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Dubai, UAE · Private
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Al Salam Private School & Nursery stands in Al Nahda 2 in Al Qusais, Dubai, and runs a British curriculum leading to Cambridge qualifications. The school names its own stages: the Early Years Foundation Stage, then the Cambridge International Primary Programme, then the Cambridge secondary stage with IGCSE examinations. The school says plainly that it wants a community reflecting the diverse society of the UAE, and it places children in classes by age. Its transport is its own and seriously run: a separate transport manager is in charge, the buses are serviced on a schedule, the school gives parents the drivers' telephone numbers so they can follow the route, and the manager himself is reachable by telephone around the clock. There is a nursery attached - it stands in the school's own name, and an application to it is made separately from a school application.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, IGCSE
Admissions The school places children in classes by age: "Students will be considered for admission into age-appropriate classes". The detailed admission procedure, the list of documents and the rules for setting a year group sit in a separate document, the Admissions Policy, and that did not open on this pass. An application to the nursery is made on a separate form, not the one used for the school.
Stages and year groups Grades Early Years Foundation Stage - secondary school with IGCSE examinations. The school lists its own stages: the Early Years Foundation Stage, then the Cambridge International Primary Programme, then the Cambridge secondary stage leading to IGCSE. On the pages read the school gives neither grade numbers nor ages by stage.
Address Al Nahda 2, Al Qusais
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary, IGCSE · authorised programmeschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: Primary (ages 5-11), IGCSE (ages 14-16). Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge. IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: Transport of its own with a separate transport manager: the buses are serviced on a schedule, the school gives parents the drivers' telephone numbers, and the manager answers parents' calls around the clock. The school describes no other premises on the pages read.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median65 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 7 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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