of life/ career skills with thinking skills with clear indicators to develop successful local and global citizen
  • Enhancing information and media literacy to develop successful digital citizenship.

STUDENTS EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL WELL BEING

Improve academic achievements through deeper understanding of self and of others.
  • Enable students to adopt a healthy lifestyle & student’s overall health through effective implementation of children’s safeguarding policy.
  • Develop student’s relationships with family, peers, and teachers and students’ feelings about their social life.
  • Increase student’s proficiency in applying what they know to solve problems.
  • Celebrate student’s satisfaction, sense of purpose, self-awareness, and absence of emotional problems
  • Developing students’ attitudes towards themselves, learning, and the school through PASS and Cat 4GL Education Program..

FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

Secure Financial Resources to support Instruction and Services that Sustain a Quality Educational Operation
  • Pursue additional source of income by investing SHGS properties and land
  • Expanding the school’s budget for educational innovation, staff development, and new resources and facilities